Our mission and functions

              Our mission and functions


The State Environmental Inspectorate of Ukraine (State Inspectorate) is the central executive body whose activities are directed and coordinated by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine through the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources. It implements state policy on state supervision (control) in the field of environmental protection, rational use, recovery and protection of natural resources.

Our main tasks:

1.    implementation of state policy on state supervision (control) in the field of environmental protection, rational use, recovery and protection of natural resources;

2.    realization of state supervision (control) of legislation requirements compliance, with regard to:

     protection of lands, subsoil and mineral resources;

    ecological and radiation protection;

    protection and use of territories and objects of the natural reserves;

    protection, rational use and recovery of forests;

   conservation, recovery and non-exhaustive use of biological and landscape diversity;

   rational use, recovery and protection of animal and plant life;

   hunting farms and hunting;

   protection, rational use and recovery of water resources;

   ambient air protection;

   formation, preservation and use of the ecological network;

   environmental status information;

   waste, hazardous chemicals, pesticides and agrochemicals management;

  implementation of activities ensuring biological and genetic safety of the natural environment during the creation, research and practical use of genetically modified organisms in an open system;

3.   submission of proposals to the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources on formation of state policy in the field of environmental protection, rational use, recovery and protection of natural resources.реалізація державної політики із здійснення державного нагляду (контролю) у сфері охорони навколишнього природного середовища, раціонального використання, відтворення і охорони природних ресурсів;


Areas of activity:


State Inspectorate in accordance with the assigned tasks:

1. Generalizes the practice of applying legislations, develops proposals for the improvement of legislative acts, acts of the President of Ukraine and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and other ministries and submits them to the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources in accordance with the established procedure;

2.    Implement the state supervision (control) of the central executive authorities and their territorial bodies, local executive authorities and local self-government bodies of their compliance to the requirements of the legislation:

a) on environmental and radiation safety, in particular:

implementation of the requirements of the results of the state ecological expertise;

at the state border and in the zones of customs control of Ukraine during the import, export and transit of goods and vehicles;

while managing with the scrap metal;

while activities that constitute an increased environmental hazard;

while activities on objects that constitute an increased environmental hazard;

b) on the protection of lands, subsoil, minerals, in particular concerning:

conservation of degraded and non productive lands;

conservation of wetlands;

achievement of environmental requirements during the use of properties, in particular for rent of the land;

implementation of measures to prevent the pollution of land with chemical and radioactive substances, waste, sewage;

control of use of lands of natural reserves and other nature conservation territories, as well as areas subject to special protection;

compliance with ecological standards on the use and protection of land;

construction, dredging, sand and gravel mining, laying cables, pipelines and other communications in the water bodies;

establishment and use of water protection zones and coastal protective bands, as well as control of using these territories;

use and protection of subsoil and minerals;

c) on the protection, rational use of water and recovery of water resources, in particular:

implementation of state, multi governmental and regional programs for the use and protection of water, recovery of water resources;

presence and implementation of permits, standards for the maximum discharge of pollutants, limits of collection and use of water and the discharge of pollutants;

rights of state ownership of water;

collection and use of water accounting by the water users, monitoring the quality and quantity of discharge and pollutants in the water bodies, water quality in control places, as well as submission the reports to authorities;

observance of the established regime of economic activity in the sanitary protection zones of drinking and household water supply, water protection zones, coastal protective bands, water treatment facilities and other water facilities and technical devices;

prevention of the pollution of water bodies by sewage (rain, snow) leaving the property of water users;

implementation of actions for the rational use of water resources;

implementation of technical, forest-meliorative, meteorological, hydro technical and other actions in order to protect water from exhaustion, improve their condition, as well as prevent contaminated discharge (waste, mine, quarry, drainage water), ballast and linoleic waters;

carrying out works related to the elimination of the consequences of accidents, which may lead to deterioration of water quality;

compliance with ecological requirements during design, placement, construction of new and reconstruction of operating enterprises, buildings and other objects;

realization of actions to prevent harmful action of water and liquidation of its consequences;

observance of regulations in operation rules of technological reservoirs (cooling rates of thermal and nuclear power plants, fish rates, ponds, sediment ponds, etc.) of industrial contaminated sewage or mine and quarry waters;

use, recovery and protection of the marine environment and natural resources of inland waters, the territorial waters, the exclusive (marine) economic zone of Ukraine and the continental shelf of Ukraine, adherence of the standards of ecological safety;

loading and unloading operations in ports, port facilities and on raids;

observance of agreements and requirements of the environmental legislation of Ukraine on prevention of pollution of the marine environment by ships and international conventions ships;

d) on the protection of ambient air, in particular:

implementation of national or regional environmental programs;

availability and compliance of permits for emissions;

continuous effective work and maintenance of facilities and equipment for reducing of pollutants in emissions;

observance of standards in the field of air protection;

observance of ecological indicators of petroleum products (petrol of automobile and diesel fuel), that are realized by means of wholesale and retail trade;

way of carrying out activities aimed at changes in the state of the atmospheric conditions for economic purposes;

providing complete and reliable information on the state of the air, determining the types and amounts of pollutants emitted into the atmosphere;

e) protection, use and recovery of forests, in particular:

trees and shrubs damage, destruction or damage of forests, seeds, naturally growing on lands used for forest regeneration, the legality of felling;

the completeness and legitimacy of the implemented measures for the recovery of forests, rare breeds of trees, the breeds related to the specific region, and actions for the care of forest crops on the restoration lands;

rational and non-exhaustive use of forest resources;

forest goods extraction and use of forest resources;

realization of protection actions for the forests protection from fires, illegal logging, pests and diseases, damages due to anthropogenic and other harmful impacts, the use of pesticides and agrochemicals in forestry and forests;

use of field-protecting forest bands, water protection and protective forest planting;

provision of timber by the main use felling and implementation of forest management measures;

use of new and reconstructed factories, units, transport routes, main pipelines, communal and other objects that are not provided with equipment that prevents harmful influence on the state and recovery of forests;

conservation of the forest fauna;

e) on the rational use, recovery and protection of the objects of the fauna, in particular:

regulation of the wild animals abundance;

the use and recovery of rare and endangered species of animals included in the Red Book of Ukraine;

maintenance and breeding of wild animals that are in captivity or in a semi-free environment;

the presence of documents confirming the legality of wild animals ownership, including those included in the Red Book of Ukraine;

availability of permits for the maintenance and breeding of wild animals;

protection of environment, ways of migration, acclimatization and cross-breeding of wild animals;

import into Ukraine and export of animals outside its borders and tools for hunting;

protection of wild animals from cruelty;

legality of acquiring private property of wildlife objects;

e) protection, use and recovery of fish and other aquatic resources;

e) presence of permits, limits and quotas for the special use of natural resources and their control;

g) protection, maintenance and use of greenbelt;

h) use, protection and recovery of flora;

i) compliance with rules for the creation, replenishment, storage, use and governmental registration of zoological and botanical collections and their trade;

j) compliance with the states of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES);

k) hunting farms and hunting;

l) preservation of flora and fauna included in the Red and Green Books of Ukraine, formation, preservation and use of the ecological network;

m) protection and use of the territories and objects of the nature reserves, in particular:

observance of the state of territories and objects of the nature reserves;

presence of limits and permissions for the special use of natural resources within the territories and objects of the nature reserves and observance of their amount, recovery of natural resources in the nature reserves;

n) waste management, in particular:

control of permit requirements for waste management operations;

creation and maintenance of a list of objects of formation, processing and utilization of waste, registration of places for waste disposal;

transportation of hazardous wastes through Ukraine and transboundary shipment of wastes;

collection, transportation, storage, treatment, utilization, disposal of waste (including the prevention of mixing and disposal of waste that can be utilized);

recording the quantity, type and composition of waste that is generated, collected, transported, stored, processed, disposed and removed, producing statistical reports and certification of such waste;

compliance of the technological documentation with the requirements, during the products production (except for research samples) from waste or with their use;

compliance with the rules and operating conditions of waste treatment and utilization industries;

compliance with the requirements of environmental safety during transportation, storage, use, and disposal of plant protection chemicals, mineral fertilizers, toxic substances and wastes;

full implementation of actions for the protection of land from litter and pollution by waste;

o) in the field of chemical energy sources in terms of ensuring the ecological safety of the production of chemical energy sources and utilization of used chemical energy sources, recording accumulation rate of chemical energy sources waste and their transfer for utilization;

p) observance for registration in the ship documents actions related with hazardous substances and mixtures, ballast and flax waters;

r) compliance with biological and genetic safety measures in relation to biological objects of the environment during the creation, research and practical use of genetically modified organisms in an open system;

3.    carry out inspections (including documentary) with the use of instrumental and laboratory control, give the acts on the results of state supervision (control), makes obligatory orders for elimination of revealed violations and supervises their implementation performing laboratory measurements (tests);

3-1) carries out state market supervision within the scope of its responsibility;

{Subparagraph 3-1 added in accordance with the Resolution of CM № 143, February 28, 2018}

4.    provide to the central and local executive authorities and local self-government bodies acts on temporal or permanent cancellation of permits, licenses, certificates, decisions, limits, quotas, approvals, certificates for special use of natural resources, pollutant emissions and discharges handling of hazardous chemicals, transboundary movement of plant and animal life (including aquatic living resources), as well as establishment of standards of maximum acceptable levels of harmful impact on the environment;

submits to the licensing authority a documents regarding the right to conduct economic activity;

5.    claim to a court regarding the restriction of activities of enterprises and objects irrespective of their form of the ownership, if their exploitation is carried out against the legislation on environmental protection, permits for the use of natural resources, exceeding the allowance of the maximum emissions from the influence of physical and biological factors and emission limitations of pollutants;

6.    submits to central executive authorities, their territorial bodies, local executive authorities and local self-government bodies requirements regarding the eligibility of their decisions that fall within the competence of the State Inspectorate;

7.    write protocols on administrative offences and consider cases of administrative offenses, impose administrative penalties;

8.    submits claims for compensation of damage, losses and losses caused to the country as a result of noncompliance of legislation and calculates their amount, goes to the court with corresponding claims;

9.    apply pre-trial settlement of disputes in accordance with the established procedure, acting as plaintiff and defendant in courts;

10.  apply in accordance with the law measures for termination of illegal use of mineral resources and the development of areas of deposits of minerals against established procedure;

11.  carries out ecological and radiological control of goods and vehicles, including goods (items) of humanitarian help, at the state border points, in the customs territory of Ukraine;

12.  review the appeals of citizens related to the activities of the State Inspectorate, its territorial bodies, enterprises, institutions and organizations belonging to its sphere of management;

13.  develops and participates in the elaboration of draft laws of Ukraine, acts of the President of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and other legislative acts on matters that fall within its competence;

14.  arranges scientific and technical, investing, informative, publishing activities;

15.  carries out international cooperation, ensures fulfillment of obligations undertaken under international treaties of Ukraine on matters within its competence, takes part in the preparation of international treaties;

16.  inform the public about the implementation of the state policy that in the competence of the State Inspectorate;

17.  participates in the training of specialists in the relevant field;

18.  perform functions related to the management of state-owned objects belonging to the sphere of its management;

19.  make other powers specified by law.

Powers:


The State Inspectorate carries out its powers directly and through territorial bodies.

The State Inspection has the right to perform the tasks assigned to:

1) involve, in accordance with the established procedure, the implementation of certain works, participation in the studies of scientists and specialists, employees of central and local executive authorities, local authorities, enterprises, institutions and organizations (in consultation with their leaders);

2) involve law enforcement officers in carrying out measures on state supervision (control) within its competence;

3) receive from the central and local executive authorities, local governments, enterprises, institutions, organizations irrespective of the form of ownership and their officials, as well as citizens and their associations, the information, documents and materials necessary for the performance of the obligations imposed on it tasks;

4) start meetings, set up commissions, working groups and expert groups to carry out scientific conferences, seminars on issues that fall within its competence;

5) use free of charge state bodies information databases, the state system of government communications and other technical means;

6) stop vehicles (including floating) and carry out their inspection, review of tools for the extraction of objects of plant and animal life (including fish and other aquatic living resources) in the places of their extraction, storage, processing and sale;

7) remove in the established manner tools for the fauna extraction (including aquatic living resources), transport (including floating vehicles), equipment and objects that are an instrument for the extraction of the fauna (including fish and other aquatic living resources), illicitly extracted natural resources and products from them, as well as relevant documents (licenses, permits, etc.);

8) carry out in accordance with the law photographing, sound recording, film and video shooting, in particular with aircraft and space technology, for preventing and disclosing violations of legislation; supervision (control) that falls within the competence of the State Inspectorate;

9) perform sampling and laboratory measurements of the composition and properties of stationary pollution sources of atmospheric air, ballast, reverse, surface, marine waters, measurements of composition and properties of underground water in samples from observation wells; measurements of the composition and properties of the emissions of mobile sources of air pollution and environmental indicators of petroleum products (petrol of automobile and diesel fuel), which are realized by wholesale and retail trade by business entities;

10) conduct an inspection of the organization and implementation of control of the compliance with the standards of the maximum emissions, for the implementation of instrumental and laboratory measurements of the parameters of emissions of pollutants from stationary and mobile sources and the efficiency of gas treatment plants, in compliance with the established standards of maximum discharge of pollutants, the quality and quantity of waste water and pollutants in the water bodies and the quality of the water in the control units and verification of compliance with the rules for determining the quality of water;

11) carry out a laboratory analysis of the state of land pollution, including radioactive, in the places of direct influence of emissions and discharges by enterprises, as well as in case of accidents and emergencies;

12) call citizens and officials of state authorities, other state bodies, bodies of local self-government for receiving oral and written explanations in case of violation of requirements of the legislation;

13) collect, process and analyze information on compliance with the requirements of legislation on matters that fall within its competence;

14) examine, in accordance with the procedure established by law, enterprises, institutions and organizations to follow the requirements of legislation in the field of environmental protection, protection of lands, subsoil, minerals;

15) bring people who violated the requirements of legislation to law enforcement agencies, bodies of the State Border Guard Service or executive bodies;

16) transfer to law enforcement authorities materials about acts in which the signs of a criminal offense are found.

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