Environmental Projects Center

The Environmental Projects Center, which includes professional environmental auditors, provides additional services in the following areas:

• information and consulting support for projects designed to achieve significant environmental benefits (environmental consulting);
• preliminary environmental assessment of projects, recommendations and assistance in preparing the necessary documentation (including OCI) and, where necessary, in passing an independent environmental audit;
• establishing the compliance of documents justifying business and other activities with state environmental requirements; supporting the customer's activities in terms of interacting with the regional departments of Rosprirodnadzor (RF Service for the Oversight of Natural-Resource Management) during state environmental expert assessments;
• preliminary review of projects for compliance with the requirements governing inclusion in the national “Ecology” project and support for regional applications to the federal executive authorities;
• interaction with the regional authorities on mechanisms for possible financing of the region's contribution to the implementation of projects included in the financing program for the national “Ecology” project.

Consulting on the granting of subsidies from the federal budget for reimbursement of part of the costs entailed in the implementation of investment projects involving the introduction of the best-available technologies within the framework of the Rules approved by RF Governmental Resolution No. 541 dated April 30, 2019 (as amended by RF Governmental Resolution No. 2073 dated December 10, 2020).

• consultations on the rules and procedures for the granting of subsidies from the federal budget within the framework of investment projects for the implementation of BAT;
• recommendations for the customer on the selection of investment projects and their preliminary review;
• consulting support for the customer's activities in the preparation and execution of Application Documentation;
• preliminary examination of Application Documentation for compliance with the established requirements;
• support for the customer's interaction with the RF Ministry of Industry and Trade during the review and evaluation of Application Documentation;
• consulting support for the customer's activities in terms of reporting in accordance with the form of the RF Ministry of Finance and additional reporting.