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Governmental Decree No. 881 validating the Regulation on calculating and collecting fees for negative environmental impact and on recognizing as invalid some acts of the Government of the Russian Federation and a separate provision of an act of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Country/Territory
Russian Federation
Document type
Regulation
Date
2023
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Air & atmosphere, Environment gen., Waste & hazardous substances
Keyword
EIA Environmental fees/charges Emissions Business/industry/corporations Waste disposal Waste management Waste domestic sources Waste non-domestic sources Effluent waste water/discharge
Geographical area
Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific
Entry into force notes
This Governmental Decree enters into force on 1 September 2023.
Abstract

Regulation on calculating and collecting fees for negative environmental impact and exercising control for the correctness of its calculation, completeness and timeliness of its payment, as well as the calculation of quarterly advance payments. Negative impact fees are calculated and collected for the following types of negative impact on the environment: (a) emissions of pollutants into the atmospheric air from stationary sources; (b) discharges of pollutants into waterbodies; and (c) storage, disposal of production and consumption waste, including storage of industrial by-products recognized as waste. Payment for the negative impact must be made by legal persons and individual entrepreneurs engaged on the territory of the Russian Federation, the continental shelf Russian Federation and in the Exclusive Economic Zone of Russian Federation in the performance of economic and (or) other activities, having a negative impact on the environment, with the exception of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs carrying out business and (or) other activities exclusively at the objects of category IV, wherein: (a) waste disposal, with the exception of solid municipal waste, the persons obliged to pay the fee are legal entities and individual entrepreneurs generating waste in the process of their business activities; (b) disposal of solid municipal waste by persons, obligated to pay a fee, are regional operators performing treatment of municipal solid waste, operators performing treatment of municipal solid waste and disposal thereof; (c) disposal of animal by-products recognized as waste; (d) disposal of industrial by-products recognized as waste; and (e) disposal of overburden and enclosing rocks recognized as waste. In case of waste disposal on sites excluding negative impact on the environment and determined in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation in the field of waste management, fees for negative impact from waste disposal will not be charged.

Full text
Russian
Website
publication.pravo.gov.ru