Payment for garbage collection: strictly by registration

During the plenary session, representatives of the deputies continued the work begun last year to improve the mechanism of charging for the export of solid household waste from owners of private households living in cities and rural settlements. The need to change the legal norms was caused by the unfavorable sanitary condition of the country's settlements, a large number of spontaneously occurring garbage dumps in various places.

Currently, subscribers in the private sector may enter into agreement for the provision of services for the removal of solid waste with specialized organizations or individual entrepreneurs engaged in this type of patent activity. If this is not done, the tax payment is charged. Its size is higher than the fee at the conclusion of the contract. Accordingly, the contractual relationship for subscribers is more profitable. In this case, payment for garbage collection is carried out on the basis of concluded contracts, based on the number prescribed in the household.

The amendments to the law “On payments for pollution of the environment and use of natural resources,” authored by Deputy Anton Onufienko, suggest: in cases where the owner concludes a contract for the provision of services for the collection and removal of garbage in the absence of prescribed households, then payment for removal of solid waste should not be charged.

Following the discussion, the deputies of the Supreme Council adopted a legislative decision: payment for garbage collection will be charged strictly according to registration. Thus, the payment for the removal of solid waste is connected to the subject of payment, and not the object.

Another law-in-draft, adopted by the Supreme Council in the first reading establishes administrative responsibility in relation to specialized enterprises that unreasonably refuse to conclude an agreement on the removal of solid waste, referring to the absence of those prescribed in a private house.