Business asked to keep compensatory measures if emission quotas are not reached

The Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) asked to postpone the adoption of amendments, according to which businesses will not be able to carry out compensatory measures if quotas for reducing pollutant emissions are not reached by the end of 2026. This is stated in the letters of the president of the union Alexander Shokhin addressed to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin dated April 19 (Vedomosti has it).

New amendments to the law “On conducting an experiment on quotas for pollutant emissions …” were prepared by the State Duma Committee on Ecology, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection. They were published in the electronic database of the State Duma on April 18. In the first reading, the bill was adopted in November 2022. The second reading of the draft is scheduled for April 20.