The Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment designed a semi-automated instrument for calculating payments for pollutant emissions and discharges. This was worked out taking into account the latest changes made to the legislation by which the payment rates were raised by 20%. This way, the reporting and declaring of pollution fees will be made in accordance with the increased rates, IPN reports.

“This instrument was designed in a move to facilitate the process of calculating the given payments by the payers of environmental taxes,” said the head of the Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assessment Division Maria Nagornyi.

Gabriela Capcelea, senior consultant at the Division, noted that this Excel instrument will help to easier calculate the payments for pollutant emissions and discharges. “We introduced the formulas from the instruction on the calculation of these payments and left a larger number of columns so that the business entities could include a maximum number of payments for all the types of pollutants,” she stated.

The instrument will be available on the Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment’s website as from January 21, after it is presented at the seminars and workshops staged by the Ministry.