On Tuesday, August 6, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed Law No. 11355 “On Integrated Prevention and Control of Industrial Pollution.”
The fact that the document has already been signed by the head of state can be seen in his card on the parliament's website.
The Law “On Integrated Prevention and Control of Industrial Pollution” will come into force 12 months after the day following its publication.
This does not apply to paragraph 9 of Article 29 of the Law on Industrial Pollution, which comes into force on the day following the day of publication of this document. It contains the following requirements for the Cabinet of Ministers:
- In the 12-month period from the day following the date of publication of this law:
- ensure the adoption of normative legal acts necessary for the implementation of this law;
- to bring its normative legal acts into compliance with this law;
- ensure that the ministries and other central executive bodies review and cancel their normative legal acts that contradict this law.
- By January 1, 2025, develop the concept of a state target program to support enterprises implementing the best available technologies and management methods.
- In 2025, to inform the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine about the state of implementation of this law.
As EcoPolitic noted, in numerous materials devoted to the development of the law on industrial pollution, stakeholders warn about a number of factors that the law makers did not take into account when preparing this law. Among the main ones: unrealistically short deadlines for enterprises to carry out eco-modernization, lack of tools and sources of financing for industrial modernization, as well as complete detachment from the realities of wartime and the state of the economy after 2.5 years of war.
On July 16 Verkhovna Rada approved draft Law No. 11355 "On integrated prevention and control of industrial pollution". 256 people's representatives voted "for".
Earlier, on July 3, Ecopolitics reported that the ecocommittee agreed draft law No. 11355 on industrial pollution to the second reading. He became the "heir" of the European integration project of Law No. 6004-d, one of a number of projects under No. 6004, which lawmakers began working on as far back as 2021.
Even earlier, on June 20, Parliament passed based on the draft Law "On Integrated Prevention and Control of Industrial Pollution" No. 11355. It turned out to be practically identical to the European integration draft law No. 6004-d "On ensuring the constitutional rights of citizens to an environment safe for life and health", for the adoption of which the people's elected representatives lacked only one (!) vote on June 19.
