Public Hearings
2012-12-17 Round table entitled Methodology of risk-based revisions
Within the framework of Program of Amendment of the Inspection System in Armenia, the Methodology and Overview of Risk criteria have been elaborated also with regard to State Environmental Inspection. The round-table organized at ELRC today was devoted to the mentioned issues.
The invited speakers were Ms. Roza Julhakyan - Head of the Division of registration and analytics of the State environmental inspection of the Ministry of Nature Protection of RA, and Mr. Vardan Dabaghyan - Member of the group on inpsection amendments of the Ministry of Economics of RA. The speakers introduced to the audience the functioning principles, approaches and tasks of the new system.
The round-table aimed to bring to the attention of the business companies the new model of environmental control which will come into force as of 1st January 2013. According to the speakers the model of risk-based revisions will enable to distinguish the frequency of revisions based on the level of risk established for certain objects and make the control procedure more transparent. The risk level will be assessed based on a range of criteria already elaborated. As established in the Methodology the overall weight of risk is formed by two main components: sectoral risks and individual risks. The weight of the last is estimated parallelly upon information possessed by the firm and the information received upon checklist. To the contrary of the system still in force the new modely will make the revisions predictable, avoid red-tape and form new culture of relations inspector-enterpreneur.
Environmental Law Research Centre of the Faculty of Law, YSU also emphasizes the importance of the new initiative and is hopeful that it will have positive impact on the practice of state environmental control.
The participants of the round-table were representatives of mining companies who came up with a number of questions, remarks and suggestions with respect to the new system.
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