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As it became known“”, the White house is preparing a bill to oblige the entrepreneurs to be responsible for elimination of environmental damage from their activities and after the liquidation or bankruptcy. The reason tens of billions of rubles, which are now forced to pay for her budget. Although the government is considering only legal mechanisms such liability, and features of the registers relevant sites, departments already divided the future financial security of the new arrangements. In this question, how should the new regulation, yet a clear opinion and industry experts.According to “Kommersant”, the working group of representatives of the Ministry of environment, Ministry of energy, industry and trade, Ministry of economy, Ministry of construction, Ministry of Finance, RTN, Rosreestr and natural resources the government is preparing a bill to oblige the legal entities, their founders and entrepreneurs to be responsible for elimination of environmental damage after decommissioning or conservation of objects that have had a negative impact on the environment, or in case of liquidation or bankruptcy of their owners. The decision was taken at the end of April 2020 at a meeting with the branch Vice-Premier of Victoria Abramchenko on a study of the heritage left after the bankruptcy of the Baikal pulp and paper mill (BPPM), which the authorities do not understand for more than six years — the elimination of accumulated environmental damage from the activities of the enterprise is evaluated the Ministry of natural resources of the Irkutsk region in 6 billion. “While we are trying to eliminate the damage at such facilities, new BPPM,” said Mrs. Abramchenko in March 2020.This is not the only problem in Russia is not only not regulation the respective responsibilities and mechanisms for its implementation, but also the responsibilities of business when starting a hazardous facilities to prepare a plan of decommissioning and liquidation of possible accumulated damage, and from the registry of hazardous production facilities of Rostechnadzor you can go just on the statement, says “Kommersant” one of the panelists in the White house. “We need to focus on mechanisms to prevent environmental harm and to provide a real responsibility and duty of owners of industrial enterprises to eliminate accumulated environmental damage”— said the goal of the White house in the office of Mrs. Abramchenko, adding that while we are talking only about legal arrangements — to talk about financial there think premature. The draft law was supposed to be June 22, but work continues, in particular, according to “Kommersant”, discussed the need to oblige the owners when reselling the plots or the bankruptcy of companies to carry out their environmentalcue the audit.Brakes work on the project, the preparation of its financial-economic justification: for example, the Ministry of industry, Ministry of energy and the authorities of subjects of the Russian Federation until the end of July 2020 is mandated to conduct an inventory of all objects of negative effects belonging to the bankrupt company or loved ones to this condition. At the same time, the Rosprirodnadzor and Rostechnadzor is entrusted to ensure mutual access to registers, which in the first case, there are objects of the negative impact on the environment, in the second, dangerous production, waterworks and conclusion on industrial safety of objects. The response of Rosprirodnadzor on this order of 19 June (there is a “b”) the Agency proposes to combine both the information base on a single platform, adding data to it FGIS “Automated licensing system of subsoil users”, and also says it is willing to open up his base of Rostechnadzor and complains that in response colleagues are willing to give them access to only certain data. Rostekhnadzor in its reply (may have a “b”) reports that its base in improvement is not needed, and asks what data is required from him.Note that, although the order of Deputy Prime Minister require the working group’s first conceptual design of the new regulation, departments have already begun the struggle for its resource security. So, Rostechnadzor is already offering to “improve” the mechanisms of liability insurance, to establish a compensation or reclamation funds (including at the stage of licensing of mining) with the introduction of a progressive scale of contributions depending on the wear and tear and to tighten administrative responsibility. A similar initiative was made by the Ministry of natural resources (see page 5). The same Ministry of industry and trade “Kommersant” said yesterday that the Ministry sent the proposal to use subjects of the Russian Federation for the elimination of accumulated damage “of funds from charging fees for negative impact on the environment.” The volume of their revenues for the whole of 2018 was a little more than 13 billion rubles (see “Kommersant” on 23 March 2019), with an annual spending budget, for example, of St. Petersburg, on the landfill “Krasny Bor” 12 billion rubles, the Finance Ministry is strongly opposed to “coloring” of budget funds and the creation of a separate budget from state funds.Respondents ‘ b ‘ experts, the HSE, the Agency’s ACRE, KPMG and “Business Russia” (the European Commission initiative of the government do not comment) agree that the problem of overdue. The Deputy head of profile Committee of “Business Russia” Natalia Belyaeva notes that “such regulation should be, although the business won’t like it”. The creation of the Fund, most experts believe disastrous idea. “Strict control of availability of funds for re��ultimacia the new buyer of the assets held in the terminal stage of development, could reduce the scale of the problem, says Maxim Hudalov, head of risk assessment group sustainable development of ACRE.— Correct it would be not to introduce new fees and adjust the implementation of the rules on reclamation lands.” Boris Morgunov from the HSE believes that the most effective solution to this problem would be a regulation mechanism when it is improved. “The EU relevant issues regulated by the state, but rules that depend on the level of potential danger, not the creation of government funding,” he notes. Director of group operational risk and sustainable development KPMG Vladimir Lukin, in turn, said that the mechanism of SRO opaque, and the distribution of money by the Fund under the audit and public accountability could be effective.Alexey Shapovalov