ArmInfo.In Armenia, control over violations in the sphere of ecology and subsoil will be carried out by a single body - inspection of environmental control and subsoil. Relevant amendments to the law "On Environmental Control" and related laws made at the meeting of the RA National Assembly on February 8 in the first reading.
According to the Minister of Nature Protection of Armenia Artsvik Minasyan, until recently, issues related to the control of disturbances in Nature Protection Ministry was engaged in environmental protection, and in the sphere of subsoil use - the Ministry of energy infrastructure and natural resources, a result of reforms to form a single body - the Inspectorate for Environmental Control and subsoil. Inspection activity will be carried out under the government of the republic.
Another innovation concerns measures of responsibility and authority to develop legal acts in the field of nature protection and subsoil. The chief responsible person in resolving this issue will be the head of the inspection. It is the inspection that from now on will apply administrative measures of punishment against violators of environmental legislation. Arrangements are made for filing appeals against decisions of the inspector.