As of 28 December 2017, organisations planning any activity that is subject to the environmental expert assessment (i.e. any activity that has a potentially high environmental impact) are required to comply with the revised provisions governing the performance of environmental expert assessment.
For example, the date when the construction documentation for facilities that belong to category I of environmental polluters will be subject to the environmental expert assessment has been moved from 1 January 2018 to 1 January 2019. This means that construction of category I facilities (high environmental pollution facilities) will not require any preliminary environmental expert assessment until 1 January 2019.
The requirement for category I facilities to equip all their emission sources with automatic emission measurement devices will also start to apply from 1 January 2019 and not from 1 January 2018.
Law: Federal Law No. 422-FZ of 28 December 2017 On Amending Article 14 of the Federal Law on Environmental Expert Assessment and Article 12 of the Federal Law on Environmental Protection