On January 31 at a session of Tatarstan Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources on results of work in 2013 and setting tasks for 2014, Head of the Ministry Artem Sidorov told that there were 7163 inspections held in 2013. 6147 violations were revealed, 5972 of them were corrected.

Activity of a number of enterprises in Kazan, Naberezhnye Chelny, Mamadysh, Aktanysh and Tukai regions was stopped because for systematic gross atmosphere protection violations.

According to Artem Sidorov, 2013 was the Year of environmental protection in Russia, the Year of ecological culture and environmental protection in Tatarstan, and the year of Universiade in Kazan, and it required maximum efforts from the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources.

“We focused on improving quality of the environment in conditions of current social and economic situation, and ensuring ecological safety under sustainable development of real sector of economy,” the Minister informed.

The mechanism of local monitoring of the atmosphere at enterprises, sources of pollutant emissions, was developed last year. The system is to be implemented throughout the republic.

Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov, Minister of Information and Communication Roman Shaikhutdinov, Head of Nizhnekamsk region Aidar Metshin took part in the session.