Environmental Impact Assessment Implementation Bodies

3.4 Projects and materials subject to ecological expertise ( e.g. review for potential environmental consequences)

The following projects and materials (3) are subject to state ecological expertise:

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  Standard-legal acts, standard, technical, methodological and other documents regulating economic and other activities;
  

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  Investment, comprehensive and targeted socio-economic, scientific-technical, and other public programs associated with the use of natural resources;
  

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  General programs on area development, including free economic zones and areas characterized by special usage regime, as well as schemes of sector development;
  

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  State comprehensive schemes of nature protection and use of nature resources, including forest, water and other resources, as well as projects on areas’ environmental rehabilitation;
  

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  Pre-project and project documentation, including investment, construction, re-construction, enlargement, technical re-equipment, conservation and liquidation projects regardless of budgeted costs, institutional affiliation and forms of ownership, implementation of which could have an impact on the environment;
  

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  International treaties, contracts, and agreements concerning environmental protection and rational use of natural resources;
  

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  Pre-project and project documentation on accomplishment of economic activities in neighboring countries, or accomplishment of such an activity that requires use of natural objects (resources) shared with neighboring countries;
  

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  Documentation on new equipment, technologies, materials, substances, certified goods and services, including those purchased abroad;
  

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  Comprehensive environmental surveys of certain areas to prove their eligibility for acquiring status of specially protected natural areas, environmental disaster zones, and emergency environmental situation zones, as well as program on rehabilitation of these areas;
  

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  Documents, which form the basis for issuing licenses, permissions, and certificates on accomplishment of activity, capable of having negative effects for the environment;
  

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  Documents describing environmental conditions of particular regions, places or objects;
  

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  Draft standards on permitted limits of emissions and discharges to the environment, and waste disposal.
  

Territorial environmental protection departments (oblast or raion) provide for the following types of expert activity (7):

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  Participation in committees on selecting construction sites for installations having insignificantly harmful effect on the environment (units of social culture and consumer service, gas stations, technical service stations, farms, highways, hydro-land-reclamation installations, electricity lines of intra-rayon and intra-province importance, etc.);
  

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  Conduction of state ecological expertise of technical-economic statements (calculations), construction and reconstruction projects, draft admissible emission levels (AEL) and admissible discharge levels (ADL) of the above installations.
  

3.5 State Ecological Expertise Implementation

According to the Law (2) the State Ecological Expertise shall be conducted in accordance with an order established by specially authorized state body on ecological expertise (Article 9). The project initiator may be required to submit the following documents to facilitate state environmental expertise (review):

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  Document on assessment of environmental impacts of economic and other activity;
  
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  Decisions and/or documents proving that the intended activity was coordinated with appropriate specially authorized bodies of state control and local self-administration (e.g. building permits or operating licenses);
  
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  Decision of public ecological expertise if any.
  

Article 16 of the Law On Environmental Protection states that:

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  Ecological expertise shall be conducted in order to prevent possible harmful impact of intended economic and other activity to the environment.
  
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  Ecological expertise shall be accomplished on principles of its compulsory implementation prior to taking economic decisions, well-groundedness, independence, objectivity, legitimacy and transparency.
  
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  Implementation and financing of projects associated with use of natural resources without positive decision of state ecological expertise shall be prohibited.
  

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