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Table 1: Government regulation of economic agents based on their category in the field of
environmental protection
Under the technological standards there will be understood the norms (standards) of permissible
emissions, discharges, wastes, water and electricity consumptions, and levels of physical impacts,
which are set for the main technological processes and equipment of the best available
technologies (BAT) using their technological indicators. Setting these technological indicators is
assumed by normative documents after the development of information and technical reference
books based on European BREF catalogs, adapted to economic and geographic Russian
conditions. It should be noted that for the process of equipment reconstruction, impact on the
environment which does not exceed the technological indicators of BAT, is also recognized as
the implementation of BAT. Thus achieving technological standards will allow the
environmentally hazardous enterprises to have the minimal pressure on the environment at the
present stage of development.
For the realization of economic activities, objects with a significant potential for pollution
(category I) will be required to contact a territorial agency of the federal executive authority with
the application for an integrated environmental permit. The federal executive authority will
approve the list of category I objects that need to get the integrated environmental permit
between 01/01/2019 and 31/12/2022. This list will include up to 300 objects that have a
negative impact on the environment, whose contribution to the total emissions, discharges of
pollutants in the Russian Federation is not less than 60 percent. The remaining category I objects
must get the integrated environmental permit before 01/01/2025.
For agents with a significant potential for environmental pollution (so-called environmentally
hazardous facilities) related to the fields of application of a best available technology (BAT) there
is a transition phase provided for technological standartization that creates