Greenhouse gas emissions in Ukraine will be monitored by state environmental inspectorate from 2021
The State Environmental Inspectorate of Ukraine starting from next year will begin to verify the reliability of reports on greenhouse gas emissions
KYIV. Dec 8 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The State Environmental Inspectorate of Ukraine starting from next year will begin to verify the reliability of reports on greenhouse gas emissions, this function is assigned to the department by the law on the basics of monitoring, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions, which comes into force on January 1, 2021.
"The State Environmental Inspectorate can conduct an unscheduled check within three months after the submission of documents by business entities and check the compliance of the information with the actual state of affairs," head of the inspectorate Andriy Maliovany said.
He added that the State Environmental Inspectorate is currently fixing this new function in its position.
According to the expert, this law was adopted in the framework of the approximation of Ukrainian legislation to European, in particular the introduction of Directive 2003/87/EC on the compulsory creation of a greenhouse gas emission trading system. The directive provides for the receipt by economic entities of a permit for a certain amount of emissions. If the volume of generated greenhouse gases is less, the enterprise can sell the "remainder" of emissions to another entity.
The State Environmental Inspectorate is entrusted with the function of verifying data in documents, namely, in reports on emissions carried out for a certain period, in emission monitoring plans.
