The sphere of environmental protection needs both horizontal (change of the old corrupt and inefficient system of ecological control to transparent, effective and operative; reform of legal liability for environmental violations in terms of the extension of administrative and economic sanctions and measures of a criminal nature to legal entities, revision of the composition of violations and penalties; creation of a high-quality monitoring system to obtain initial data and display a complete picture of the state of the environment; raising environmental awareness of the population; introduction of an integrated permit), and sectoral reforms (solving problems in the areas of waste management, water and air quality, industrial pollution, conservation of natural ecosystems, climate change, etc.) i.This brief presents an analysis of the policy of the Government and Parliament on the implementation of these reforms during September 2019 – July 2020.
i The list of reforms is formed on the basis of existing social problems in the field of environment and opinion polls conducted in 2017-2019 on the existing public demand of the population.
