Marius Cristian Brînzea · Managing Partner
30 October 20264 min read
The figures were presented at the meeting between the Guard's leadership and the heads of its commissariats from across the country, held from 28 to 30 October at Vidraru, in the presence of the environment minister, Natalia Intotero. Alongside the marked increase in the number and value of fines, the completion rate of the inspection plan rose from 88% to 90%.
Just as important, however, is how inspections are carried out. The meeting's agenda covered the use of drones to monitor areas at risk of pollution, the identification of illegal waste dumps, the documentation of situations in the field and the procedures for filing criminal complaints. The example presented - the intervention at Sintești, prepared through prior drone monitoring and cooperation with other institutions - shows the direction: from one-off checks to interventions prepared on the basis of risk analyses. Commissioner general Andrei Corlan said explicitly that the data gathered from inspections feed the risk analyses made available to the ministry.
The novelty with the most direct consequences for companies is the methodology for evaluating the commissariats, currently in its testing phase. Besides the number of inspections and sanctions, it will measure the degree to which economic operators complied after the measures imposed, as well as how well the sanctions applied hold up in court.
In practice: when an inspection ends with measures and compliance deadlines, inspectors returning to verify their fulfilment becomes the rule, not the exception - commissariats will be evaluated on precisely this criterion. And the emphasis on documenting situations in the field and on sanctions that stand in court means more solid inspection reports, harder to challenge.
Start with the documents requested at almost every inspection: waste management records, completed monthly, by waste code and reconciled with the handover documents; work only with authorised collectors and carriers and keep the traceability evidence - contracts, loading-unloading forms, annexes. Then confirm that your environmental permit is valid, with the annual endorsement obtained on time, and that you actually observe its conditions.
Reconcile your Environment Fund declarations with your waste and packaging records - discrepancies between them are easy to spot during an inspection. And if you have already had an inspection that ended with measures, treat the compliance deadlines as a priority: their re-verification is becoming a performance indicator for inspectors.
An environmental inspection is prepared before the inspector rings at the gate. Circulad'OR provides an outsourced environmental officer service and waste audits that check exactly the points above - records, traceability, the permit, Environment Fund declarations - and leave you with a clear list of what to fix. And if you have already received measures following an inspection, we can help you document compliance before the re-verification.
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