262 CASES OF VIOLATION OF NATURE PROTECTION LEGISLATION EXPOSED IN
FIRST HALF OF 2004
YEREVAN, August 20 (Noyan Tapan). In the first half of 2004, the
territorial inspections of the RA Ministry of Nature Protection
checked-up 561 entities (508 entities were checked-up during the same
period of 2003) and exposed 262 cases of the violation of the
legislation of nature protection (203 cases were exposed in the first
half of 2003). According to the RA Ministry of Nature Protection,
31.3% of violations fell on offences in the sphere of the protection
of water resources, 26.3% fell on atmospheric air protection, 24.8%
fell on flora protection, 9.2% fell on fauna protection, 6.9% fell on
the protection of land resources and 1.5% fell on the protection of
entrails. 178 people (as compared with 152 people of 2003) have
incurred administrative penalty for offences in the sphere of nature
protection, and fines of 14.5 mln drams (9.9 mln drams – in 2003) have
been set. 71 protocols on damaging of a total of 26.3 mln drams have
been compiled.