MINISTRY REPORTS MORE ENVIRONMENTAL BREACHES
Panorama.am
17:11 24/07/2007
In the first quarter of the running year, the state budget has received
928 million Armenian drams from environmental fees. Inspection services
have also transferred another 47,3 million drams to the state budget
as environmental fines.
Press Secretary of Nature Protection Ministry Artsrun Pepanyan
says inspection services have detected 750 environmental breaches
in 970 economic entities against 500 last years. Most breaches were
reported in air pollution. The environmental inspection services have
also unveiled 211 water resource mismanagement cases. Seventy-one
cases were detected as violations of animal world with subsequent
administrative and monetary compensation penalties made.