President of Ukraine expects Clean Environment Office in Kryvy Rih to be ready this year
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky expects the readiness of the Clean Environment Office of the State Environmental Inspectorate in Kryvy Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region by the end of 2020, according to the department’s website with reference to its Head Andriy Maliovany.
“The head of state said he expects a real and visible result in solving the environmental problems of Kryvy Rih. This is about the opening of the Clean Environment Office of the State Environmental Inspectorate to strengthen environmental control over industrial facilities. He added that the preparation of the office before opening should be finished by the end of the year. For my part, I would like to say that this task is being carried out on schedule,” Maliovany said after a meeting with the participation of the president of Ukraine on the prospects for the development of the region.
According to him, at present, the internal repairs in the premises allocated for the office are already at the final stage. “Agreements have been signed to provide the office with necessary equipment. And by the end of the year the office will be ready for opening, and employees of the central office are planned to move there in early 2021,” Maliovany said.
According to the head of the State Environmental Inspectorate, the president also said that on his instructions, the State Environmental Inspectorate’s needs will be financed in 2021 in terms of paying court fees, organizing market supervision and ensuring the work of laboratories for 2021.
During the meeting, Maliovany also told about the voluntary payment of losses for air emissions by the enterprise of PJSC ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih. “Recently, the State Environmental Inspectorate counted millions of losses of PJSC ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, which the company paid in full on a voluntary basis,” he said.
