Those guilty for oil spills at the territory of Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Region over 8 months of 2006 года were claimed for 939 thou rubles
From January to August 2006 Central Administration of Federal Service for Supervision on Natural Resources Usage (Rospririodnadzor) in the North-West federal district imposed fines for oil spills and raised demands to pay for ecological damages to a total amount of 939 thou rubles. This information has been provided to PortNews IAA by Roman Baluev, deputy head of Rospririodnadzor CA in the NWFD. According to Baluev, upon 9 oil spills the fines imposed amounted to the amount of 290 thou rubles. 250 thou rubles have been already paid. Besides, the demands to pay for ecological damages to a total amount of 649 thou rubles were raised, 270 thou rubles of which has been already paid. 10 inspectors are engaged by Rospririodnadzor CA in the NWFD at the sea area.
Over just 9 months of 2006 in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Region inspection of Rospririodnadzor CA resulted in imposing of fines for total amount of 574 thou rubles, 324 thou rubles of this amount has been already paid.
Baluev informed that in compliance with the order of Rospririodnadzor dated July 3, 2006 inventory of property and liabilities of the companies is carried out at Baltic specialized marine inspection and Kaliningrad specialized marine inspection. These inspections will be reorganized through merge before December 1, 2006. Staff list of the new federal state body – Baltic Direction on technical support of marine supervision with Kaliningrad region department - is under development to be furnished for approval at Rospririodnadzor. Rospririodnadzor CA was ordered to carry out management and supervision over implementation of reorganization activities of federal state institutions.
Similar events are held in relation to the merge of Arctic SMI with Nenets, Taimyr and Yamal-Nenets SMI.
Besides, Rospririodnadzor CA informed that within the framework of Central Administration the supervision department of marine inspection of Kaliningrad region was established and started its activities on July 1. The personnel of the department in Kaliningrad region comprises 5 government inspectors.