“Impose tougher sanctions for environmental violations. For example, for excess and unauthorized emissions into the environment, the amount of administrative sanctions will increase by 10 times, for other offenses - on average, by twice, " he said presenting the draft law.
According to him, the current administrative fines cannot be an incentive mechanism - it is more profitable for users of natural resources to pay fines instead of eliminaing the violations.
The Ministry of Ecology proposed to increase the limitation period established for bringing to administrative responsibility: in relation to individuals from two months to one year; legal entities - from one to three years.
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