Mayor Sadovy Lvov asked the prime minister to recognize a zone of ecological emergency. According to lawyers of the city council, it has a legal basis. However, the “sanitation center,” doctors and environmentalists disagree.

Mayor Andriy Sadovy Lviv declared a zone of ecological emergency. But the fact that there are no grounds for this is claimed not only by the “Sanctuary” and the medical staff, but also by environmentalists, according to the ZIK publication.

On Monday, June 12, an extraordinary meeting of the city commission on issues of technological and environmental safety and emergency situations took place, during which it was decided to address the chairman of the League, the Prime Minister, the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council on declaring Lviv a zone of an emergency environmental situation.

“This decision of the city commission for TEB and ES is related to the critical situation in the city with the burial and removal of solid waste, as representatives of the carrier companies reported during the meeting of the commission, now there are 6,850 tons of accumulated and not exported solid household waste in Lviv. According to the Memorandum, the cities in the region accept only 80-100 tons per day from Lviv, and the decision of the commission is based on the order of the State Procurement Service of the region, which the city and carriers carry out can, because there is no polygon, where you can systematically take out the garbage “, – the press service of the Lviv City Council.

But is there any legal basis for this? According to the lawyers of the city council – yes. But how really? In accordance with the Law of Ukraine “On the Zone of Emergency Ecological Situation,” the grounds for declaring a particular area as a zone of an emergency environmental situation are:
– a significant excess of the maximum permissible standards of environmental quality indicators determined by law; Indicators of Gosprodobrepotrebluzhba services are within the limits of the norm and there are no significant deviations)
– negative changes that have occurred in the environment over a large area and which can not be eliminated without emergency measures from the state; (Obvious changes, “which can not be eliminated” without “extraordinary measures on the part of the state”, not yet)
– negative changes that have occurred in the environment, which significantly restrict or exclude the possibility of people living and doing business in the corresponding territory;

(The presence of something that “substantially restricts” or “excludes the possibility of people living” is also impossible to prove)

– a significant increase in the incidence of the population due to negative changes in the environment;

(According to the reports of the health department of the Lviv City Council, there are no indicators within the limits of the norm and there are no significant deviations)

– occurrence of a real threat to the life and health of a large number of people or causing significant material damage to legal entities, individuals or the environment due to excessive pollution of the natural environment, the destructive effect of natural forces or other factors; It remains only “the emergence of a real threat to life and health of a large number of people” – this is something that the state can really pay attention to.

But more likely is the situation when the mayor of Lviv and the entire executive branch will receive another “scolding” from the regional and state verticals. After all, not only the representatives of the authorities, but also the majority of the people of Lviv are more inclined to the fact that the reason for this step on the part of the Sadovaya team is the statement that goes further in the same paragraph “causing significant material damage to legal entities and individuals.” It’s no secret that the garbage business was a “gold mine” for the mayor at the time of the functioning of the Grybovichi landfill, it became profitable and in the period of mass uncontrolled write-off of hundreds of millions of hryvnias to export it in the last year.

The fact that there are no grounds for declaring an emergency environmental situation is claimed not only by the “Sanctuary” and the medical profession, but also by environmentalists. Alla Wojciechowska, an ecologist at the Ecology-Law-Man MBO, commented in the ZIK commentary that the key to making such a decision is precisely “a significant excess of the maximum permissible standards of environmental quality indicators,” but this is not yet available. In this regard, and the central authorities have no good reason for such actions.
Unfortunately, Andrei Sadovy, despite several clarifying questions about the regime, which will work in case Lvov was declared a zone of extremely ecological situation, could not explain anything about this. He only claimed that the state would be obliged to open all polygons for Lviv garbage.

Meanwhile, the Law provides for a number of specific and stringent measures:

– establishment of a special regime for entry and exit;

– restriction of the movement of vehicles and their inspection for the purpose of their necessary processing, a time delay in the event of the detection of possible dangerous effects on the life and health of people, or the threat of deterioration of the environmental situation;

– Strengthening the protection of public order and facilities that ensure the life of the population;

– Establishment of restrictions or prohibitions on holding mass events, including in case of aggravation of the epidemiological situation, except for activities, the prohibition and conduct of which is established by the court;

– resettlement of people from places that are dangerous for their residence, with mandatory provision of residential premises for permanent or temporary residence;

– Establishment of a temporary ban on the construction of new and expanding existing enterprises and other facilities whose activities are not related to the liquidation of an emergency environmental situation or to ensure the vital activity of the population;

– establishment of quarantine and implementation of other mandatory sanitary and anti-epidemic measures;

– the introduction of a special order for the distribution of food and basic necessities among the population;

– mobilization of resources of enterprises, institutions and organizations, regardless of the form of ownership, changing their operating mode and the profile of production activities within the limits necessary for carrying out rescue and recovery operations;

– Carrying out the necessary works to assist the animals in case of their disease, the threat of their death;

– compulsory alienation of objects of private property rights with mandatory subsequent full refund of their value;

– the implementation of a set of works on the normalization of the ecological state in the area of ​​the emergency environmental situation. Are all these measures of the city necessary in this situation?

Will the state power go to them? These questions, apparently, do not require an answer. Definitely not. Is the mayor of Lviv ready to take all these measures? It is also difficult to agree. For the sake of an unsubstantiated populist statement – yes, but whether he can put this into practice – is doubtful. Moreover, on the nose is so expensive for Sadovaya “Alpha Jazz Fest”, renamed “Leopolis-Jazz”.

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