Analytics Publications Ecology

28
August
2023

Dmitriy Motorin for Revista Direito GV: A new legal concept for understanding the essence of production and consumption waste: a view from Russia

Recently, production and consumption waste has been recognized as a distinct legal category in the environmental law of the Russian Federation. This regulatory category has been changed several times within a short period. The study evidences that these changes were ontological, resulting from a change in approach to the distinction of waste from other results of economic activity. In practice, these changes introduced new characteristics into the concept of waste, each of which is related to one of the approaches to understanding the essence of waste identified by the authors of the article. The article reveals handicaps of earlier and contemporary approaches to understanding the legal essence of waste in Russia.

Based on the results of the study, a new subjective approach is proposed. This approach can serve as a starting point for shaping a new conceptual understanding of waste able to improve environmental law and promote quality enforcement.

Dmitriy Motorin, Senior Associate
Revista Direito GV
21
July
2017

The financial resources to remedy the consequences of an industrial accident

During work with hazardous production facilities, including hydraulic engineering facilities, there is potential risk in the form of accidents and other emergencies. Currently, there is no unified approach – either in terms of legislation or judicial practice – to how the process of remedying the consequences of industrial accidents is financed, or to how the list of people accountable for remedying these consequences is determined.

Industrial and environmental safety, labor protection
5
December
2016

Review of legislative changes in the energy sphere in October 2016

In October 2016, the focus of changes to normative regulations in the energy sector was directed on the specifics of activities of network organizations. In particular, they tightened the criteria for classifying owners of transmission facilities as network organizations, corrected was the procedure of technological connections to electric networks, in order to strengthen accountability for delays in the implementation of technological connection measures, and adjusted was the procedure for calculating the amount of electric energy losses during transmission through electric grids of territorial grid organizations. In addition, revised were the standards for assigning the status of a guaranteeing supplier to an organization, the definition and (or) change in the boundaries of the zones of activity of guaranteeing suppliers.

Yuriy Tatarinov, Head of Energy practice
Energy Market
23
October
2017

Experts: "How to build a facility without violating environmental legislation"

Protecting the environment and construction are two concepts that are virtually incompatible. When any human activity is introduced into the environment, it harms it. To minimize the damage, regulatory enactments are adopted, and the supervisory authorities enforce compliance. We asked our experts to talk about how to build a facility without violating the requirements set forth by ecologists, how to interact with the authorities enforcing laws for natural resource management, and the shortcomings in Russian environmental legislation.

Legal adviser in construction
17
February
2017

Eliminating accumulated environmental damage: novel environmental legislation innovations

Discussions on introducing into Russian legislation the concepts and procedures for eliminating (compensating for) accumulated environmental damage have been going on in our country from the time it signed the Kyoto Protocol.

Industrial and environmental safety, labor protection
11
April
2016

Environmental underside of the shale revolution

This article will address the environmental aspects of shale gas, including describing the character of the new production technologies (hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling), its environmental risks, as well as the reasons for such a rigid form of legal regulation of environmental requirements – as the complete bans on shale gas in a number of countries. This very private, but very eloquent example, will allow us to come to the logical conclusion that sometimes a total ban is really necessary, and sometimes the only way to regulate environmental risks in the energy sector.

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