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Vladimir Putin has approved a list of instructions following the January 23 meeting with Government members

The President instructed the Government, in cooperation with the Prosecutor General's Office, to take the following steps until June 1:

🔸analyse the laws, regulations, codes, and specifications covering the transportation, storage, and transshipment of petroleum and petroleum products by waterborne transport and regulating the prevention of spills of these products, as well as response and recovery efforts following such spills during transportation, storage, or transshipment; once the analysis is finished, proposals are to be submitted for improving relevant laws, regulations, codes, and specifications;

🔸conduct an inspection to determine if economic entities comply with the legislation of the Russian Federation covering the prevention of petroleum and petroleum products pollution during waterborne transportation, as well as response and recovery efforts following cases of such pollution, including spills, and take appropriate steps to enforce relevant legislation;

🔸conduct an inspection to assess the condition of the vessels belonging to the tanker fleet, take steps to improve their safety, and, if necessary, submit proposals for enforcing stricter control over the condition of these vessels, as well as the transportation, storage, and transshipment of petroleum and petroleum products by waterborne transport.

The Government, together with the Russian Academy of Sciences, was instructed to do the following until March 15:

🔸assess the possibility of using — and take steps to ensure the use of — domestically made equipment, technologies, research results, and experimental developments for response and recovery efforts following the emergency caused by the tanker accident in the Kerch Strait and the resulting petroleum products spill.

See more on the Kremlin’s official website.

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Vladimir Putin has approved a list of instructions following the January 23 meeting with Government members

The President instructed the Government, in cooperation with the Prosecutor General's Office, to take the following steps until June 1:

🔸analyse the laws, regulations, codes, and specifications covering the transportation, storage, and transshipment of petroleum and petroleum products by waterborne transport and regulating the prevention of spills of these products, as well as response and recovery efforts following such spills during transportation, storage, or transshipment; once the analysis is finished, proposals are to be submitted for improving relevant laws, regulations, codes, and specifications;

🔸conduct an inspection to determine if economic entities comply with the legislation of the Russian Federation covering the prevention of petroleum and petroleum products pollution during waterborne transportation, as well as response and recovery efforts following cases of such pollution, including spills, and take appropriate steps to enforce relevant legislation;

🔸conduct an inspection to assess the condition of the vessels belonging to the tanker fleet, take steps to improve their safety, and, if necessary, submit proposals for enforcing stricter control over the condition of these vessels, as well as the transportation, storage, and transshipment of petroleum and petroleum products by waterborne transport.

The Government, together with the Russian Academy of Sciences, was instructed to do the following until March 15:

🔸assess the possibility of using — and take steps to ensure the use of — domestically made equipment, technologies, research results, and experimental developments for response and recovery efforts following the emergency caused by the tanker accident in the Kerch Strait and the resulting petroleum products spill.

See more on the Kremlin’s official website.

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