State Duma to consider the requirement on obligatory state expert approval of OSR plans

The issue of calling off the requirement on obligatory state environmental expert approval (SEEA) of oil spill response activities plans is to be discussed at the meeting of the State Council of the Russian Federation scheduled for the end of 2016. The meeting will be dedicated to improvement of environment protection measures and cleaning-up of accumulated environmental damage in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Sergeyev, Chairman of Russian Association of marine and river Bunker Suppliers, told IAA PortNews. He said that the first meeting of the working group on preparing of the State Council meeting was held within the framework of the XX St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

The draft law on calling off the requirement will be considered in the first reading by the State Duma on June 21, 2016. The draft law supported by the business community provides for return to previously used closed list of activities subject to SEEA. 

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