Apa-Canal Chisinau quarterly pays the Ministry of Environment considerable fees for discharging treated water with concentrations exceeding permitted levels. Companies, in turn, are obliged by law to pay the service provider for exceeding wastewater pollution norms. The statement was made by the Apa-Canal Chisinau board after the National Agency for Protection of Competition announced on Tuesday it had received a complaint from a company. The latter informed that Apa-Canal charged additional fees for the pre-treatment of water besides the fixed tariffs for providing water and for evacuating wastewater. The Apa-Canal Chisinau administration noted that it followed the legislative and normative acts on setting fees and prices. The law obliges companies that use water resources and evacuate wastewater, regardless of the form of property, to assure the pre-treatment of wastewater in local stations. The evacuation of the pre-treatment residual sludge is obligatory. Those who don’t have pre-treatment stations, pen a contract with the provider. The contracting method is established by a regulation of the Chisinau Municipal Council. On Tuesday, June 28, the ANPC director, Viorica Carare, declared that Apa-Canal Chisinau transformed from an enterprise into a watchdog agency, setting market rules, operating controls, issuing prescriptions, applying penalties and cutting off companies from the sewage system.