Ukrainians have been given access to eco-information

In Ukraine, environmental information, in particular regarding air quality, permit documents, deforestation, etc., will once again be open to the public.

The Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, Ruslan Strilets, signed the corresponding order No. 290 "On some issues of publicizing open data of the Ministry of Environment", according to the official website of the department.

As you know, partial or complete closure of access to environmental information occurred after a full-scale invasion.

The order provides that environmental information will be regularly published on the Unified state web portal of open data. The data will be updated regularly depending on the specified frequency, namely annually, quarterly, monthly, etc.

Now 56 different environmental data sets will be open again, including:

1. List of pesticides and agrochemicals approved for use;
2. Limits on the special use of natural resources within the territories and objects of the nature reserve fund of national significance;
3. List of permits for emissions of polluting substances into atmospheric air by stationary sources of objects of groups 1, 2, 3 with an indication of the number and validity period;
4. Register of environmental auditors and legal entities entitled to carry out an environmental audit;
5. List of objects that are the biggest polluters of the environment in Ukraine in terms of air emissions;
6. State cadastre of territories and objects of the nature reserve fund;
7. Red and Green books;
8. Unified register on environmental impact assessment;
9. Calculated loggers;
10. Norms for shooting game animals assigned to the state hunting fund for the hunting season
11. Register of waste declarations
12. Data of the state environmental monitoring system;
13. List of objects that are the biggest polluters of the natural environment in terms of discharge of pollutants into water bodies;
14. Activity plan of the Ministry of Environment for the preparation of projects of regulatory acts
15. List of regulatory acts of the Ministry of Environment;
16. Register for monitoring, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions;
17. National Register of Emissions and Transfer of Pollutants.

As EcoPolitic previously reported, environmentalists in Ukraine criticized the initiative of the Ministry of Digital Transformation to close access to environmental information during martial law.