The Minister of the Environment, announces about the “law of odors”. “We receive thousands of complaints from citizens who tell us that they cannot open their windows to their own homes.”
Diana Buzoianu. Inquam Photos / Malina Norocea
The Minister of the Environment, Diana Buzoianu, announced on Monday night at Antena 3 that he discussed with his health counterpart, Alexandru Rogobete, and “is very open” to the idea of being a working group to develop the implementation rules for the “law of odors”, which says that in the absence of these norms “.
Diana Buzoianu spoke about the results of the controls arranged at the garbage pits in the country after the fire in Aninoasa.
“47 garbage pits were checked, 31 were fined-1.8 million lei, this is the amount (…) fines (…). Here we talk about municipal trash pits, officially. Think about illegal trash pits, but we talk here about pits that should be OK, The legislation does not respect the legislation (…).
She said that at present the law of odors cannot be used because there are no implementing rules.
“We have the law of odors for years. The law of odors for years is inapplicable because it does not have the implementing norms. We have spoken with Mr. Rogobete (…) and it is very open to make a working group, to give the implementing norms on the law of odors, because it must be a normative act and we will not have this, and we will We can open the window at our own house to be able to pay ”, continued Minister Diana Buzoianu.
“Whole counties seized by a single trash” “
The Minister of the Environment also spoke about the problem of garbage pits that have a monopoly on extended areas.
“There are whole counties that are seized by a single trash, which has a monopoly, and whole counties, if the respective trash pits would be closed, because you have, at three to four counties, say, a garbage dump, which is the only one to which the respective garbage can be taken, if (…), the respective laws. The fine and they see themselves further from the job, ”added Buzoianu.
The minister claims that these operators “live today in a context in which I know they have nowhere to take the respective counties, if their gate is closed.”
“We have to look a little at the legislation, to see how we can break this monopoly, we must have a discussion at European level for breaking this monopoly, and the counties, and the county councils must be actively involved to solve this problem,” said Minister Diana Buzoianu.
