The Ministry of Natural Resources has developed a project according to which they want to assign the responsibility to process all types of packaging, oils and batteries from 2021 to their direct manufacturers. We are talking about processing 100% of the products sold, writes “Merchant».
According to the latest version of the reform of the institution of extended liability of producers and importers of goods and packaging (EPR), it is planned to gradually increase the recycling rate to 100% for other types of goods. Although back in December 2019, the head of the department, Dmitry Kobylkin, assured that he did not plan to "revolutionarily raise the percentage of utilization to 100".
As follows from the project, manufacturers will be able to obtain the right to independently collect and dispose of waste through special associations (the requirements for them will then be set by the government). In addition, they will be able to make a choice: dispose of waste at their own facilities or pay an environmental fee. Its administration is still proposed to be entrusted to the Federal Tax Service, and the state company Russian Ecological Operator (REO) will manage the collected funds, as it was supposed in the initial version, through a specially created fund (the Ministry of Finance objected to this). Also, the Ministry of Natural Resources did not abandon the introduction of VAT benefits for procurers of secondary resources and an additional personal income tax benefit for citizens who receive income from their delivery.
Among other innovations of the project is the creation of public registers of manufacturers and importers, procurers and utilizers, as well as waste sorting stations. In addition, the concept implies an increase in fines for those who evade waste disposal. The interlocutor, close to the Ministry of Natural Resources, claims that we are talking about a double environmental fee. "Measures of responsibility" are also provided for REO - in case of failure to meet the standards for the disposal of goods and packaging, for which the business has paid an environmental fee.
Source: agro.ru