RA OMBUDSMAN’S REPORT: NATURE PROTECTION MINISTRY INSPECTED 120 OBJECTS INSTEAD OF 2332 OBJECTS

13:21 April 11, 2015

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Within its competences Nature Protection Ministry didn’t take effective
measures to prevent violations in nature protection sector, as well as
it didn’t carry out a sufficient number of environmental inspections
to detect and prevent possible violations, as the Ombudsman’s report
“On Human Rights Defender’s Activities and Violation of Human Rights
and Fundamental Freedoms in Armenia for 2014” says.

“In 2014 the Ministry planned to conduct inspections in 2332 objects,
but factually it inspected 120 ones. As compared with the indicators
for 2013, the inspections in 120 objects resulted in the increase of
detecting violations, caused damage and, consequently, administrative
damages,” the report says.

From: A. Papazian