EcoLur
Damage caused to environment shall be determined not with standards, but expertise, as Professor Gevorg Danielyan thinks, Dr. in Legal Sciences, Head of YSU Department on Constitutional Law. 'It's unclear for me how the amount of damage caused in this sector is determined. We say we don't need expertise for that, we need standards. Let's say damage is caused to fauna and a poacher kills a deer or another animal and they say the damage caused makes up this amount and set a stable price. In general, I oppose to normative standards, which should be set: they are applicable only for fines, but only an expert can determine the damage caused so as not to be restrained in any manner. Changes in water composition shall be taken into consideration, further consequences, how many people will get sick: all these can't be determined under the normative standards,' Professor Gevorg Danielyan presented his opinion to EcoLur. According to him, there is no need to establish a special body – any expertise body can serve the role of an expert institution, for example, National Expertise Bureau, while RA Nature Protection Ministry will act as a customer. It should be mentioned that according to RA Nature Protection Ministry data, damage caused to environment in 2016 was estimated in the amount of 116,040,000 AMD.
January 18, 2017 at 16:21