The packing collecting and processing companies could benefit from subsidies, while the business entities that ensure the collection of packing could benefit from a reduction in the environmental tax, as the draft 2021 customs and fiscal policy bill proposed by the Ministry of Finance for public debates provides.

The bill author says the business community is unwilling to pay environmental tax for particular recyclable products and, simultaneously, to create collective systems for collecting recyclable waste or to ensure individually the collection of recyclable waste as they have to incur particular participation-related costs or costs associated with the buying of waste collection and processing equipment.

But the law obliges to collect particular recyclable waste, such as batteries and accumulators, electrical and electronic equipment, vehicles, oils and packing. The regulations concerning electrical and electronic waste stipulate the volume of waste that the companies must collect of the total volume of goods placed on the market.

According to the Ministry of Finance, the business community asked to be partially exempted from paying the environmental tax so as to purchase equipment and ensure the waste collection process with the saved resources. A mechanism for collecting and processing recyclable waste that is privately managed will have a substantial effect on the environment, social and economic development. Such a system will help the enterprises to increase profitability as they will economize in the production process and will invest in modern equipment for collecting, processing and sorting waste and will thus be able to create jobs.