Events and Announcements

On 21 February 2018, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine liquidated 12 territorial bodies of the State Environmental Inspectorate that operated on regional (oblast) level: State Environmental Inspectorate in the Autonomous republic of Crimea State Environmental Inspectorate in Zhytomyr region State Environmental Inspectorate in Ivano-Frankivsk region State Environmental Inspectorate in Kyiv region State Environmental Inspectorate…

On 15 February 2018, State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving of Ukraine jointly with Ukrainian League of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs held the round-table discussion “Using solid domestic waste as a source of energy for production of thermal and electric power in Ukraine”. Although the round-table was declared to be open and accessible for…

On 15 February 2018, the final decision in EPL’s case regarding the ploughing of the landscape reserve “Tarutynski steppe” was adopted. The decision of the Supreme Economic Court upheld the decisions of the courts of the first and appellate courts that invalidated the contract № 5 -2016 of 13.07.2016 “On the cultivation of agricultural crops”…

According to the official web-site of the National Commission of State Regulation in Energy and Communal Services (NCSRECS), on 13 November 2017 there was held a public discussion of the draft resolution on setting tariffs for sale of electricity by Ukrhidroenerho in 2018. According to this draft, 20 mln UAH are planned to be spent…

International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” announces a competition for selection of students of the third on-line course on international environmental law that will run from February to May 2018. The 2018 course will concentrate on two major topics – horizontal environmental legislation and waste management. The course will include six modules on the most urgent issues…

About results of functioning of the Department of Environmental Protection of Kyiv Regional State Administration and State Environmental Academy in 2017 In January last year EPL released the article “How officials make profit on creation of protected areas» that wrote about the scheme used by the Department of Environmental Protection at Kyiv Regional State Administration,…

On 7 December, the collegium of judges of Kyiv Appellate Economic Court conducted the hearing of the court case regarding protection of Bychok tract. Plaintiffs in the case are the administration of Holosiyiv National Nature Park and Kyiv Prosecutor’s Office. International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” and the Ministry of Environment of Ukraine joined the lawsuit as…

For two years, the Parliament of Ukraine has been trying to introduce in Ukraine “green” tariff for energy production through waste incineration. Currently, the draft law №4835-д «On amendment of some laws of Ukraine to stimulate use of domestic waste as alternative source of energy” is on the agenda of the Parliament1. Positions of EPL…