2024-07-21 14:50:05
The Ministry of Environment initiated a discussion with the representatives of the bodies exercising control over the ban on the lining of plastic bags with a thickness of up to 50 microns.
Deputy Minister Anna Mazmanyan and Head of the Strategic Policy Department of the Ministry of Environment Lusine Avetisyan discussed with the bodies responsible for the enforcement of the law the process of control and the tools needed to implement it even more efficiently.
The results of the control visits carried out during the previous month and the difficulties that arose during it were analyzed.
Let’s remember that in 2022 from January 1, the sale of plastic bags with a thickness of up to 50 microns is prohibited in trade facilities and places of trade.
According to the Code on Administrative Offenses, selling (making) goods prohibited by the Law “On Trade and Services” in trade, public catering facilities, consumer goods, agricultural product markets, kiosks, as well as in itinerant trade points and through wholesale trade, results in a fine of the specified minimum wage. in the amount of thirty times (30 thousand drams), for which the local self-government bodies are responsible.