The new service for issuing online permits for air pollutant emissions on the Ecosystem platform only allows for the possibility of specifying the industrial site where the emission sources are located and does not have forms for entering other information required by law.
This was stated by activists of the NGO SaveDnipro.
They took part in the beta testing of the new service announced on 5 September by the Ministry of Environment. The ministry invited the public to check how the procedure for issuing permits for pollutant emissions from stationary sources of Group 1, 2, 3 will work in the peopleless mode (without an official).
Screenshot from eco.gov.ua.
Activists reminded that obtaining a permit for emissions is a multi-level procedure, the requirements for which are prescribed in the legislation.
"If you are a business entity, you must submit all the prescribed information, accompanying documents, draw up, sign and submit a statement, etc. Instead, in the presented version of the "Beta-test" you can only specify the location, then click "Next" twice and that's it – "The application is signed", – they stated in confusion.
SaveDnipro noted that the system did not request data on emissions, period, or values from the certificate of background pollution, which is mandatory information for issuing a permit for the release of pollutants into the atmosphere.
"In other words, you have a digital service in front of you, in which there is a complete lack of functionality," – this is the conclusion drawn by the activists.
They also noted that they did not find tools for the public either.
"Then why did the Ministry of Environment put this "empty" product for testing? Did you hope that no one would pay attention and see what was inside? ” – they ask a reasonable question in SaveDnipro.
Activists recalled that last week they drew attention to errors in the report automatically generated by the Ministry of Environment based on data from the National Register of Emissions and Transfer of Pollutants (PRPZ). Also, in their opinion, many complaints are caused by the new version of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) register. The NGO considers it worse than the previous one.
"So a natural question arises: does the Ministry of Environment have enough institutional capacity to develop and support digital services?" – stated the activists.
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