The municipality suggests that the Government should constitute an interinstitutional group for designing an action plan for efficiently and proportionally implementing the normative framework in the fields of environment and water supply and sewerage. A decision to this effect was taken by the Commission for Exceptional Situations of the municipality of Chisinau, which took cognizance of the informative note of SA “Apă-Canal Chișinău” (ACC) concerning the wastewater collection, treatment and discharge requirements, IPN reports.

The interinstitutional group will consist of representatives of the local public authorities of Chisinau, of ACC, of non-household consumers and representatives of civil society. The action plan is needed for preventing exceptional situations following eventual disconnections of nonresidential consumers from the sewerage system for non-observance of the conditions of discharging wastewater, in accordance with the legal provisions.

Recently, “Apă-Canal Chișinău” was fined 12 million lei for exceeding the maximally allowed concentrations of pollutants in wastewater in the public sewerage system. New regulations that oblige business entities to pretreat wastewater with increased concentrations of pollutants by setting up pretreatment stations take effect on January 1, 2022.