In Sumy region, the Buryn elevator paid 3,879,580 hryvnias in damages for excessive emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere from stationary sources during 9 months in 2017.
The company compensated the losses according to the court's decision, reports State Inspection Online on Telegram.
Buryn elevator is a branch of State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine.
Since the company did not voluntarily compensate for the damage caused, SEI turned to the prosecutor's office to represent the state's interests in court.
Litigation reached the point of cassation in the Supreme Court of Ukraine, and the State Inspection won the courts of all instances.
In August 2021, the Shevchenkiv department of the Internal Revenue Service in Kyiv opened enforcement proceedings. A year later, the debt, enforcement fee and costs of enforcement proceedings have already been paid in full.
The Buryn community received UAH 2,715,706 from the grain corporation, because the funds are distributed between the state and local budgets in a ratio of 30/70. The funds went to a special nature protection fund.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in Sumy region, the court ordered the agrarian enterprise State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine to pay 4 million hryvnias in damages for air pollution. The prosecutors proved that the enterprise without a special permit used 69 stationary sources emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, the court in Kyiv region forced municipal enterprise Komunalnyk from Vyshgorod district to pay UAH 13 million in damages to the state budget for the lack of critical equipment at the landfill near the village of Stari Petrivtsi.
