Serhiy Alekseiev
Prevention and Control of Industrial Pollution
The legislative initiative aimed to establish effective control over air emissions and wastewater discharges from industrial facilities. The draft law was also a requirement of Ukraine’s European partners.
The new European standards are to be implemented with defined transitional periods in sectors such as energy, mineral processing industries, chemical industry, and waste management, including waste incineration.
Industrial facilities operating in the above-mentioned sectors will be required to introduce best available techniques and management practices.
The law also introduces the concept of an integrated environmental permit, which becomes mandatory for relevant industrial installations. Permits will define emission limits for substances as well as vibration, heat, noise, and other physical and biological factors released as a result of the installation’s activities, based on conclusions derived from best available techniques.
The law incorporates provisions of EU Directive 2010/75/EU on industrial emissions (integrated pollution prevention and control). Its implementation is one of the requirements for Ukraine’s EU accession process and one of the indicators of the Ukraine Facility program, which provides up to €50 billion in EU financial support.
The requirement from European partners emerged after Members of Parliament failed to support a similar government draft law (No. 4167) in 2021. At that time, abstentions were recorded from members of “For the Future,” “Batkivshchyna,” and a significant part of “European Solidarity.”
Draft law No. 11355 was supported by civil society organizations including the Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group, Environment People Law, Zero Waste, and others. During the vote, only the “Batkivshchyna” faction abstained, while all other factions and groups voted in favor.
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