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Waste management companies that pay the environmental pollution charge could benefit from compensation

Waste management companies that pay the environmental pollution charge could benefit from compensation

The Ministry of Environment has drafted a bill which, among other things, provides that economic agents that provide waste management and pay the environmental pollution tax in 2023 could be compensated by the state in 2024.

This was announced by Environment Minister Iordanca-Rodica IORDANOV at the meeting of the Working Group on Facilitating Green Transition and Cross-Border Trade, led by the Executive Director of the European Business Association, Mariana Rufa.

According to the Environment Minister, the legal and technical modalities of this process are to be ensured by the regulatory framework that is currently being developed and will be presented to the Government and Parliament.

At the moment the law obliges all economic agents in Moldova who place packaged products on the market to pay the environmental pollution tax.

However, some companies individually or collectively manage waste, i.e. collect it from consumers, store it, recycle it or send it to specialised companies for processing. But they are still taxed for environmental pollution, along with other businesses that do not apply the so-called Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) principle. Entrepreneurs are calling for this tax to be abolished for companies that apply the EPR principle.

The state collects 200 million lei annually from the environmental pollution tax.

Also at the meeting of Working Group 2, the concept for the drafting of the Green Economy Promotion Programme 2022-2027 and the Green Economy Promotion Plan 2023-2030 was presented. According to the Minister for the Environment, the draft documents, when they are drawn up, will be consulted including with the members of the Economic Council.

The Secretariat of the Economic Council to the Prime Minister is supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, funded by the UK Government’s Good Governance Fund, and the International Finance Corporation’s Investment Climate Reform Project funded by the Government of Sweden’s International Development Agency.

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