Town in Buzau County receives €10,000 fine for pollution

Alina Oprea
Commissioners from National Environmental Guard - the County Commissariat Buzău carried out a field inspection on March 6 2023 at the Smeeni administrative-territorial unit, finding that within the radius of the towns of Călţuna, Albești, and Lucieni, there are the same mixed waste dumps (stable, household, recyclable and plant residues), which were also identified during the previous control in 2022. UAT Smeeni was fined RON50,000 (€10,000) for not abolishing the three non-compliant waste dumps.

The inspection was carried out as a result of the request of the General Commissariat of the National Environmental Guard dated March 2, 2023, to verify the sites where illegal storage of waste was identified, in significant quantities, attaching the list of the UATs on which they are found these locations.

"Since UAT Smeeni did not carry out the previously imposed measure regarding the abolition of the three non-compliant waste deposits, in accordance with art. 96, para. 3 point 9 of GEO 195/2005 on environmental protection, the environmental commissioners applied a contravention sanction - a fine, in the amount of RON50,000 UAT Smeeni. The measure of sanitization of the land affected by the waste deposits was imposed, as well as the transportation of the waste to authorized economic agents with a view to their valorization/elimination", announced the National Environmental Guard.

Also, following the control carried out by the commissioners of the Mehedinți Environmental Guard in the radius of the Obârsia Cloșani commune, together with the representatives of the National Administration - Romanian Waters - ABA Jiu and the protected natural area Platoul Mehedinți Geopark, four trout were identified with feeding from the Brebina watercourse and its tributaries, which belong to natural persons.

The owners of the fish ponds identified did not have regulatory documents for carrying out aquaculture activity.

Thus, contraventional sanctions in the amount of RON20,000 (€4,000) were applied and the measure to stop the activity was ordered until the regulatory acts from the point of view of environmental protection are obtained.

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