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Energy Efficiency Department of the State Committee for Standardization
of the Republic of Belarus
RUE “BELINVESTENERGOSBEREZHENIE”
Sustainable Energy Scale-Up Project
Environmental and Social Management Framework
Minsk, 2018
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Contents
List of Abbreviations…………………………………………………………….....………..4
Summary……………………………………………………………………………...….….5
1. Project description…………………………………………………………………….…11
1.1 Project goal……………………………………………………………………….….…11
1.2 Description of the Project and of its components ………………………………….…..11
2. Regulatory frameworks …………………………………………………...………….....14
2.1 Environmental protection ……...………………............................................................14
2.2 Labor protection and safety …………............................................................................16
2.3 Sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population ….…………………………...16
2.4 National strategies……………………………………………………………………...17
2.5 World Bank and European Investment Bank Safeguards Policies……………………..18
2.6 Requirements for environmental and social assessment in the Republic of Belarus …..19
2.7 Comparison of the requirements for environmental and social assessment of the
Republic of Belarus and of the World Bank/the European Investment Bank……………...22
3. Institutional frameworks of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment ……......24
4. Baseline analysis ………………………………………………………………………...29
4.1 Geographical environment ……………………………………………………………..29
4.2 Socio-economic situation Baseline ………………….……………................................31
4.3 Analysis of social and gender issues ……………………………………..…………….32
4.4 Analysis of the condition of the forest fund ……………………………………………33
4.5 Thermal renovation of multi-apartment buildings ……………………..........................35
5. Analysis of environmental impact and social impact for potential types of sub-projects..37
5.1 Analysis of environmental and social impact for potential types of sub-projects under
Component 1 “Renewable wood biomass heating”……………………………………..….37
5.2 Analysis of environmental and social impact for potential types of sub-projects under
Component 2 “Thermal renovation of multi-apartment buildings (MABs)”………………39
6. Rules and procedure of environmental and social screening and assessment …..………42
6.1 Procedures of environmental and social screening of the World Bank and the European
Investment Bank ……………………………………………………………………………42
6.2 Procedures of environmental and social screening ………………………………...…..43
6.3 Preparing Environmental and Social Management Plan………………...……………44
6.4 Environmental and Social Management Plan Checklist………………………………..45
7. Guidelines for mitigation of environmental and social impacts …………………………47
8. Technical assistance for environmental and social issues …………….……...……………..48
9. ESMF Institutional arrangements and capacity building.…..……….…………………...50
9.1 Institutional arrangements for ESMF implementation ….……………………………...50
9.2 The Project Management Unit ………………………………………………………….50
9.3 Subproject beneficiaries ……………………………….…………………………..…....51
9.4 State inspection bodies …………………………………….……………...……...……..52
10. Monitoring and reporting ……………………………………….……...……...………..53
11. Grievance Redress Mechanism ………………………………………………………....54
11.1 Grievance Redress Mechanism ………………………………………………………..54
11.2 Ways of complaints submission ……..………………………………………………...54
11.3 Confidentiality and conflict of interest.………………………………….. ……...……54
11.4 Collection/receipt of complaints ………………………………………………………55
11.5 Investigation……………………………………………………………………..……..55
11.6 Answer to the Applicant ……………………………………………………………….55
11.7 Publication ………………………………………………………………………..……55
11.8 Transparency………………………………………………………………………….56
11.9 Periodic internal monitoring and reporting ………………………..……...……...……56
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11.10 Reporting in quarterly and annual reports about the progress of activity provided to the
Bank …………………………………………………………...……...……...……...……...56
12. ESMF Disclosure and public consultation ……………………..……………………….57
12.1 General requirements for disclosure of the ESMF ….……………………………........57
12.2 Results of disclosure and public consultation of the ESMF ……...……...……...…......57
Annexes
Annex 1. The main Laws regulating environmental protection, labor protection and
safety measures and sanitary and epidemiologic well-being of population in the
Republic of Belarus
Annex 2. Relevance of the World Bank and the European Investment Bank Safeguard
Policies to the Sustainable Energy Scale-Up Project
Annex 3. Objects of State Ecological Expertise
Annex 4. Objects of Strategic Environmental Assessment
Annex 5. Objects of Environmental Impact Assessment
Annex 6. Contents of the “Environmental protection” section of the design documents
Annex 7. Dynamics of forest fund indicators of the Republic of Belarus
Annex 8. Environmental and social screening criteria
Annex 9. ESMP Checklist
Annex 10. Structure of the Environmental and Social Management Plan
Annex 11. Guidelines on mitigation of environmental and social impacts
Annex 12. Training program for the experts involved in implementation of the Project
Annex 13. Monitoring forms
Annex 14. Record of complaints/inquires
Annex 15. Minutes of public hearings
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List of Abbreviations
WB World Bank
EIB European Investment Bank
PMU Project Management Unit
SEE State Ecological Expertise
HCS Housing and Communal Services
IHS Individual heat substation
MW Megawatt
RLA Regulatory legal act
EIA Environmental Impact Assessment
POSD Policy Operations in Support of Development
OM Operational Manual
ESMP Environmental and Social Management Plan
ESMF Environmental and Social Management Framework
SPZ Sanitary protection zone
MM Mass media
SEA Strategic Environmental Assessment
TR Terms of reference
TRLA Technical regulatory legal act
CHP Combined heat and power plant
EA Environmental Assessment
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Summary
Project background. Access to adequate heat supply plays a critical role in well-being of
the population of the Republic of Belarus. In view of cold climatic conditions and a long heating
period, the Republic of Belarus needs access to a reliable and acceptable heat supply source, and
thermal renovation of the housing stock. Implementation of the Sustainable Energy Scale-Up
Project will facilitate a solution to this problem to a considerable extent.
The proposed Project is aimed at support of investments in increased use of biomass for
district heating and thermal renovation of multi-apartment buildings, and at rendering of
technical assistance related thereto for development of the corresponding branch policy and
development of institutional capacity. The main expected long-term results include increased
economic use of environmentally sustainable wood biomass for district heating and showing a
viable approach to long-term financing and implementation of broad-scale Thermal renovation
of multi-apartment buildings (MABs).
The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to scale up efficient energy use in space
heating of multi-apartment buildings and renewable wood biomass fuel utilization in selected
urban localities in Belarus while the higher level Global Environmental Objective (GEO) is to
support national efforts in reducing fossil fuel consumption in space heating.
Project components. The Project contains three components as follows:
Component 1. Renewable wood biomass heating. Within the framework of this
component, it is planned to finance transfer to the use of biomass and increase of efficiency of
district heating utilities by means of the following:
- (a) biomass district heating investments: including, inter alia, conversion of inefficient
gas-fired boilers to wood-chip-fired boilers, installation of new peak gas-fired boilers,
modernization of district heating networks, installation of individual heat substations and
operational monitoring and control systems, and development of local sites for wood fuel
preparation; and
- (b) and also application of distributed heating wood biomass heating (installation of
biomass boilers in close proximity to the buildings).
Component 2. Thermal renovation of multi-apartment buildings (MABs).
Within the framework of this component it is planned to help in creation, initial
capitalization and the pilot financing scheme operation, and implementation of multi-apartment
buildings thermal renovation in two or three oblasts. This mechanism will fulfill a demonstration
function, and in case of successful implementation, such scheme will be replicated in other
oblasts and will provide a basis for creation of a sustainable national program of thermal
renovation of multi-apartment buildings (MABs).
With the aim of simplification of the financing structure, engineering design and execution
of thermal renovation, the possibility of financing of two packages of measures and one “Plus”
option will be considered.
Package of measures A will cover limited thermal renovation, including installation of
individual heat substations in the buildings, of radiator thermostats in the apartments,
replacement of entrance doors and windows at the staircases.
Package of measures B provides for integrated thermal modernization, including
installation of individual heat substations in the buildings, of radiator thermostats in the
apartments, replacement of all windows (in case they have not been replaced by the households
individually yet) and entrance doors, measures for heat insulation of exterior walls, basements
and roofs. The works for cosmetic repair of the building (for example, painting of staircases) can
be additionally included in the contents of both packages.
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The “Plus” option will include both packages of measures for the buildings, where the
homeowners make a collective decision in favor of allocation of charges for heating at the
apartment level at the cost of the use of heat energy distributors (HED).
Component 3. Technical assistance and implementation support. Within the framework
of this component it is planned to implement the following events:
- (a) biomass fuel market development; analytical work and technical assistance in
infrastructure development to ensure transfer to pricing on energy-content-based biomass
pricing;
- (b) development of the thermal renovation market, capacity building of the market
participants and the interested parties, development and implementation of communication and
awareness-raising programs; and
- (c) project management, monitoring and reporting; capacity building of the Project
Management Unit (PMU) and financing of additional operating expenses.
Project potential environmental impacts and triggered World Bank Operational
Polices (OPs). The types of activities to be implemented will have either minor or no adverse
environmental impacts and provide significant environmental and social benefits (reductions in
local atmospheric air pollution such as dust and sulfur dioxide emissions and reductions in
emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide; improving livelihoods by securing heat
supply; etc.). Negative environmental impacts are primarily associated with civil works (e.g.
dust, noise, disposal of non-hazardous wastes and/or older equipment; degradation of vegetation,
traffic disruption (depending upon specific location), worker safety (e.g. welding operations). In
most cases these impacts will be minor, short-lived, and primarily limited to the project sites
(except for movement of equipment and materials to/from the construction sites), and they can
be addressed with good engineering and construction practices as well as by preparing and
implementing adequate mitigation measures and applying best construction and/or energy supply
or energy conservation practices and relevant mitigation measures. The project triggers only one
World Bank Environmental OP 4.01 as it will generate some adverse environmental and social
impacts. The OP 4.04 “Natural Habitats” as well as OP 7.36 “Forests” are not triggered, as the
project is focused on existing infrastructure in urban areas no natural habitats and/or forests will
be impacted. The draft Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) has been
disclosed and consulted in the country and in selected participating cities prior to appraisal.
Project category and Environmental Assessment instruments to be applied within the
framework of the project. In accordance with the Bank’s safeguard policies and procedures, the
project is classified as Category B for which an Environmental Assessment (EA) with
Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) is required. A Sites pipeline has been
prepared during project preparation. Specific Sites to be financed by the proposed project will be
confirmed during implementation. The appropriate EA instrument at appraisal is an ESMF,
which would specify all rules and procedures for the Environmental and Social Impact
Assessment (ESIA) of specific Sites (e.g., a biomass DH investment or the thermal renovation of
an MAB) and preparing ESMPs. The proposed project will not finance any Sites which may
cause significant environmental impacts and may fall under the Category A projects. The Sites to
be financed under the proposed project would fall under the Category B projects, for which the
Bank requires a simple and/or a partial ESIA and/or preparing an ESMP.
Purpose and contents of the Environmental and Social Management Framework. The
ESMF will guide the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment process, relevant to the
proposed project activities. Overall its main goal is to avoid, minimize or mitigate potential
negative environmental and related social impacts caused by the project implementation. The
ESMF document provides the following: (a) the national and WB safeguards ESIA rules and
procedures; (b) environmental and social impacts associated with the proposed investments and
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generic mitigation measures; (c) guidelines on conducting Sites environmental screening, as well
as ESIA, including defining mitigation measures and monitoring activities for different types of
activities; (d) roles and responsibilities in ESIA process and in supervision and reporting; (e)
ESMP and ESMP Checklist to be applied within the ESIA process; and (f) capacity building
activities to ensure an efficient ESMF implementation. A special section of the ESMF provides
safguards capacity building activities for the selected pilot oblasts. To ensure that the biomass
comes from sustainable sources, the ESMF requires for each new Biomass boiler house that: (i)
wood chips or wood for production of wood chips by district heating utilities are supplied by
certified forestry enterprises in Belarus (as opposed to uncertified enterprises or through self-
collection of local wood resources); (ii) confirmation that there is adequate excess material
available from existing forest enterprise activities so that the increased demand for them will not
lead to changes in forest management or utilization practices (if project-related increased
demand could lead to such changes). Also, the proposed capacity building activities to be
provided under the Component 3 includes in its curricular a section on identifying Sites
environmental impacts and rules and procedures for preparing ESIA&ESMP.
Legal framework of the Republic of Belarus and the World Bank and the European
Investment Bank Safeguard Policies.
The main regulatory legal act, which governs the procedure of environmental impact
assessment, is the Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 18.07.2016 № 399-З “On state
ecological expertise, strategic environmental assessment and environmental impact assessment”.
Also, important regulatory legal acts, the requirements of which shall be considered within
the Project implementation, are the following:
- (a) the Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 16.12.2008 № 2-З “On atmospheric air
protection”; and,
- (b) the Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 20.07.2007 № 271-З “On waste
management”.
Considering nature and peculiarities of the Project, only one in ten WB Safeguard Policies
(OP/BP 4.01 Environmental Assessment) and one Environmental Standard on Environmental
Assessment EIB is triggered. The objective of this policy and standard is to ensure project
ecological safety and sustainability, provision of information to the persons, who define the
policy about the nature of environmental and social risks, and to ensure transparency and public
participation in making political decisions.
Although the main provisions, rules and procedures of the “Environmental Assessment” in
the Republic of Belarus coincide with the requirements of the WB, there exist some important
differences, described in the ESMF along with the ways to solve these discrepancies.
Rules and procedures for environmental and social screening and preparing
environmental and social management plans. Each sub-project financed within the framework
of the Sustainable Energy Scale-Up Project is subject to ecological screening and assessment,
aimed at determination of the most vulnerable environmental components and of expected
impact for each subproject, and development of mitigation (alleviation or recovery) measures.
If in the result of screening the sub-project falls into Category C, no further actions are
required. If the sub-project is categorized as Category B, further preparation of the
Environmental and Social Management Plan is required or preparation of the Environmental and
Social Management Plan Checklist. The sub-projects of Category A will not be financed within
the framework of the Project.
Most of sub-projects under Component 1 “Renewable wood biomass heating” will be
Category B as they support construction (rebuilding) of boiler houses and heat supply networks.
Respectively an Environmental and Social Management Plan, and the ESIA (if conducting of the
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ESIA is required according to the requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Belarus)
with further passing of the State Ecological Expertise will be necessary.
The sub-projects of Package of measures B and of the “Plus” under the Component 2
“Thermal renovation of multi-apartment buildings” will be qualified as Category B for which
filling in of the Checklist for Impact Assessment would be enough to address expected adverse
environmental and social impacts.
Category C will supposedly include sub-projects of Component 3 “Technical assistance
and implementation support” and Package of measures A of Component 2 “Thermal renovation
of multi-apartment buildings”, with minor civil works. Apart from screening, such sub-projects
do not require any further Environmental Assessment activities.
The Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) of the sub-project includes a set
of measures for mitigation and monitoring, and of institutional measures, which shall be taken in
the period of the project execution for remediation of unfavorable environmental and social
consequences, their neutralizing or reduction to an acceptable level.
The ESMF presents the template and the structure of the ESMP.
An alternative form of the ESMP in the form of the ESMP Checklist has been developed
for the sub-projects with a low risk level, which will ensure implementation of the main
mitigation measures and the best civil works practice, and, at the same time, preparing a
document which is corresponding to the WB and the EIB requirements.
Project Management Unit. The PMU will hire a Safeguards Specialist (SS) who will
oversee overall coordination of individual ESMF and ESMP implementation, reporting to the
Energy Efficiency Department and to the World Bank regarding safeguards issues, as well as of
integrating safeguards requirements into binding contractual documents. This specialist will also
be responsible for interaction with the environmental authorities, ensuring an efficient
implementation of safeguards documents and will undertake, randomly, site visits and
environmental supervision and monitoring, assessing environmental compliance at worksites,
advising project entities on environmental and social safeguards issues. The PMU SS will also be
responsible for identifying ESA training needs for all parties involved in ESMF/ESMP
implementation.
Beneficiary district heating companies. The DHCs are responsible for fulfillment of the
environmental and safeguards requirements and implementation of the Site specific ESMP. For
that purpose, the DHCs will assign and/or hire a safeguards responsible person who should have
the following responsibilities: (a) ensuring the quality of the ESIAs and ESMPs; (b) ensuring the
EA documents have been (i) disclosed and consulted with all interested parties and (ii) have been
reviewed and approved by the State Ecological Expertise; (c) ensuring that contractors comply
with all ESMP requirements; (d) conducting ESMP supervision and monitoring and assessing
environmental and social impacts and efficiency of mitigation measures, as well as identifying
non-compliance issues or adverse trends in results, and putting in place programs to correct any
identified problems; (e) when needed, providing advice and consulting contractors in ESMP
implementation; and, (f) reporting to the PIU with regard to ESMP implementation.
Project Implementation Units of selected oblasts for the thermal renovation pilot. The
thermal renovation component will be implemented by the PMU with support of oblast PIUs and
MCAs. Each PIU will also include a SS, whose main duties would be to ensure that the thermal
renovation activities are implemented in compliance with the World Bank Safeguards
Operational Policies and national EA rules and procedures. The major responsibilities of the PIU
SS will be similar as for those specified above for beneficiary district companies. The additional
responsibility for this SS will be conducting at the initial stage of the subproject development
environmental screening and assigning the subprojects’ environmental category. The PIU SS
will cooperate with the PMU.
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Contractors’ responsibilities. The actual investments will be carried out by contractors
selected through the public tendering process. They should operate in full compliance with
national environmental and social legislation and with the ESMPs requirements. Further, the
contractors are obliged to follow regulatory requirements of the national law related to traffic
safety, occupational health and safety; fire safety; environmental protection; and community
health and safety. All activities associated with ESMPs will be financed by the contractors. The
contractors will also be requested to designate a person in charge of environmental, social, health
and safety issues and for implementing the ESMP.
ESA capacity building activities. The implementation of the ESMF requires specific
knowledge for beneficiaries and operators engaged in the different phases of the project
implementation. The project will support relevant trainings for social safeguards specialists on
knowledge and information on topics such as the ESMF implementation, ESMF/ESMP
reporting, World Bank Guidelines etc. For this purpose, before the civil works start, the client
will hire a consultant with knowledge of the environmental and social management requirements
for the Republic of Belarus, including substantial knowledge of Bank safeguards policies and
requirements, who will provide EA training which will include the basic requirements of the
World Bank and national safeguards rules and procedures, as well as case studies in this regard
(a detailed Program for EA capacity building is provided in the special Annex of the ESMF with
a total cost of about US$62,000). The training activities will continue during the project
implementation when the consultant will provide on the job training regarding environmental
and social monitoring and supervision. Since the PIUs will be newly established, it is expected
they will not have adequate knowledge of safeguards issues. Taking this into consideration, the
project will support a special EA capacity building program, targeted at providing special
training to PIUs’ safeguards specialists to be hired, including helping in drafting relevant
regulations and templates.
Environmental and social supervision and monitoring. Environmental and social
supervision and monitoring during project implementation will provide information about the
project environmental impacts and the effectiveness of applied mitigation measures. Such
information enables the subproject beneficiaries and the World Bank to evaluate the success of
mitigation as part of project supervision and allows corrective action to be taken when needed.
The monitoring section of the ESMPs should provide: (a) details, of monitoring measures,
including the parameters to be measured, methods to be used, sampling locations, frequency of
measurements; and, (b) monitoring and reporting procedures to (i) ensure early detection of
conditions that necessitate mitigation measures, and (ii) furnish information on the progress and
results of mitigation, and achieved results; and also (c) description of institutional responsibilities
and grievance mechanism.
Reporting. Supervision of the ESMF and ESMPs implementation will be the
responsibility of the PIUs, which periodically (as per monitoring schedule) will prepare short
reports on ESMP implementation to be submitted to the PMU. The PMU will compile these
reports and semi-annually will present short information about ESMP implementation as part of
the Progress Reports to the World Bank.
Integration of the ESMPs into project documents. The ESMP provisions will form part
of the design documents for the project and will be included in construction contracts for
selected Sites, both into specifications and bills of quantities. Respectively the Contractors will
be required to include the cost of ESMP requirements in their financial bids and required to
comply with them while implementing the project activities. The bidding documents for
selecting the contractors will include specifications that would ensure effective implementation
of environmental, health and safety performance criteria by the winning bidder and in particular:
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(i) preventing/limiting disturbance of soils and vegetation removal to the minimum; (ii)
preventing soil compaction as well as other potential impacts; (iii) ensuring that all ground
disturbing activities are conducted consistent with the construction requirements; (iv) developing
a traffic management plan that include measures to ensure work zone safety for construction
workers and the travelling public; (v) conducting all activities on installing new electrical
equipment, implementing civil works, etc., will be done with due care, ensuring labor safety; and
(iv) ensuring that the traffic management plan is be approved by the Traffic Police prior to
commencement of any construction/repair works; etc. The contract with the winning bidder will
include also an obligation to inform the relevant authorities of any significant environmental,
health and safety accidents and events among subcontracted project workers.
ESMF Disclosure and public consultation.
The draft ESMP report was disclosed and consulted in Minsk and in participating oblasts.
The consultation meeting in Minsk with the interested parties took place on October 5, 2018, at
RUE “Belinvestenergosberezhenie” at the following address: 12 Dolgobrodskaya str., Bldg. 2N.
The draft document together with an announcement about holding of the consultation meeting
was posted on the websites of RUE “Belinvestenergosberezhenie”; the Energy Efficiency
Department of Gosstandart and Oblast Executive Committees of Brest, Vitebsk, Gomel, Grodno,
Minsk and Mogilev Oblasts from September 12 till September 15, 2018. All interested parties
have been invited to send their comments and suggestions to RUE
“Belinvestenergosberezhenie”, the organization responsible for conducting of public discussions,
not later than October 1, 2018, by mail: 12 Dolgobrodskaya str., Bldg. 2N, 220037, Minsk, to e-
mail: [email protected] or by phone 352-58-25. Possible comments and suggestions of the interested
parties with respect to the ESMF had been not received by RUE “Belinvestenergosberezhenie”
till the specified time.
The PMU “Belinvestenergosberezhenie” participated in the consultation meeting, as well
as developers of the ESMF, for whom presentation of the document was held. Representatives of
the Oblast Executive Committees, non-governmental organizations and other interested parties
did not take part in the consultation meeting. The presentation included overall overview of the
document, description and explanation of national procedures for the Environmental and Social
Impact Assessment, including differences of national procedures and Safeguard Policies of the
World Bank/the European Investment Bank, and clarifications on drawing-up of the
Environmental and Social Management Plans (ESMPs). All participants at the consultation
meetings overall accepted the document without any major comments.
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1. Project description
1.1 Project development objective
The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to scale up efficient energy use in space
heating of multi-apartment buildings and renewable wood biomass fuel utilization in selected
urban localities in Belarus while the higher level Global Environmental Objective (GEO) is to
support national efforts in reducing fossil fuel consumption in space heating.
1.2 Description of the Project and of its components
The proposed project will support investments in scaling up wood biomass-based
district/central heating and thermal renovation of MABs, as well as associated technical
assistance for the development of relevant sector policies, for institutional capacity and for
supporting project implementation. The main outcomes sought are increased economical
utilization of renewable wood biomass for centralized space heating and increased households’
participation in thermal renovation investments in MABs.
The proposed Project is aimed at support of investments in increased use of biomass for
district heating and thermal renovation of multi-apartment buildings, and at rendering of
technical assistance related thereto for development of the corresponding branch policy and
development of institutional capacity. The main expected long-term results include increased
economic use of environmentally sustainable wood biomass for district heating and showing a
viable approach to long-term financing and implementation of broad-scale Thermal renovation
of multi-apartment buildings (MABs).
The Project contains three components as follows:
Component 1: Renewable wood biomass heating. This component will support fuel-
switching and efficiency improvement of district/central heating systems in selected urban
localities through:
1.1. Biomass district heating investments: including, inter alia, conversion of
inefficient gas-fired boilers to wood-chip-fired boilers, installation of new peak gas-fired boilers,
modernization of heat networks, installation of individual heat substations and operational
monitoring and control system, and creation of local sites for wood fuel preparation;
1.2. Application of distributed biomass heating: at locations where the decentralized
biomass heating option is more economical than simple fuel switching of the existing gas-fired
district heating systems, distributed heating using wood pellet-fired boilers close to the buildings
would be considered; and
1.3 Biomass heating for public institutions (e.g., schools, hospitals) with isolated
heating systems: where wood biomass fuel supply is secure, installation of modern wood pellet-
fired boilers and rehabilitation of dilapidated heating systems.
Component 1 will invest in all six oblasts of Belarus, targeting inefficient DH systems in
small- and medium-sized towns, as well as inefficient central heating systems in public
institutions not connected to DH systems. In both cases, reliable and sustainably sourced wood
biomass supplies are a pre-condition for investment.
Component 2: Thermal renovation of multi-apartment buildings. This component will
support the implementation of the government’s national program for thermal renovation of
MABs by piloting a partially repayable grant scheme in two oblasts selected by the government
and the Bank. For the pilot of the proposed partially repayable grant scheme IBRD and EIB loan
proceeds will be used to pre-finance the full cost of thermal renovation projects. Homeowners of
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participating MABs (determined by more than two-thirds of the homeowners in an MAB voting
in favour of the investment) are obliged to repay a pre-determined portion of the full cost of
thermal renovation through instalments for up to 10 years.
To simplify the technical design and facilitate communications with homeowners
regarding thermal renovation, two thermal renovation packages will be offered to target the
lower and higher ends of the potential energy savings corresponding to the proposed government
capital grant levels, respectively, prioritizing measures with higher cost-effectiveness. Package A
would include measures that would be eligible for a 30 percent government capital grant. This
would cover limited thermal renovation, including building-level substations or mixing loops,
TRVs and necessary piping retrofit in individual apartments, upgrading of entrance doors and
staircase windows, and other associated low-cost measures, including necessary capital repairs1.
Package B would include measures that would be eligible for a 50 percent government capital
grant. This would, in addition to Package A measures, generally include thermal insulation of the
roof, exterior walls, and basement, as well as upgrading of individual apartment windows (for
which the homeowners themselves need to cover the full cost)2. The installation of heat cost
allocators (HCAs) and implementation of apartment-level consumption-based billing will be
included in both packages as an option for homeowners since individual apartment heat billing is
not a mandatory (regulatory) requirement.
Component 2 will primarily target MABs which have been identified by the participating
oblast governments for capital repairs. Each oblast government has a rolling 5-year pipeline of
MABs eligible for capital repairs3. This will facilitate the selection of buildings, increase the
impact of the capital repair program and the thermal renovation pilot by upgrading the targeted
buildings to an “as new” condition, and take advantage of synergies and cost savings by
implementing both capital repairs and thermal renovation at the same time. MABs not included
in the capital renovation pipeline may also participate in the proposed project if they meet the
eligibility criteria based on specific heat consumption of the building. All eligibility criteria will
be clearly described in the Project Operations Manual (POM).
Component 3: Technical assistance and implementation support. This component will
provide focused technical assistance to the two-selected thermal renovation pilot oblasts and for
overall project implementation support, including:
3.1. Biomass fuel market development (: analytical work and technical assistance for
developing national regulation on energy-content-based biomass pricing;
3.2. Thermal renovation market development and implementation support:
development and implementation of communications and outreach programs to homeowners,
capacity building for national and oblast government agencies, market participants and
stakeholders (e.g., administrators of thermal renovation projects, homeowners’
associations/organizations, contractors and commercial banks);
3.3. Development and introduction of a monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV)
system for GHG emissions reduction in space heating as a result of thermal renovation, switching
from fossil fuels to sustainable wood biomass, and other energy efficiency measures; and
1 The capital repairs are those eligible for the government’s capital repair program (see footnote 8). 2 Survey indicates that over 80 percent of the windows in MABs are already upgraded by homeowners using their
own funds. 3 The government has an on-going capital renovation program targeting basic repairs of buildings based on a 30-yr
capital repair cycle, as well as actual issues reported by homeowners. In general, it covers the most dilapidated
buildings in the MAB stock, which also tend to be among the least energy efficient. The purpose of the capital
renovation program is to restore the buildings to their original design standards, for examples, repair or replace a
leaky roof, reseal the joints between panels (of panel buildings), replacing malfunctioning equipment, etc. It does
not explicitly address heat losses of buildings, although certain measures (e.g., repair of a freezing wall or replacing
a roof) will reduce heat losses. More details about the capital renovation program are provided in Annex 2.
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3.4. Project management, monitoring and reporting: (i) training for the national
Project Management Unit (PMU), Project Implementation Units (PIUs) in the two selected pilot
oblasts; (ii) consultant services to support the PMU, PIUs and the DHCs in the implementation
and supervision of the project, including annual multi-stakeholder dialogues which share
information and opinions between end-users from public institutions and MAB homeowners
which benefited from the project and discuss how end-users’ recommendations are considered;
and (iii) consultant services for annual financial audits of the project accounts and other
consultant services. The monitoring and reporting will include a well promoted and easily
accessible grievance redress mechanism building upon the BDHP’s recently-upgraded grievance
redress mechanism and further supporting and improving the efficient management of inquiries
and complaints – in particular related to the thermal renovations and grant scheme.
2. Regulatory frameworks
2.1 Environmental protection
Environmental policy implemented at the state level is one of the key elements of
sustainable development of the Republic of Belarus.
The basis of the whole legislation of the Republic of Belarus about environmental
protection is the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus, which ensures the right of each human
for the favorable environment and for compensation of harm inflicted by violation of this right.
The state controls rational use of environmental resources with the aim of protection and
improvement of living conditions, and environmental protection and reclamation.
On grounds of the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus, a series of laws on
environmental protection was passed, in particular:
– Laws of the Republic of Belarus “On atmospheric air protection”, “On waste
management”, “On hydrometeorological activities”, “On plant world”, “On the protection of the
ozone layer”, etc.;
– Codes of the Republic of Belarus: “Water Code of the Republic of Belarus”, “Land Code
of the Republic of Belarus”, “Code of the Republic of Belarus on Subsoil Resources”, “Forest
Code of the Republic of Belarus”.
One of the main regulatory legal acts is Law of the Republic of Belarus “On environmental
protection” dated November 26, 1992 № 1982-XII (as amended on 17.12.2017) (hereinafter –
the Law). This Law establishes legal foundations of environment protection, ecosystem
exploitation, preservation and restoration of biodiversity, natural resources and objects and is
aimed at safeguards for constitutional right of citizens for the environment, which is favorable to
life and health. The Law also establishes that the right for favorable environment belongs to the
citizen by nature and is subject to protection as personal non-property right not connected with
the property right, in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the
Republic of Belarus. Moral damage inflicted on the citizen by infringement of his right for
favorable environment is subject to compensation according to the legislation of the Republic of
Belarus.
The Law determines that the main tasks of the legislation of the Republic of Belarus about
environmental protection are the following:
– ensuring favorable environment;
– regulation of relations in the sphere of conservation of natural resources, their use and
restoration;
– prevention of a harmful impact of business and other activities on the environment;
– environmental quality improvement;
– ensuring rational (sustainable) use of natural resources.
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According to the Law, state administration in the sphere of environmental protection is
executed by the President of the Republic of Belarus, the Council of Ministers of the Republic of
Belarus, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental protection of the Republic of
Belarus and its territorial bodies, other specially authorized republican state administration
bodies and their territorial bodies, local Council of Deputies, executive and regulatory bodies
within the scope of their competence.
Parties to a relationship in the sphere of environmental protection are the following:
– The President of the Republic of Belarus, Council of Ministers of the Republic of
Belarus, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental protection of the Republic of Belarus,
local Councils of Deputies, executive and regulatory bodies (executive committees), and other
state bodies, bodies of territorial public self-government within their competence;
– non-governmental organizations, other legal bodies of the Republic of Belarus, and
citizens of the Republic of Belarus, including individual entrepreneurs.
Objects of relations in the sphere of environmental protection are land (including soils),
subsoil resources, water, atmospheric air, ozone layer, near-Earth space environment, forests,
vegetable and animal world in its species diversity, specially protected nature conservation areas
and natural sites subject to special protection, national environmental network, biosphere
reserves, typical and rare natural landscapes and biotypes, climate, natural ecological systems,
other natural objects, and also the right of ecosystem exploitation.
The Law establishes competence of state administration bodies, specially authorized
republican state administration bodies in the sphere of environment protection, rights and duties
of citizens, legal bodies, public ecologists and non-governmental organizations executing
activity in the sphere of environment protection.
A special group of regulatory legal acts, which govern the issues of environment
protection, are edicts and decrees of the President of the Republic of Belarus, which have a legal
force of laws.
Various sub-legislative regulatory legal acts play a major role for ensuring a mechanism of
law execution. They include Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus,
various industry-specific regulatory documents, and technical regulatory legal acts of the
Republic of Belarus (TRLA).
The main regulatory legal acts, which settle the issues of environmental protection in the
Republic of Belarus, are presented in Annex 1.
The main regulatory legal act, which governs the procedure of environmental impact
assessment, is the Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 18.07.2016 № 399-З “On state
ecological expertise, strategic environmental assessment and environmental impact assessment”.
Environmental Impact Assessment, which includes taking into account possible
transboundary impact, is conducted according to the procedure, stipulated by the Provision about
the Procedure of Conducting Environmental Impact Assessment, requirements to the contents of
the report about Environmental Impact Assessment, requirements to the specialists conducting
the Environmental Impact Assessment approved by Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the
Republic of Belarus dated 19.01.2017 № 47 “About some measures for implementation of the
Law of the Republic of Belarus from 18.07.2016 “About the state ecological expertise, strategic
environmental assessment and environmental impact assessment”.
Also, important regulatory legal acts, the requirements of which shall be considered in the
course of the Project implementation, are the following:
– The Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 16.12.2008 № 2-З “On atmospheric air
protection”;
– The Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 20.07.2007 № 271-З “On waste management”.
During the Project implementation, it is necessary to take into account the main principles
of these laws, namely:
– compulsory assessment of the impact of business and another activity on atmospheric air
while making decisions about its carrying out;
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– acceptability of the impact of business and another activity on atmospheric air taking into
account requirements in the sphere of atmospheric air protection;
– imposition of charges for pollution emissions in the atmospheric air while carrying out
business and another activity;
– setting limits in the sphere of atmospheric air protection;
– prevention of atmospheric air pollution and environmental harm;
– redress of harm inflected on the environment by pollution emissions in the atmospheric
air;
– availability of ecological information about the state of atmospheric air, impact on it and
measures aimed at its protection;
– setting limits on production waste generation and also setting limits on production waste
storage and limits on production waste burial;
– the use of the latest technological advance while handling of waste;
– priority of use of waste in respect of its neutralization or burial upon the condition of
compliance with the requirements of the legislation on environmental protection;
– priority of waste neutralization in respect of their burial;
– imposition of charges for production waste dumping;
– responsibility for violation of environmental requirements at Waste management;
– redress of harm inflicted on the environment, citizens’ health, property at Waste
management;
– ensuring access to the information in the sphere of Waste management for legal bodies
and individuals, including for individual entrepreneurs.
The Republic of Belarus is a participant of about 20 international conventions in the sphere
of environmental protection.
The main international document in the sphere of Environmental Impact Assessment
signed by the Republic of Belarus is Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus dated
20.10.2005 № 487 “On ratification by the Republic of Belarus of the Convention on
environmental impact assessment in a cross-border context”.
2.2 Labor protection and safety
The legislation of the Republic of Belarus on labor protection is based on the Constitution
of the Republic of Belarus, which guarantees to the citizens of the Republic of Belarus the right
to labor as the most decent way of self-affirmation of the human, and also health and safe
working conditions, and consists of the Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 23.06.2008 № 356-
З “On labor protection”, the Labor Code of the Republic of Belarus, the Civil Code of the
Republic of Belarus, and also departmental (branch) regulatory legal acts, including technical
regulatory legal acts, governing public relations in the sphere of labor protection.
Law of the Republic of Belarus “On labor protection” is aimed at regulation of public
relations in the sphere of labor protection and exercise of a right of the citizens for health and
safe working conditions established by the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus. If the
international treaty of the Republic of Belarus establishes other rules than those, which are in this
Law, then the rules of the international treaty are applied.
The main regulatory legal acts, governing the sphere of labor protection and safety
measures in the Republic of Belarus, are presented in Annex 1.
Labor protection management provides for solution of the main tasks;
– ensuring optimum work and rest conditions of workers;
– investigation and outreach of issues of labor protection;
– assuring security of buildings and structures;
– creation of corresponding psychological production support;
– arrangement of corresponding sanitary and hygienic labor conditions;
– provision of workers with personal protective equipment;
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– organization of medical and preventive servicing of workers;
Labor protection divisions and safety organizations are created for functioning of safety
management systems at the enterprises.
2.3 Sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population
The legislation in the sphere of sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population is
based on the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus and consists of the Law of the Republic of
Belarus dated 07.01.2012 № 340-З “On the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the
population” and other pieces of legislation, and international treaties of the Republic of Belarus.
Sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population is ensured by means of the
following:
– implementation of state and regional programs in the sphere of sanitary and
epidemiological welfare of the population;
– prevention of disease distribution considering sanitary and epidemiologic situation and
its projected change;
– carrying out of sanitary and epidemiological measures by state bodies, other
organizations, physical bodies, including individual entrepreneurs;
– compliance with the legislation in the sphere of sanitary and epidemiological welfare of
the population by state bodies, other organizations, physical bodies, including individual
entrepreneurs;
– setting state sanitary and epidemiological limits;
– confirmation of compliance of the human habitat factors with the requirements of the
legislation in the sphere of sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population, including
safety requirements and requirements of harmlessness to the human organism, and also of the
use and (or) development and approval of corresponding methods (methodologies) of the
specified factors determination;
– state sanitary and hygienic expert review;
– state registration;
– social and hygienic monitoring;
– sanitation-and-epidemiological audit;
– manufacturing control;
– the use of scientific achievements in studying health status of the population, human
environment;
– provision of information about sanitation-and-epidemiological situation, state of the
human environment, carried out sanitation and epidemic measures;
– carrying out of measures for hygienic education and upbringing of the population;
– forming healthy lifestyle;
Sanitary norms and rules, hygienic regulations are a part of the legislation in the sphere of
sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population.
It is compulsory for state bodies, other organizations, physical bodies, including individual
entrepreneurs, to observe sanitary norms and rules, hygienic regulations.
Sanitary norms and rules, hygienic regulations are approved by the Ministry of Health of
the Republic of Belarus.
Sanitary norms and rules, hygienic regulations, applied at conducting construction activity,
are approved by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus by agreement with the
Ministry of Architecture and Construction of the Republic of Belarus.
The main regulatory legal acts, governing the sphere of sanitary and epidemiological
welfare of the population in the Republic of Belarus, are presented in Annex 1.
2.4 National strategies
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The main national strategies in the sphere of environmental protection and social sphere
are the following:
– National Strategy of Sustainable Socio-Economic Development of the Republic of
Belarus for the period till 2020 (approved by the National Commission on Sustainable
Development of the Republic of Belarus (protocol № 11/15пр dated 6.05.2004) and by the
Presidium of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus (protocol № 25 dated
22.06.2004);
– Strategy in the Sphere of Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus for the
period till 2025 (approved by Decision of the Collegium of Ministry of Natural Resources and
Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus № 8-Р dated 28.01.2011);
– Strategy of the Republic of Belarus for Gradual Phase-out of Hydrochlorofluorocarbons
for the period till 2020 (approved by Decision of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of
Belarus dated 13.03.2013 №06/214-62).
– Water Strategy of the Republic of Belarus for the period till 2020 (approved by Decision
of the Collegium of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the
Republic of Belarus № 72-Р dated 11.08.2011);
– State Program “Environmental Protection and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources for
2016 – 2020” approved by Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus
№205 dated 17.03.2016;
– State Program “Energy Saving” for 2016–2020 approved by Resolution of the Council of
Ministers of the Republic of Belarus dated 28.03.2016 № 248.
The basis of all strategies is substantiation of strategic aims, stages and scenarios of
transfer of the country to sustainable development, determination of the most important
directions and ways of transfer of the Belarusian economy to sustainable development in respect
of the main constituents – “human–environment–economy”.
2.5 World Bank and European Investment Bank Safeguards Policies
Environmental Assessment and implementation of the sub-projects offered for inclusion in
the Sustainable Energy Scale-Up Project shall be carried out both according to the requirements
of the legislation of the Republic of Belarus in the sphere of environmental protection,
occupation health and safety, safety measures and sanitary-epidemiological welfare of the
population, and according to the corresponding safeguard policies, manuals and standards of the
World Bank and the European Investment Bank .
According to the safeguards policies of the World Bank and environmental and social
standards of the European Investment Bank, Environmental Assessment is the process preceding
the project implementation stage, in the course of which:
– potential ecological risks of the project are assessed, as well as its impact;
– project alternatives are investigated;
– ways of improvement of selection, location, planning, designing and implementation of
the project are revealed by means of prevention, minimization, alleviation or recovery of harm
inflicted by a negative ecological impact, and by means of a positive impact improvement.
Environmental Assessment includes processes of alleviation and management of negative
environmental impact in the course of the project implementation. Conducting of Environmental
Assessment is compulsory for the projects, which can render a potential negative impact.
Moreover, holding public consultations is compulsory at all process stages. In case when project
activities, which are subject to financing, cannot be determined at the project development stage,
the Banks use the Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF), which reflects
detailed information about the procedure, criteria and responsibility for preliminary
Environmental Assessment (screening) of the sub-projects, implementation and monitoring of
environmental and social assessments of the sub-project.
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There exist ten safeguard policies of the World Bank and ten of the European Investment
Bank environmental and social standards, which are well harmonized among them and aimed at
reduction of environmental and social negative consequences of the projects financed by these
institutions (see the box below):
WB safeguards Policies EIB environmental and social standards
OP/BP 4.01 Environmental Assessment; Assessment and management of
environmental and social impacts and risks
OP/BP 4.04 Natural Habitats; Pollution prevention and abatement
OP/BP 4.37 Safety of Dams; Biodiversity and ecosystems
OP/BP 4.36 Forests; Climate-related standards
OP/BP 4.09 Pest Management; Cultural heritage
OP/BP 4.11 Physical Cultural Resources; Involuntary resettlement
OP/BP 4.10 Indigenous Peoples; Rights and interests of vulnerable groups
OP/BP 4.12 Involuntary Resettlement; Labour standards
OP/BP 7.50 Projects on International
Waterways;
Occupational and public health, safety and
security
OP/BP 7.60 Projects on Disputed Areas. Stakeholder engagement
Provisions of the safeguard policies and standards of the World Bank and the European
Investment Bank allow to determine potential impacts of the project activity, to minimize and to
mitigate their negative consequences.
Analysis of applicability of the World Bank Safeguard Policies and standards in respect of
the Sustainable Energy Scale-Up Project is presented in Annex 2.
So, taking into account nature and peculiarities of the offered sub-projects, the following
policy will be used at their preparation and implementation:
– World Bank and European Investment Bank Safeguard Policy and standard of
Environmental Assessment. The aim of this safeguard policy is to facilitate provision of
environmental safety and sustainability, provision of information to the persons who determine
the policy about the nature of ecological and social risks, and also ensuring transparency and
public participation in making political decisions. This policy/standard is umbrella policy and
provides the details on triggering other safeguards policies/standards and the requirements that
are necessary to be specified in the ESMF and of the site specific ESIA and ESMPs.
2.6 Requirements for environmental assessment in the Republic of Belarus
There is no term “Environmental Assessment" in the legislation of the Republic of Belarus.
But the principles and the procedure for the conduct of the following are legislatively determined
in the republic:
– State Ecological Expertise (SEE) of the projects;
– Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA);
– Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).
Implementation of these procedures corresponds to the essence of the “Environmental
Assessment” adopted in many countries of the world.
Legislation in the sphere of the State Ecological Expertise, Strategic Environmental
Assessment and Environmental Impact Assessment consists of the Law of the Republic of
Belarus dated 18.07.2016 № 399-З “On state ecological expertise, strategic environmental
assessment and environmental impact assessment”, acts of the President of the Republic of
Belarus and other legislative acts about the State Ecological Expertise adopted in compliance
with them, taking into account determined by Law of the Republic of Belarus “On environmental
protection” main principles of conducting business and another activity of legal bodies and
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citizens having an impact on the environment.
Herewith, if the international treaty of the Republic of Belarus lays down other rules than
those, which can be found in Law № 399-З, the rules of the international treaty of the Republic
of Belarus are applied.
Law № 399-З determines objects of the State Ecological Expertise – art. 5, objects, for
which the Strategic Environmental Assessment is carried out – art. 6, and objects, for which the
Environmental Impact Assessment is carried out – art. 7. The list of these objects is presented in
Annexes 3-5.
The State Ecological Expertise is carried out with observance of the following main
principles:
– prevention of harmful environmental impact;
– compulsory carrying out of the State Ecological Expertise before approval of design and
other documents for the objects of the State Ecological Expertise;
– considering of the total harmful environmental impact of conducted and planned business
and another activity;
– accuracy and completeness of the information in the design and other documents
submitted for the State Ecological Expertise;
– legality and neutrality of conclusions of the State Ecological Expertise;
– publicity and considering public opinion.
The State Ecological Expertise is carried out by the organizations subordinate to the
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection (State Educational Institution
“Republican Center of State Ecological Expertise and Raising of Qualification of Executive
Employees and Specialists” of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection),
the staff of which includes the specialists, who have undergone training for carrying out the State
Ecological Expertise and correspond to the requirements set by the Council of Ministers of the
Republic of Belarus.
The State Ecological Expertise is carried out on a paid basis according to the procedure
established by the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus.
The Environmental Impact Assessment, which includes taking into account possible
transboundary impact, is organized, financed by the Employer and is conducted according to the
procedure, stipulated by the Provision about the Procedure of Conducting the Environmental
Impact Assessment, requirements to the contents of the report about the Environmental Impact
Assessment, requirements to the specialists conducting the Environmental Impact Assessment
approved by Resolution of the Council of Ministers dated January 19, 2017 № 47 (hereinafter –
Provision about the EIA)..
The main conditions of the Environmental Impact Assessment are the following:
– prevention, which means carrying out of the impact assessment before deciding about
planned activity implementation and the use of the results of this assessment at development of
design solutions for ensuring environmental safety;
– presumption of potential environmental hazard of the planned activity;
– alternativeness, which means analysis of different variants of location and (or)
implementation of the planned activity, including refusal of its implementation (zero alternative);
– comprehensiveness, which means considering total environmental impact of executed
and planned activity;
– timeliness and efficiency of public information, publicity and considering public opinion
on the issues of impact of the planned activity on the environment.
– neutrality and scientific validation at preparation of the report about the EIA;
– accuracy and completeness of the information used for making grounded decisions,
considering environmental and economic efficiency and principles of sustainable development.
The EIA is carried out by the employers, the design organizations, the staff of which
includes the specialists, which have undergone training for conducting the Environmental Impact
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Assessment and the corresponding requirements set by the Government of the Republic of
Belarus.
The results of carrying out the EIA are reflected in the Report drawn up according to the
requirements set by the Provision about the EIA.
The report about the EIA undergoes public discussions according to the legislation about
the environmental protection. Provision “On the procedure public discussions on projects of
ecologically significant decisions, environmental impact assessment reports, registration of the
made ecologically significant decisions” has been approved by Resolution of the Council of
Ministers of the Republic of Belarus dated 14.06.2016 № 458.
The report about the EIA is presented for the State Ecological Expertise together with the
pre-Project (pre-investment) design documents.
Law № 399-З, art. 24 also determines the rights of citizens and legal bodies in the sphere
of carrying out the State Ecological Expertise, the Strategic Environmental Assessment and the
Environmental Impact Assessment, namely:
“1. In the sphere of carrying out the State Ecological Expertise, the Strategic
Environmental Assessment and the Environmental Impact Assessment, citizens and legal bodies
have the right:
1.1. to request and to receive information about carrying out the State Ecological
Expertise;
1.2. to participate in public discussions of the reports on Environmental Impact
Assessment, environmental reports on the Strategic Environmental Assessment;
1.3. to become familiar with the summary of reviews and the record of public discussions
of reports about the Environmental Impact Assessment, environmental reports on the Strategic
Environmental Assessment and also with the documents sent for the State Ecological Expertise
(except for the data, access to which is limited by legislative acts);
1.4. to appeal to a court the report about the Environmental Impact Assessment, the
environmental report on the Strategic Environmental Assessment, the conclusion of the State
Ecological Expertise.
2. Citizens and legal bodies in the sphere of conducting the State Ecological Expertise, the
Strategic Environmental Assessment and the Environmental Impact Assessment have other
rights stipulated for by this Law and other legislative acts”.
For construction sites (erection, reconstruction (modernization), thorough overhaul and
restoration of buildings, constructions, engineering and transportation lines, improvement of the
construction site of production (including agricultural), housing and civilian designation, housing
projects and other types of construction on the territory of the Republic of Belarus, including
those, which are not subject to the State Ecological Expertise and for which the Environmental
Impact Assessment is not carried out; it is compulsory to develop as a part of the design
documents the section “Environmental Protection” (Technical Code of Common Practice TKP
45-1.02-295-2014 “Construction. Design Documents. Composition and Content”), which is one
of the most important sections of the design documents, since it determines the safety level of the
designed site on the environment and on human health.
Contents and procedure of drawing up this section is regulated by guide П3-02 to
construction rules of Belarus SNB (Construction Standards of the Republic of Belarus) 1.03.02-
96 approved by order of the Ministry of Architecture and Construction of the Republic of
Belarus dated 20.06.2002 №273. Contents of section “Environmental Protection” of the Design
Documents are presented in Annex 6.
Qualitative development of the Environmental Protection section is not only guarantee of
successful and safe functioning of the site but will also help to exclude during its operation
possible problems with the bodies of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental
Protection, the Ministry of Health and citizens of the nearest inhabited localities.
It is provided for by the legislation that the design and estimate documents are subject to
the State Expertise, which is carried out on a paid basis in cases and according to the procedure
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established by the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus, unless otherwise determined
by the President of the Republic of Belarus. Objects of the State Expertise, procedure and cases
of carrying out the State Expertise of the documents are determined by the Provision approved
by Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus dated 30.09.2016 №791.
Carrying out of the State Expertise is ensured by the State Committee for Standardization
of the Republic of Belarus, if favorable conclusions of the State Ecological Expertise and the
State Expertise of Energy Efficiency are available in cases established in accordance with the
legislation.
Law of the Republic of Belarus dated July 5, 2004 № 300-З “On architectural, town-
planning and construction activity in the Republic of Belarus” establishes the right of individuals
to request and to receive in the state bodies the information (details, data, documents) necessary
for execution of the specified activity, to offer proposals, to participate in discussions and in
making decisions in the sphere of architectural, town-planning and construction activity.
Informing of individuals and legal bodies about architectural, town-planning and
construction activity is executed by republican state administration bodies, local executive and
regulatory bodies, government construction oversight authorities through mass media and also
by ensuring regulated access to data of the town-panning cadaster, developed and approved
town-planning designs, conducting public discussion of town-planning designs, organization of
expositions, exhibitions and execution of these events.
Procedure of conducting public discussions in the sphere of architectural, town-planning
and construction activity based on the principle of choice of convenient for citizens time and
place of conducting is determined by Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of
Belarus dated 01.06.2011 №687.
According to the specified Provision, town-planning designs, design documents and other
documents are subject to public discussions. Public discussions are executed before carrying out
of the state expert examinations.
Procedures of ecological and social screening of the sub-projects conducted by the World
Bank and by the European Investment Bank and their correlation with the EIA procedures are
considered in section 6 of this Framework Document.
2.7 Comparison of the requirements for environmental assessment of the Republic of
Belarus and of the World Bank and the European Investment Bank
Though the main provisions, rules and procedures of the environmental assessment in the
Republic of Belarus coincide to some extent with the safeguards requirements of the World Bank
and the European Investment Bank, there exist some important differences.
Differences in respect of environmental definition of the categories.
In the legislation of the Republic of Belarus on environmental protection, there exists a
formal system of categorization of the EIA and the State Ecological Expertise (SEE), which
requires that the projects rendering potential environmental impact shall have the EIA and a list
of measures for alleviation of the adverse effect as a part of the design documents. That means, if
the sub-projects have a potential environmental impact, for most them it will be required to
prepare the EIA and, correspondingly, – to pass the State Ecological Expertise. Nevertheless, it
does not mean that all projects that shall pass the SEE will be referred to Category A. Some
projects can be referred to Category B according to the requirements of the World Bank and the
European Investment Bank, but it will not exclude passing of the SEE according to the national
legislation.
According to Law № 399-З, there exists a list of the objects, which require passing of the
State Ecological Expertise, the Strategic Environmental Assessment and the EIA,
correspondingly.
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At present, according to the national legislation, only development of the section
“Environmental Protection” as a part of the design documents is required within the framework
of the projects, which do not require development of the EIA and passing of the SEE.
So, the scope of the project Environmental Assessment shall be determined in each specific
case during preliminary approval of the project activities place and their specifications. In case
the requirements of the national legislation and of the World Bank/the European Investment
Bank are different, more stringent requirements will be applied.
Differences in respect of the ESMP.
According to the legislation of the Republic of Belarus, development of the corresponding
mitigation measures is required for all projects, which have a negative impact on the
environment. But the national legislation does not require preparation of the detailed
Environmental and Social Management Plan, which, in addition to offered mitigation measures
contains requirements to the monitoring plan and accountability, and institutional cooperation
during the ESMP implementation. Herewith, compulsory conducting of trainings and workforce
capacity building is not required. So, in case of Category B of the sub-projects, the beneficiaries
will have to use the requirements of the World Bank and the European Investment Bank and to
prepare not only the list of mitigation measures, but the detailed ESMP with all its elements as
well.
Differences in respect of information disclosure and public consultations.
According to the national legislation of the Republic of Belarus, publication of the EIA and
public consultation exercise is compulsory mainly for large projects. At the same time, the public
may organize on its own initiative the Public Environmental Expert Review (PEER). A specialist
or a group of specialists, who carry out such environmental expert review, shall inform a wide
range of the public about carrying out of this expert review and its results. Such specialist or a
group of specialists have the right to receive the design documents and the EIA materials, and to
become familiarized with the regulatory technical documentation in respect of carrying out of the
SEE. The PEER results are sent to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental
Protection. Results and conclusion of the PEER are non-regulatory and can have legal force only
after approval by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection and are
considered at carrying out of the SEE. Results of the PEER can be published in mass media and
can be provided to local authorities and to other interested parties.
In case of the environmental assessment, according to the rules of the World Bank and the
European Investment Bank, the Employer is responsible for exercise of at least one public
consultation for the sub-projects of Category B or for discussion of issues and events specified in
the ESMP or the ESMP itself overall. So, for the sub-projects of Category B, the Project
Management Unit will consider materials of public consultations conducted in preparation of the
EIA according to the national legislation and will determine to what extent they satisfy the
requirements of the World Bank and the European Investment Bank. If according to the national
legislation public consultations are satisfactory, other consultations are not required. But in case
public consultations were not conducted at all, or if the PMU makes a decision that the materials
of public consultations are not sufficient for fulfillment of the requirements of the World Bank
and the European Investment Bank, the Employer will have to conduct at least one public
consultations and to discuss an environmental impact and consequences of the design activities
for local population and also to include these results in the contents of the ESMP. All materials
on public consultations shall be sent to the PMU as a part of the general set of documents with
respect to each sub-project. The ESMP shall be available for the public in the district of the sub-
project implementation, on the PMU’s web-site and, if possible, on the Employer’s web-site.
General comparison of the main requirements of the World Bank and the European
Investment Bank Operational Policy ОР 4.01 to the environmental assessment of the site, offered
to financing, at the cost of the Bank’s funds, and of the requirements of the environmental
regulation of Belarus to conducting of the EIA, despite the availability of some differences
concerning the list of the sites, with regard to which the environmental impact assessment is
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carried out, as well as the environmental assessment procedure, procedure for public
consultations of the projects and of their quantity, shows their similar direction.
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3. Institutional frameworks of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment
State bodies, which can be engaged in the process of the environmental and social impact
assessment within the framework of the Project implementation, are listed below.
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of
Belarus
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus
(hereinafter – Minprirody) is the republican state administration body and is subordinate to the
Government of the Republic of Belarus. The main tasks of the Ministry of Natural Resources
and Environmental Protection are the following:
– operating the unified state policy in the sphere of environmental protection and rational
use of natural resources, use and conservation of subsoil resources, and hydrometeorological
activity according to the legislation;
– exercising state control in the sphere of study, protection, restoration and rational use of
natural resources, including subsoil resources, water, animal and vegetable world, environmental
protection, and state regulation in the sphere of hydrometeorology, ecological certification;
– coordination of activities of other republican state administration bodies, local executive
and regulatory bodies, organizations in the sphere of environmental safety provision,
environmental protection and rational use of natural resources, including subsoil resources,
hydrometeorological activity, protection of atmospheric air, ozone layer, rational use and
protection of water resources, mitigation of consequences of climate change and adaptation to
climate change;
– conduct of state regulation of activity on geological survey of subsoil resources and
hydrometeorological activity, and creation of conditions for development of organizations of all
forms of ownership, exercising these types of business activity;
– cooperation within its competence with local executive and regulatory bodies in solving
nature protection issues;
– control in the sphere of environmental protection and rational use of natural resources;
– ensuring preservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, participation in development
and implementation of activities on reproduction of items of the animal and vegetable world;
– ensuring provision of ecological and hydrometeorological information to republican state
administration bodies, local executive and regulatory bodies, citizens; dissemination of
environmental knowledge, participation in creation of the system of awareness, education and
training in the sphere of environmental protection;
– exercise of international cooperation, study, generalization and distribution of
international experience in the sphere of environmental protection and rational use of natural
resources, hydrometeorological activity, and protection of atmospheric air, ozone layer, rational
use and protection of water resources, mitigation of consequences of climate change and
adaptation to climate change, ecological certification.
State organizations, which are subordinate to the Ministry of Natural Resources and
Environmental Protection, are the following:
– State Educational Institution “Republican Center of State Ecological Expertise and
Raising of Qualification of Executive Employees and Specialists” of the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus. Conducts the State
Ecological Expertise, further training of executive employees and specialists in the sphere of
environmental protection and rational use of natural resources, including hydrometeorological
activity, ecological certification and ecological audit, carrying out the State Ecological Expertise,
the Strategic Environmental Assessment and the Environmental Impact Assessment.
– The state institution National Center for Analytical Monitoring in Environmental
Protection. Exercises analytical (laboratory) control in the sphere of environmental protection
regarding samples collection and conduct of measurements in the sphere of environmental
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protection, exercises environmental monitoring, prepares information about the results of
environmental monitoring and analytical control for provision to the republican state
administration bodies, local executive and regulatory bodies, legal bodies and citizens.
– State Institution “Republican Center for Hydrometeorology, Control of Radioactive
Contamination and Environmental Monitoring” (BELHYDROMET). Prepares analytical
information about the state of the environment and its contamination, creates radiation situation
maps on the territory of the Republic of Belarus, ensuring provision of the latest, performance
and forward-looking information about the state and environment pollution to the republican
state administration bodies, and also local executive and regulatory bodies, regularly publishes
information for public organizations and the population in the printed media about the state of
the environment and its pollution.
Territorial bodies of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection are
the following:
– seven Committees of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection (CNRandEP):
Minsk City CNRandEP, Vitebsk City CNRandEP, Brest Oblast CNRandEP, Gomel Oblast
CNRandEP, Grodno Oblast CNRandEP, Mogilev Oblast CNRandEP,, Minsk Oblast
CNRandEP;
– district inspections of natural resources and environmental protection. Tasks and functions of the CNR and EP are the following.
– participation in operating the unified state policy in the sphere of environmental
protection and rational use of natural resources, use and conservation of subsoil resources;
– exercising state administration, innovation activity of rational use of natural resources
and environmental protection within its competence;
– coordination of activities of the state bodies (other state organizations) in the sphere of
environmental safety provision, including at implementation of design solutions on planned
business and another activity, environment protection and rational use of environmental
resources;
– control in the sphere of environmental protection and rational use of natural resources,
over usage and conservation of subsoil resources;
– provision of ecological information to state bodies, other organizations and citizens,
organizing dissemination of knowledge, participation;
– participation in effecting of international cooperation, study, generalization and
distribution of international experience in the sphere of environmental protection and rational use
of natural resources, regulation of impact on the climate;
– coordination of activities of local government bodies, executive and regulatory bodies,
legal bodies, notwithstanding forms of ownership and subordination, on rational use of natural
resources and environmental protection;
– monitoring of observance of environmental safety standards, use and protection of
surface and ground waters, earth resources, atmospheric air, vegetable and animal world,
specially protected natural areas and sites, handling of production and consumption wastes;
– environmental policy making and exercising integrated control over nature protection
activities on the controlled territory.
Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus
Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus (hereinafter – MinHeath) is the republican
state administration body and is subordinate to the Government of the Republic of Belarus:
The system of bodies and institutions of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus,
which exercise state sanitary supervision, includes the following:
– Department for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Prophylaxis of the Ministry of Health of the
Republic of Belarus;
– Republican, Regional Centers for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Public Health;
– Minsk city, district, area, district in the cities centers for hygiene and epidemiology;
– Republican Unitary Enterprise “Scientific and Practical Centre of Hygiene”.
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Among others, the solved issues are the following: monitoring of an unfolding sanitation-
and-epidemiological situation on the administrative territory, sanitary supervision in form of
preventive and current supervision over implementation of the legislation, which regulates the
issues of sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population, by organizations, individuals,
including individual entrepreneurs.
Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Republic of Belarus
Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Republic of Belarus is the republican state
administration body, which pursues state policy, exercises administration in the sphere of labor
and labor protection, employment of population, social protection. The main tasks of the
Ministry of Labor and Social Protection include the following:
- development of proposals on the main directions and priorities of the state policy in the
sphere of labor, employment, demographic safety and social protection;
– participation in development and organization of social programs execution, control over
their implementation;
– organization and carrying out of monitoring in the sphere of labor, employment,
demographic safety and social protection;
– work on improvement of the staff remuneration scheme of the organizations, financed
from the budget, state employees, military men, members of private corps and senior officers of
internal affairs bodies, bodies and departments on emergency situations, financial investigation
bodies;
– development of the republican target program on improvement of conditions and labor
protection, and regulatory legal acts on conditions and labor protection;
– conducting expert examination of labor conditions and state control over correctness of
usage of lists of production, activities. professions, capacities and indices granting the right for
pension for work with special labor conditions, establishing additional payments for work under
harmful and (or) dangerous labor conditions and control over quality of carrying out workplace
assessment according to the labor conditions;
– development of proposals for improvement of the social partnership system, the main
directions of its development, and participation in development of the general agreement project
between the Government of the Republic of Belarus and republican associations of employees
and trade unions;
– control over implementation of the National Demographic Security Programme;
– analysis of condition and use of labor resources and employment of population,
development of prognosis evaluation of the labor market condition;
– organization and coordination of implementation of state and regional programs for
employment support of the population;
– organization of state supervision and control over compliance with the labor legislation.
The structure of the central apparatus of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection
includes the Department of State Labor Inspectorate. Provision about the Department has been
approved by Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus dated 29.07.2006
№ 959. Tasks of the Department of State Labor Inspectorate are the following:
– supervision over compliance with the legislation on labor and labor protection;
– detection and restraint of violation of the legislation on labor and labor protection.
The system of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection also includes subdivisions of
oblast and Minsk City Executive Committees exercising state and authoritative powers in the
sphere of labor, employment and social protection, and territorial bodies of the Department.
Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus
Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus (MES) is the republican state
administration body, which exercises regulation and control in the sphere of prevention and
management of emergency situations of natural and technogenic occurrence and civil defense,
ensuring fire safety, industrial, nuclear and radiation safety, mitigation of consequences of the
Chernobyl disaster, creation and safeguarding of state and mobilization material reserves, and
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also regulation in the sphere of safety of shipping of small ships on the inland water-ways of the
Republic of Belarus.
The main aims and tasks:
– organization of activities for emergency management and participation in emergency
management;
– participation in implementation of the state policy in the sphere of prevention and control
of emergencies, civil defense and ensuring the fire safety;
– within its competence, in support of functioning of state systems for prevention and
control of emergencies, civil defense and ensuring the fire safety, systems for monitoring and
forecast of emergency situations;
– coordination, within its competence, of activity of state bodies, other organizations in the
sphere of prevention and control of emergencies, civil defense and ensuring the fire safety;
– exercise of state supervision, control, licensing and other special functions in the sphere
of protection of the population and territories from emergency situations, civil defense and
ensuring the fire safety;
– civil defense administration.
Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Belarus
Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Belarus (hereinafter – Ministry of Forestry) is the
republican state administration body and is subordinate to the Government of the Republic of
Belarus.
The main tasks of the Ministry of Forestry are the following:
– implementation of state regulation functions in the sphere of forestry;
– operating the unified state policy in the sphere of use, protection, safeguard of the state
forestry fund and regeneration of forests, coordination of activities in this sphere of other
republican state administration bodies, local executive and regulatory bodies, legal bodies,
irrespective of ownership forms;
–forest planation, ensuring creation and cultivation of plants based on widely used
technological advance with the aim of satisfying to the fullest extent possible the requirements of
the economy and of the population in all types of forest products:
– state control over condition, use, protection, safeguard of the state forestry fund and
regeneration of forests;
– exercise of measures aimed at conservation and protection of forests;
– operating the unified state policy in the sphere of forest growing, ensuring creation of
necessary conditions for effective work of legal bodies, which are under the supervision of the
Ministry.
Ministry of Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Belarus
Ministry of Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Belarus (hereinafter –
Ministry of Housing and Communal Services) is the republican state administration body and is
subordinate to the Government of the Republic of Belarus.
The main tasks of the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services are the following:
– formation and implementation of state policy in housing and communal services and
coordination of activities in this sphere of other republican state administration bodies, other
state organizations subordinate to the Government of the Republic of Belarus.
– exercise of state regulation of activity of the housing and communal services regarding
management of the state housing stock, use and safeguard of state and private housing stock;
– operating the single scientific and technological policy for development and functioning
of objects of housing and communal services, funeral arrangements, and on the issues of
construction, reconstruction, operation, maintenance and repair of streets of inhabited localities;
– timely, full and qualitative provision of the set of housing and utilities services to the
consumers;
– operating economic and scientific and technological policy with the aim of creation of
necessary conditions for effective work of state organizations, which are subordinate to the
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Ministry of Housing and Communal Services, and of organizations of the communal form of
ownership of the housing and communal services system, satisfaction of the requirements of the
national economy and of the population in housing and utilities services, improvement of quality
and extension of these services nomenclature.
The management structure of the housing and communal services includes the Ministry
of Housing and Communal Services, the corresponding subdivisions of local executive and
regulatory bodies, state associations, republican (except for the organizations included in the
Ministry of Energy), oblast, city and district communal unitary enterprises.
Infrastructure facilities of the housing and communal services refer to state ownership and
are in ownership of administrative-territorial units (communal property). The procedure of
control and disposition of the communal property is determined by the corresponding Councils.
Organizations of housing and communal services rendering services for heat supply of the
population are, as a rule, specialized or multi-activity unitary enterprises established by local
(city or district) executive and regulatory bodies (executive committees), to which the communal
property belongs on the basis of economic control rights and who own, use and dispose of this
property within the boundaries determined according to the legislation. Local executive committees
Competence of executive committees of different levels, including in the sphere of the housing
and communal services and servicing, is established by Law of the Republic of Belarus dated
04.01.2010 №108-З (rev. 04.01.2016) “On local government and self-government in the Republic of
Belarus”. As far as the new project is concerned, Executive committees:
– draw up and introduce for approval to the Councils projects of regional programs, concepts
(executive committees of the primary level – projects of action plans) on the issues of housing
construction, beautification of the corresponding territory, environmental protection and rational use
of natural resources, improvement of conditions and labor protection, radiation safety assurance,
protection of historical and cultural legacy and on other matters of local significance, ensure their
implementation;
– dispose of the communal property and also exercise control over its use on the corresponding
territory;
– dispose of environmental resources and take measures aimed at ensuring their protection and
rational use;
– organize discussion on the corresponding territory of important issues of local and republican
significance;
– inform citizens and organizations about the state of things on the corresponding territory on
matters of local significance;
– organize heat supply of the population on the corresponding territory;
– resolve issues of placement of construction objects on the corresponding territory;
– hold activities on protection of historical and cultural legacy;
– exercise control in the spheres of municipal-domestic and social service of citizens,
environmental protection and rational use of natural resources, labor protection, radiation safety
assurance, protection of historical and cultural legacy and in other spheres, which concern matters of
local significance, including departmental control.
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4. Baseline analysis
4.1 Geographical environment
The Republic of Belarus is an independent unitary state situated in the Eastern Europe,
with the territory of 207,6 thousand km2. It borders in the west with Poland, in the northwest –
with Lithuania, in the north – with Latvia, in the east and in the northeast – with Russia, in the
south – with Ukraine.
The country does not have access to the sea, but due to its geographical location Belarus is
an important trade and transportation corridor between Europe and the CIS countries. The
territory of the country is mainly even. Sparse highlands, which refer to Belarusian Ridge, do not
exceed in height 300 m (Minsk Highland – 345 m, Novogrudok Highland – 323 m, Oshmyany
Highland – 320 m). An average height of the surface of Belarus makes 160 m.
The north of the republic is occupied by Belarusian Lake District (Belarusian Poozeriye),
the largest part of which is occupied by Polotsk Lowland (absolute altitudes are 110-150 m),
surrounded on all sides by ridges and highlands, and in the southeast – by Chashniki Plain.
Eastern Lake District (Eastern Poozerye) is occupied by Luchosa Lowland and Surazhskaya
Lowland, which are separated by Vitebsk Highland (up to 295 m). Narochansko-Vileyskaya
Plain, surrounded by Minsk, Oshmyany and Sventsyany Highlands, is situated in the southwest
of Poozerye. A part of Srednenemanskaya Lowland, Verkhneberezinskaya and
Verkhnevileyskaya Lowlands also belong to Poozerye.
Belarusian Ridge includes Volkovyssk, Grodno, Minsk, Novogrudok, Orsha, Oshmyany,
Slonim Highlands and Kopyl Ridge. Belarusian Ridge is surrounded by Baranovichi,
Bykhovsko-Checherskaya, Goretsko-Mstislavskaya (plateau-like), Lida, Orshansko-
Mogilevskaya, Stolbtsy and Tsentralnoberezinskaya Plains, and also Verkhnenemanskaya
Lowland. Narevo-Yaseldinskaya and Pribugskaya Plains, and also Belovezhskaya Ridge are
situated in the southwest of BrestOblast. The district to the south of Belarusian Ridge is
combined into conventional PredPolesie, and Orsha Highland, Orshansko-Mogilevskaya and
Goretsko-Mstislavskaya Plains – in the geomorphological region of Eastern-Belarusian Plain.
The south of Belarus is occupied by Polesie, which is primarily of plain nature (absolute
altitudes are 120-150 m). From the geographical point of view, Polesie is divided (from west to
east) into Brestskoye, Pripyatskoye, Mozyrskoye and Gomelskoye. Multiple ancient inland
dunes rise above Polesie, which formed Mozyr Ridge (up to 208 m), Yurovichy Ridge, Logishin
and Khoiniksko-Braginskaya Highlands, and also Zagorodye Plain.
The territory of Belarus is situated within the west region of the north temperate zone and
has a moderately continental climatic pattern. Geographic latitude of location of the territory
between 56° and 51° of northern latitude determines the sun angle, which, in its turn, influences
the amount of incoming solar radiation.
Moderately-continental climate with frequent Atlantic cyclones, with mild and humid
winter, warm summer, damp autumn prevails in Belarus. An average annual air temperature is
from +7,4 °С in the southwest to +4,4 °С in the northeast. An average temperature of January
ranges from - 4 °С to - 8 °С, of July – from +17 °С to +19 °С. Average duration of vegetation
period is 184 – 208 days. Climatic conditions of Belarus are favorable for cultivation of the main
cereal crops, vegetables, fruit trees and bushes of the midland of the Eastern Europe and also for
cultivation of potato, linen flax, annual grasses, feeding root crops.
Atmospheric pressure gradually rises from the north and the northwest to the south and the
southeast. For example, in Vitebsk it is equal to 994,9 Pa, in Gomel– 1001,5 Pa. Average
pressure at sea level makes 1013,2 Pa. Maximum pressure over the whole territory of the country
is set in January. In summer pressure reduces over the warmed-up land. Within the territory of
Belarus, atmospheric air drop is from the west to the east. The lowest atmospheric pressure on
the territory of the country is recorded in July.
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Annual atmospheric air stroke leads to the fact that that winds of west and north-westerly
directions prevail in summer. Periodical alternation of zonal western air-mass transport to
meridional transfer is observed in the system of general atmospheric circulation, with air masses
displacement from the south to the north or from the north to the south. Atmosphere circulation
nature determines the type and characteristics of air masses coming to the territory of the
country.
Air temperature on the territory of the country is characterized by variability and
changeability. Minimum average monthly temperatures are observed in January and maximum –
in July. Long-time average annual temperature of January in Minsk is -6,9 °С, but quadrennially
it drops lower than -9 °С or higher than -4 °С. Long-time average annual temperature of July in
Minsk is +17,8 °С, but once in 30 years it exceeds +30 °С.
Air mass circulation and thermal conditions determine peculiarities of hydrological cycle
and precipitation regime, Annual absolute humidity course coincides overall with the annual
cycle of temperature: maximum is observed in summer, minimum – in winter. Relative humidity
reaches the maximum level during the winter period and makes 88-90%, and in summer and in
spring it falls to 65-70%. Annual average relative humidity is about 80%. The lowest relative
humidity of air (about 30%) is observed in May and in June, which leads to dry weather
(especially in the southeast of the country).
The territory of Belarus is situated in the sufficient moistening zone. Relief and cyclonic
activity nature affect distribution of precipitation. The amount of precipitation is increased on the
highlands, especially on their back slopes. Lowlands and downwind slopes of highlands receive
significantly fewer precipitations. Annual amount of atmospheric precipitations makes 550-650
mm on the lowlands and 650-750 mm on the plains and on the highlands.
Forest resources of Belarus hold a key position among its natural resources. Forestlands
occupy the area of more than 9 thousand ha, which makes 38,8 % of the whole territory of the
country.
Bogs occupy about one third of the whole territory of the country, they are especially
widely-spread in Polesskaya and Pridneprovskaya Lowlands. Pripyat bogs, which are the largest
boggy district in Europe, occupy the territory of 39 thous. km2 in the south of Belarus in Polesie.
Belarus is rich in water resources. There are more than 20 thousand rivers on its territory,
the total length of which is 90 thousand kilometers. The largest rivers are the Dnieper River
(with feeders Pripyat, Sozh, Berezina), Western Dvina, Viliya, Goryn, Western Bug, Neman
combined by a number of canals (Dnieper-Bug, Dnieper-Neman, Berezinsky). Rivers in Belarus
belong to the basin of the Black (58% of the territory) and the Baltic Seas (42% of the territory).
About 93 % of all rivers belong to small (with the length up to 10 km). River run-off during the
average water years amounts to 57,9 km3. Water impurity index of the main Belarusian rivers
fluctuates from “moderately clean” to “moderately contaminated”.
There are about 11 thousand lakes in Belarus, their total area is about 2 thousand km2,
Total water volume is about 6 km3. Most of lakes are situated in the north and in the northwest.
There are six protected by the state conservation areas on the territory of Belarus – four
national parks and two reserves:
– Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park;
– Braslav Lakes National Park;
– Narochansky National Park;
– Pripyatsky National Park;
– Polesie State Radioecological Reserve;
– Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve.
Also, about a hundred of nationwide wildlife sanctuaries are on the territory of the
republic.
Ecology of Belarus suffered from the Chernobyl disaster more than other countries.
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4.2 Socio-economic baseline
According to statistical data, the population of Belarus made 9491,8 thous. people at the
beginning of 2018. Of them, 7394,1 thous. people (77,9%) is urban population, and 2097,7
thous. people (22,1%) – rural. In gender relations 46,58% of the population are men and 53,42%
are women. The greater part of the population resides on the territory of the largest in the country
Minsk agglomeration. The largest cities are Minsk and Gomel.
Ethnic structure: 84% – the Belarusians, 8,3% – the Russians, 3,1% – the Poles, 1,7 – the
Ukrainians, 3,2% – representatives of other nationalities. Denominational composition of the
population: about 59% of the Belarusians consider themselves to be religious (2011), of them 82
% refer themselves to the Orthodox denomination, 12 % – to the Catholic denomination, 6% – to
other denominations (Protestants, Moslems, Jews). In total, there are 25 denominations in
Belarus.
Age distribution is the following:
– people younger than 15 years – 14,2% or 1347,8 thous. people (of which 51,4% are men,
48,6% are women);
– people at the age from 15 to 65 years – 71,7% or 6805,6 thous. people (of which 48,4%
are men, 51,6% are women);
– people older than 65 years – 14,1% or 1338,3 thous. people (of which 31,7% are men,
68,3% are women).
Elderly people and people of ripe years prevail in the age structure. The number of
pensioners at the end of 2017 made about 2.6 mln. people (27,4% of the total amount of
population).
Average expected lifespan at birth: of men – 65,6 years, of women – 77,2 years.
In Belarus, about 99,7% of the total amount of the adult population (older than 15 years)
can read and write in some language, about 0,3% of the adult population remain illiterate.
Literacy rate among the men adult population amounts to 99,79%, among the women adult
population – 99,68%. Total literacy rate among the youth (population at the age from 15 to 24
years inclusively) is 99,84%, for men and for women, correspondingly, 99,82% and 99,86%.
The state governs the relations between social, national and other communities based on
the principles of equality under the law, respect of their rights and interest (article 14 of the
Constitution of the Republic of Belarus).
In respect of the administrative and territorial division, the Republic of Belarus is
subdivided into 6 oblasts (Brest, Grodno, Minsk, Vitebsk, Mogilev and Gomel) and 118 districts.
The capital of the republic is the city of Minsk, which is also the separate administrative-
territorial unit along with the oblasts. The population of the republic lives in 202 cities and urban
settlements and 23181 rural-type settlements.
Belarus is an industrial and agricultural country. The most developed branches of industrial
production in Belarus are machine building, metal working, chemical and petrochemical
industry, mining industry (potassium and rock-salt mining), electrical energy industry, food,
light, wood processing and forestry industry. Agriculture holds an important place in the
economy of the country and ensures almost 8% of the GDP (Gross Domestic Product), in which
about 10% of the whole working population of the country is engaged. The Russian Federation is the most important partner of Belarus in terms of external trade.
The transport network facilitates development of the economy of the republic. But the economy
of the republic depends on energy supply to a large extent.
The most important direction of the state policy in the country is further increase of level
and quality of life of the population. Positive dynamics of growth in the population’s incomes
has been observed in the country in recent years. The share of the disadvantaged population, i.e.
of the citizens having the per capita income lower than the minimum subsistence budget, has
decreased from 42% in 2000 to 5,9% in 2017.
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4.3 Analysis of social and gender issues
The Republic of Belarus is a socially oriented state. The system of legal guarantees and
benefits for vulnerable segments of the people is widely developed in the Republic of Belarus, as
well as the system of state targeted social assistance, which is aimed at rendering temporary
material support to financially disadvantaged citizens and families who are in hardship and is
aimed at supporting of the disadvantaged citizens’ income at the level of the minimum
subsistence budget on the average per capita.
Also, the system of granting benefits for payment for housing and utilities services
according to Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 14.06.2007 № 239-З (as amended on
09.01.2017) “On state social benefits, rights and guarantees for certain categories of citizens” is
implemented in the country.
The main beneficiaries under the Sustainable Energy Scale-Up Project will be all
population strata residing in the multi-apartment buildings and using the district heating system.
At this stage, the project provides for introduction of additional benefits for socially vulnerable
segments of the people. Nevertheless, socially vulnerable segments of the people are also
beneficiaries of the project.
Implementation of the Sustainable Energy Scale-Up Project will help to create additional
workplaces for the population, and to provide conditions for provision of permanent (or
additional) income for vulnerable segments of the population for needy families, the
unemployed. Appearance of additional workplaces for the population with low quality of life
will help them to increase incomes, to improve quality of life and living standards, welfare and
to increase opportunities for satisfaction of basic needs.
Implementation of the Sustainable Energy Scale-Up Project will also help all segments of
the population to reduce expenditures on payment for housing and utilities services (for heat
energy).
Disseminating information to the population about social benefits from the Project
implementation, and taking into account wishes and remarks of the population will be executed
in the course of holding of public hearings.
Article 32 of the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus establishes that “Women are
provided with equal with men possibilities in getting education and professional training, in
labor and professional advancement (work), in social and political, cultural and other scopes of
activity, and also arrangement of conditions for their labor protection”.
The task of the gender politics in the republic is achievement of real gender equality,
establishing gender balance in all spheres of the society’s life.
The National plan of actions for provision of gender equality in the Republic of Belarus for
2017 – 2020, which is the fifth program document in this direction, was approved by Resolution
of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus dated 17.02.2017 № 149.
Sequential implementation of national plans of actions for ensuring gender equality,
activities of government programs on different aspects of improvement of women’s status
allowed the Republic of Belarus to make decisive progress in settling the issues of equal rights
and possibilities both inside the country, and on the international arena.
30-percent representation of women at the decision level is ensured in the Republic of
Belarus by declared international documents. According to the results of election to the National
Assembly of the Republic of Belarus in 2016, the proportion of women increased and made
33,7% of the total aggregate membership of deputies of the House of Representatives and
members of the Council of the Republic.
Active measures of labor policy at the state and oblast level facilitated decline in women’s
unemployment: the level of registered unemployment made 0,7% among women and 1,2%
among men.
The principles of gender equality supported by the state will be complied with in the
course of implementation of the Sustainable Energy Scale-Up Project.
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4.4 Analysis of the status of the forest fund
Forests are one of the main renewable natural resources and one of the most important
national wealth in the Republic of Belarus. Forests and forest resources are of considerable
importance for sustainable socio-economic development of the country, provision of its
economic, energetic, ecological and food safety. In terms of key indicators characterizing the
forest fund (forest cover of the territory, the area of forests and the stand of growing wood in
equivalent to one citizen). Belarus is included in top ten of forest countries of Europe. All forests
in the Belarus are exclusive ownership of the state.
While successfully implementing the principles of inexhaustible multi-target use, the forest
sector of Belarus is of great importance for stable functioning of the forest sector of the country,
facilitates development of related branches of the economy, makes a strong contribution in
performance of signed by the country international treaties of global level in the sphere of
environmental protection. Its economic, ecological and social role keeps steadily growing. All of
this affords ground to say that under modern conditions the forest sector turns from the
traditional resource-based industry into the infrastructure industry, one of the key industries in
the national economy complex, in particular, in rural districts of the country.
As a result of focused effort for regeneration of forests and forest growing, a positive
dynamic of the forestry fund has been reached. So, in the period from 1994, quantitative and
qualitative indicators of forests have improved.
– forested area has increased to 889,2 thous. ha from 7371,7 thous. ha to 8260,9 thous. ha;
– forest cover of the republic’s territory has reached 39,8% (has increased to 4,3%);
– the total standing crop has increased to 702,8 mln cub. m and has made 1796,0 mln cub.
m (incl. in ripe and old-growth stand – to 250,4 mln cub. m and has amounted to 296,0 mln cub.
m);
– stock on 1 ha of covered with the forest lands has increased to 69 cub. m and has made
217 cub. m per 1 ha; the stock of ripe and old-growth stand has increased to 54 cub. m and has
reached 267 cub. m per 1 ha;
– average age of stand has increased from 44 to 56 years.
Dynamics of the forest fund indicators of the Republic of Belarus is presented in Annex 7.
The main principles of organizing forest exploitation
The forestry of the republic functions under the conditions of exclusive state property for
forests, centralized forest administration and forest exploitation. The main principles of
organizing forest exploitation in Belarus are determined by the following regulatory documents:
– State Program “Belarusian Forest” for 2016-2020;
– National Strategy of Sustainable Development of the Republic of Belarus;
– Forest Code of the Republic of Belarus.
The mentioned documents determine the following aims of organizing forest exploitation:
– rational, inexhaustible and continuous use of forests;
– ensuring relatively constant forest exploitation within the forest fund for subjects of
forests management;
– exercise of ecologically sound (environmentally compatible) forest exploitation.
Among others, the following tasks are completed for the enumerated aims:
– ensuring reliable restoration and further regeneration of forests;
– observing ecological requirements in organizing multi-target forest exploitation:
preservation of forest environment, biodiversity, minimizing damage of ground vegetation, etc.;
– rational integrated use of wood and of other products derived at forest exploitation (for
this purpose, organization of complete added-value wood processing with the aim of product
recovery with the highest share of added value, complete waste utilization, incl. for the needs of
the energetics).
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Implementing in practice the principles of sustainable forest management and forest
exploitation, the forestry ensures not only constant forest exploitation within annual wood
increase, but also economic safety of the state, stable functioning of the national economy.
Forest exploitation is an economic basis of forest management and determines its intensity
level. It is presented by different types of use, predominantly harvesting of wood.
Harvesting of wood is exercised at final and intermediate felling – intermediate cutting,
selective sanitary felling and conversion cut. Regeneration felling and felling for planting
formation (restocking felling), sanitary felling, mopping, forest clearance for construction of
pipelines, roads, power lines and communication, other facilities are also carried out.
Timber harvesting
For 2017, 17,9 mln cub. m of merchantable wood has been harvested from all types of
felling in the Ministry of Forestry system, which is 2,8 mln cub. m more than in 2016.
For 2017, sale of round wood by forestry enterprises at the internal market made 12,4 mln
cub. m (133% to the similar period of the last year), including 7,9 mln cub. m of industrial wood
or 64% of the total turnover, 4,4 mln cub. m of cord wood or 36% of the total turnover.
Correspondingly, for January-March 2018 sale of round wood made 3,8 mln cub. m (139% to
the similar period of the last year), including 2,6 mln cub. m of industrial wood or 68% of the
total turnover, 1,2 mln cub. m of cord wood or 32% of the total sales revenue.
Sale of commercially dry lumber at the internal market for 2017 made 415,0 thous. cub. m
and increased in comparison with the similar period of the last year to 49,1 thous. cub. m, or
113%, correspondingly for January-March 2018 made 109,1 или 123% to the similar period of
2017.
7,2 mln cub. m (143,8%) of wood fuel was prepared in 2017, which includes production of
chip fuel of 1,8 mln cub. m. About 7 mln cub. m of wood fuel was sold, including 1,8 mln cub.
m of chip fuel.
There are no signs in the Republic of Belarus that demand for wood fuel can be a
determining factor at the wood fuel market. Because of disadvantages related to transportation,
transfer and storage, wood is harvested predominantly locally. A considerable part of wood fuel
supply is usually comprised of by-products of wood processing, manufacture of furniture, waste
of the construction sector and waste of the forestry industry, in particular, waste wood and chip,
which shall not be used for other commercial purposes.
Demand for wood fuel will be specified within the framework of a certain sub-project
implementation. But the figures presented above show that an additional demand for wood fuel
created in the course of the sub-projects implementation will be very insignificant in comparison
with annual wood procurement in the Republic of Belarus, and with the market volume.
So, execution in practice by forest enterprises of the Republic of Belarus of the principles
of sustainable forest breeding and forest reproduction allows to implement to the full Component
1 “Renewable wood biomass heating” within the Sustainable Energy Scale-Up Project.
Forest certification
Sustainable forest management is the main condition of development of the timber
complex of the country, increase of quality and improving of competitiveness of forest products
at the external market.
Forest certification is one of the activity areas of the Ministry of Forestry, which facilitates
ensuring productive capacity and sustainability of growing stock, increase of biodiversity in the
forests, minimization of a negative impact of forestry production on the environment, increase of
an export potential of the forest branch, removal of technical barriers in the international trade.
Forest certification is carried out according to the requirements of the international scheme
of the Forestry Stewardship Council FSC and within the framework of the Forest Certification
System of the National system of confirmation of conformity of the Republic of Belarus
recognized by the Pan European Forest Council (PEFC).
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Taking into account the requirements of the international scheme of the Forestry
Stewardship Council (FSC), 90 forestry enterprises or 7,7 mln. ha of the forest fund (92,1% of
the whole forest fund of the Ministry of Forestry) was certified as of January 1, 2017.
Forest administration and forest exploitation systems of 93 forestry enterprises of the
Ministry of Forestry over the area of 7,9 mln. ha of the forest fund were certified according to
the PEFC scheme.
Works on performing of annual audits for confirmation of certification requirements
fulfillment will be continued in 2018. Carrying out of forest certification within the framework
of the Forest certification system of the National system of confirmation of conformity of the
Republic of Belarus. The Forest certification system of the National system of confirmation of
conformity of the Republic of Belarus was recognized in 2010 by the PEFC Council as
complying with the requirements of the РЕFС (Program for Endorsement of Forest Certification
schemes) – an international organization for recognition of national systems and forest
certification systems. Conformity certificates for forest administration and forest exploitation
systems, issued within the framework of the Forest certification system, have an international
status.
At carrying out of certification of the forest administration and forest exploitation systems,
quality conformance of forest administration, forest exploitation and forest recourses to the forest
legislation is verified, as well as to state standards of sustainable forest administration and forest
exploitation, to other TRLA, criteria and indicators regulating forest regeneration, conservation
and protection, wood procurement and of other resources to imposed requirements.
At carrying out of certification of forest products and wood derivatives on the grounds of
origin, its (their) origin from the forests, certified according to the requirements of the Forest
Certification System of the National system of confirmation of conformity of the Republic of
Belarus, is confirmed, as well as that during the process of its (their) production identification of
forest products and wood derivatives on grounds of origin is established.
Forest certification is carried out on a voluntary basis upon an initiative of legal bodies –
applicants by means of a contract conclusion between them, and the body for forest certification.
An applicant pays for all works of certification of the forest administration and forest
exploitation systems, forest products and wood derivatives on grounds of origin.
Planning and Surveying Republican Unitary Enterprise “Belgiproles” (accredited by
Gosstandart, certificate № BY/112 01.4.0.0001) is a body for forest certification. In case of
implementation of the sub-projects of Component 1 “Renewable wood biomass heating”
connected with construction/reconstruction of the wood biomass firing boiler house, two
compulsory requirements shall be fulfilled:
– woodchips or wood for woodchips production by communal district heating enterprises
shall be supplied only by certified forestry enterprises of the Republic of Belarus;
– there shall be confirmation of availability of sufficient amount of available materials
derived as a result of activity of existing forestry enterprises and that increase of demand for
them will not lead to changes in practice of forest management and forest exploitation (if
increase of the demand in connection with the sub-project implementation may lead to such
changes).
4.5 Thermal renovation of multi-apartment buildings in the Republic of Belarus
At present, the housing stock of the Republic of Belarus includes more than 1,5 mln. of
dwelling-houses with the total area of 256,4 mln. sq. m, including about 170 mln. sq. m (65%) –
in the multi-apartment buildings. Less than 6% of residential space is in state ownership, the
remaining 94% is private ownership of citizens and legal bodies.
Volumes of specific consumption of heat energy for heating and domestic hot water by
dwelling-houses and administrate buildings put into operation before 1994 (it is about 70% of
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the whole volume of the housing stock) make from 160 to 200 kW/h per sq. m per year, and for
specific houses – more than 250 kW/h per sq. m per year.
In the houses built from 1995 to 2009, average specific consumption of heat energy makes
up to 160 kW/h per sq. m per year. Starting from 2010, construction of so-called “energy
efficient houses” began in the country. At present, about 1,6 mln. sq. m of energy efficient
residential space with specific consumption of heat energy of less than 90 kW/h per sq. m per
year has been built in the country. According to the preliminary data, less than 9% of the
residential space, which is considered to be energy efficient, is exploited in the country. These
are new houses and residential buildings after modernization and overhaul.
One of the most accessible and efficient ways of energy economy existing in the housing
fund is reduction of heat losses due to enclosing structures of the buildings – thermal renovation.
Events for thermal renovation of facades of dwelling houses were excluded from the list of
works for overhaul in 2015, since that time facades weatherization at the cost of the budget was
carried out only in case of confirmed by an expert examination increased level of dampness in
the rooms, frost penetration to the apartments. At present, a draft decree about thermal renovation of the residential space has been
prepared, adoption of which is expected in the second half of 2018. It is supposed to create
conditions for an owner’s interest in increase of the level of comfort of his residential space. For
implementation of the mapped out program, it is planned to use innovation development funds of
the oblasts, funds of local budgets provided for overhaul and also credits of international
financial organizations.
Herewith, financing of thermal renovation of the residential space will be carried out not
only using budget funds, but also at the expense of the population as well. It is supposed to
establish remuneration of 20 % by the population and of 80 % by the budget.
According to a similar scheme, thermal renovation of 65 residential houses will be carried
out in the city of Minsk within the framework of the pilot project, which in addition to dwellers’
funds and the budget will include the credit of the European Bank of Reconstruction and
Development and proceeds from sale of residential space. The aim of this project is to show
efficiency of these events in order to disseminate experience throughout the republic. It total, it is
planned to carry out thermal renovation of 30 mln. sq. m of residential space in the Republic of
Belarus within 10 years.
It is also necessary to mention that from 2020 it is planned to build new houses in Belarus
with energy efficiency of not higher than 30-40 kW/h per sq. m per year, and broad-scale
thermal renovation of old houses, which was mentioned above, will allow to reach an energy
efficiency indicator in the housing stock of 90 kW/h per sq. m.
Considerable decrease of power consumption can be ensured at the cost of implementation
of a series of actions offered within the framework of Component 2 “Thermal renovation of
multi-apartment buildings” of the Sustainable Energy Scale-Up Project.
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5. Analysis of environmental and social impact of the potential types of sub-projects
The sub-projects implementation can have both positive and negative impact. The positive
impact will be mainly expressed in improvement of the social and economic sphere
(employment, growth in prosperity, improvement of living conditions, etc.), while negative ––
relates to a series of adverse impact on the quality of the environment and health of the
population in the areas of the sub-project implementation. In case of a negative impact, it is
necessary to develop a plan of actions on minimization of possible negative consequences or
their avoidance.
5.1 Analysis of environmental and social impact for potential types of sub-projects
under Component 1 “Renewable wood biomass heating”
The project will finance a series of sub-projects, which have not been determined at
present yet. Therefore, their environmental and social impact, and also development of activities
on mitigation will depend on scale, combination and distribution of such consequences, which
are difficult to determine until the sub-projects details and certain activity will be known.
Nevertheless, negative consequences for the environment from the sub-projects implementation
are not expected to be long-term and broad-scale. In general case, at implementation of the sub-
projects of Component 1 negative environmental and social impact can be possible only at two
stages: construction (reconstruction); and operation of biomass boilers and buildings and
constructions.
Construction (reconstruction)
The following negative impacts are possible at the construction (reconstruction) stage:
A. Atmospheric air pollution.
The main processes causing atmospheric air pollution will be the following:
– pollutant emissions during work of motors of automobile transport and construction
machinery;
– pollutant emissions during welding works execution;
– pollutant emissions during painting works execution;
– dust pollution during excavating;
– dust pollution at disassembly of concrete structures.
B. Surface and ground waters contamination.
The main processes causing Surface and subterranean waters contamination will be the
following:
– leakage of combustive and lubricating materials (CLM);
– incorrect burial of wastes, oil-products and chemical substances;
– incorrect organization of rainwater drainage;
– incorrect installation of composting toilets.
C. Topsoil damage.
The main processes causing topsoil damage will be the following:
– construction works performance (construction of pipeline trenches, facility deployment,
organizing access lanes for machinery, organizing places of storage of materials and waste);
– spillages of combustive and lubricating materials (CLM) during work and servicing of
automobile transport on site;
– waste water impact.
D. Removal or damage of plants, impact on biodiversity.
The main processes causing removal or damage of plants, and also impact on biodiversity
will be the following:
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– construction works performance (construction of pipeline trenches, facility deployment,
organizing access lanes for machinery, organizing places of storage of materials and waste).
E. Waste formation.
Construction waste and also life wastage of construction personnel are generated in the
course of construction and installation works execution.
F. Impact of physical factors (noise, vibration, etc.).
During work of construction machinery, machines and mechanisms, increase of acceptable
levels of noise and vibration is possible, as well as of other physical factors, which can cause
impact both on construction personnel, and on the population residing in the district of work
execution.
G. Health of construction personnel.
In the course of construction and installation work execution, there exists a risk of bodily
injury of construction personnel because of failure to fulfill the requirements of labor protection,
and safety measures.
H. Occurrence of emergency situations.
In the course of construction and installation work execution, there exists a risk of
occurrence of emergency situations because of failure to fulfill the requirements of labor
protection, and fire safety.
I. Violation of road traffic organization.
Negative interference in traffic may occur in the course of construction works or during
construction of a heat network, and also of driving of specialized construction machinery to
public roads.
J. Social impacts.
At the stage of construction (reconstruction), minimum negative social impacts on local
population are possible, such as:
– disturbance because of noise, vibration and other physical factors;
– traffic violation at the pipeline sections situated on the residential sections or around
them;
– temporary restriction or people’s access lock to houses, land parcels or another private or
public property;
– disturbance caused by contractors’ inappropriate behavior, aesthetic state of theoblast,
etc.
Implementation of the sub-projects under Component 1 does not assume social impact in
form of involuntary resettlement.
Operation of biomass boilers
The following negative impacts are possible at the stage of operation of buildings and
constructions:
A. Atmospheric air pollution.
The main processes causing atmospheric air pollution will be the following:
– pollutant emissions during wood biomass burning;
– pollutant emissions during work of motors of automobile transport, which supplies fuel,
carries out waste collection, transport of staff;
– pollutant (or wood dust) emissions during preparation of woodchips;
B. Surface and ground waters contamination.
The main processes causing Surface and subterranean waters contamination will be the
following:
– waste water formation in the course of manufacturing processes implementation and life-
sustaining activity of the operating personnel.
С. Removal or damage of plants, impact on biodiversity.
Removal or damage of plants and also uncontrolled overgrowth are possible in the course
of carrying out business activities.
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D. Waste formation.
Production waste and also life wastage of construction personnel will be generated in the
course of carrying out of business activity.
E. Impact of physical factors (noise, vibration, etc.).
During work of construction machinery, increase of acceptable levels of noise and
vibration is possible, as well as of other physical factors, which can cause impact both on
construction personnel, and on the population residing in the district of work execution.
F. Health of construction personnel.
In the course of carrying out of business activity, there exists a risk of bodily injury of
construction personnel because of failure to fulfill the requirements of labor protection, and
safety measures.
G. Occurrence of emergency situations.
In the course of carrying out of business activity, there exists a risk of occurrence of
emergency situations because of failure to fulfill the requirements of labor protection, and fire
safety.
5.2 Analysis of adverse environmental and social impact for potential types of sub-
projects under Component 2 “Thermal renovation of multi-apartment buildings (MABs)”
The project will finance a series of sub-projects, which have not been determined at
present yet. Therefore, their environmental and social impact, and also development of activities
on mitigation will depend on scale, combination and distribution of such consequences, which
are difficult to determine until the sub-projects details and certain activity will be known.
Nevertheless, negative consequences for the environment from the sub-projects implementation
are not expected to be long-term and broad-scale.
In general case, at implementation of the sub-projects of Component 2 negative
environmental and social impact can be mostly at the stage of execution of construction and
finishing work.
Construction and finishing work
A. Atmospheric air pollution.
The main processes causing atmospheric air pollution in the period of carrying out of
thermal renovation of multi-apartment buildings will be the following:
– pollutant emissions during work of motors of automobile transport, which supplies
construction materials, carries out waste collection, transport of staff;
– particulate emission (dusting) as a result of removal of old coverings, drilling of holes for
anchors;
– pollutant emissions during welding work execution (welding and gas cutting of metal
elements);
– pollutant emissions during execution of painting works inside and outside the building
(during cosmetic repairs);
– pollutant emissions during gas burning in the burners used for heating of surfaces at
building up of rolled materials, melting of asphalt mastics.
B. Surface and ground waters contamination.
The main processes causing Surface and subterranean waters contamination will be the
following:
– leakage of combustive and lubricating materials (CLM);
– incorrect burial of construction waste;
– incorrect installation of composting toilets.
C. Topsoil damage.
The main processes causing topsoil damage will be the following:
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– construction works performance (organizing access lanes for machinery, organizing
places of storage of materials and waste);
– spillages of combustive and lubricating materials (CLM) during work and servicing of
automobile transport on site;
– spillages of paints and lacquers during execution of painting works inside and outside of
the building (during cosmetic repairs);
– waste water impact.
D. Removal or damage of plants, impact on biodiversity.
The main processes causing removal or damage of plants, and also impact on biodiversity
will be the following:
– construction works performance (organizing access lanes for machinery, organizing
places of storage of materials and waste).
E. Waste formation.
Construction waste and also life wastage of construction personnel will be generated in the
course of carrying out of construction and installation works.
Also, fecal waste will be generated in case of installation of a composting toilet for the
period of thermal renovation of multi-apartment buildings (MABs)
F. Impact of physical factors (noise, vibration, etc.).
During work of construction machinery, machines and mechanisms, and also execution of
construction and finishing work, increase of acceptable levels of noise and vibration is possible,
as well as of other physical factors, which can cause impact both on construction personnel, and
on the population residing in the district of work execution.
G. Health of construction personnel.
In the course of carrying out of construction activity, there exists a risk of bodily injury of
employees because of failure to fulfill the requirements of labor protection, and safety measures.
H. Occurrence of emergency situations.
In the course of carrying out of business activity, there exists a risk of occurrence of
emergency situations because of failure to fulfill the requirements of labor protection, and fire
safety.
I. Violation of road traffic organization.
Negative interference in traffic may occur in the course of work of construction machinery
on the neighborhood roads, diverting of local traffic, and also driving of specialized construction
machinery to the public roads.
J. Social impacts.
At the stage of construction and installation work execution, minimum negative social
impacts on local population are possible, such as:
– disturbance because of noise, vibration and other physical factors;
– traffic violation on the neighborhood roads;
– temporary restriction or people’s access lock to houses, land parcels or another private or
public property, blocking of passages inside the buildings;
– disturbance caused by contractors’ inappropriate behavior, aesthetic state of the oblast,
exterior of buildings, etc.
According to the current legislation of the Republic of Belarus, thermal renovation of
multi-apartment buildings will be carried out without the procedure of temporary relocation.
All possible negative impacts on the environment and on public health during
implementation of the sub-projects and during further operation will be controlled by the
corresponding territorial bodies of the Ministry of Nature, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of
Labor and the Ministry of Social Protection, the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Along with
analysis of compliance by a legal body of the legislation in the sphere of environmental
protection and sanitary and epidemiological welfare, during monitoring it is provided for to
collect samples and to analyze the contents of polluting substances in the atmospheric air,
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surface and subterranean waters, soils, change of the levels of physical action (noise, vibration,
etc.).
It is established by the legislation that violation of regulatory legal acts in the sphere of
environmental protection, of ecological safety requirements, violation of the procedure for
implementing design solution of the planned business and another activity subject to the State
Ecological Expertise, arrangements for land use and requirements for its protection, damage of
soils, illegal destruction, elimination or damage of trees and bushes or another vegetation,
atmospheric air pollution, pollution or clogging of water, etc. entail imposition of a fine on guilty
persons at the rates provided for by the legislation.
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6. Rules and procedure of environmental and social screening and assessment
6.1 Procedures of environmental and social screening of the World Bank and the
European Investment Bank
According to Safeguard Policies OP/BP 4.01 Environmental Assessment, the World Bank
and the European Investment Bank classify the offered sub-projects as one of four the categories
according to the type, venue, “ecological perceptibility” and scopes, and also nature and the
amount of its potential impact on the environment: А, B, C and FI (ФП).
Category A. A sub-project is referred to this category, if it has a negative impact on the
environment, which will be significant, diversified or unprecedented. Such significant,
diversified or unprecedented impact may be characterized by direct emission of a large amount
of polluting substances, which can cause deterioration of quality and even degradation of water
resources, soils and atmospheric air; broad-scale physical disruption or dislocation of a site
and/or environment; cutting-down, use or transformation of a considerable part of forest areas
and other natural resources; significant (nonrandom) accumulation of hazardous substances;
people’s involuntary resettlement and also other significant social changes. Such impacts are
usually integrated, cover large territories and sectors and create specific precedents. An impact is
usually rendered as a result of implementation of the main project activities and covers the whole
territory or the whole sector.
Such impact can cover the territory, which is larger than sites or facilities, on which it is
expected to execute works. In the course of environmental assessment under the sub-project of
Category A, potential positive and negative impacts of the sub-project for the environment are
examined, they are compared with consequences of possible alternative variants (including the
situation of “refusal from the project implementation”), and also measures for prevention,
minimization, mitigation or compensation of a negative impact on the environment and its more
rational use are recommended.
The Borrower bears responsibility for preparation of a report under the sub-project of
Category A, usually in the form of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) (or
a corresponding comprehensive rational or branch environmental assessment).
The sub-projects of Category A will not be financed within the framework of the
Sustainable Energy Scale-Up Project.
Category B. A sub-project is referred to Category B if is potential negative impact on
people or environment-oriented regions, including wetlands, forests, grazing lands and other
native habitats, cause slighter damage than sub-projects of Category A. These consequences
depend on a certain sub-project area; presence of irreversible effects; and in most cases measures
of mitigation of a negative impact yield to development easier than under the sub-projects of
Category A. The scopes of the environmental assessment under the sub-projects of Category B
may vary in different sub-projects, however, they are smaller than under the sub-projects of
Category A.
In the course of the environmental assessment, similar to the sub-projects of Category A,
possible positive and negative environmental impacts of the sub-project are examined, and also
recommendations for prevention, minimization, mitigation or compensation of a negative impact
and more rational use of the environment are given. Conclusions and results of the
environmental assessment under the sub-projects of Category B are set forth in the design
documents.
Category C. A sub-project is referred to Category C, if possibility of its negative impact
on the environment is minimal or equal to zero. Apart from preliminary assessment (screening),
no further actions for environmental assessment for the sub-projects of Category C are required.
Category FI (ФП). A sub-project is referred to Category FI, if it presupposes investment
of the Bank’s funds through a financial intermediary in the sub-projects, which can have
negative environmental consequences. Financing of the sub-projects through financial
intermediaries in the Sustainable Energy Scale-Up Project is not planned.
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6.2 Procedures of environmental and social screening
Each sub-project financed within the framework of the Sustainable Energy Scale-Up
Project is subject to environmental screening and assessment. The aim of environmental
assessment is determination of the most vulnerable environmental media and of an expected
impact for each potential participating region or territory of project events, development of
measures aimed at mitigation (alleviation or recovery) of negative impact consequences.
Preparation of the Environmental and Social Management Framework was selected as an
instrument, which satisfies the requirements of the World Bank and the European Investment
Bank for environmental assessment at the moment, Within the framework of the Sustainable
Energy Scale-Up Project, a series of the sub-projects, the impact of which is difficult to
determine until details of the sub-projects and their certain activity will be known, is subject to
financing.
The Project Management Unit (the PMU, more details about the PMU are in p. 9.2) shall
assess each sub-project and carry out screening according to the requirements of the World Bank
in order to determine the category of each sub-project (В or С). If a result of screening the sub-
project falls under Category C, no further actions are required. If a sub-project is referred to
Category B, either development of the Environmental and Social Management Plan is required
(Category B high), or filling in of the Checklist for Impact Assessment (Category B low)
Taking into account offered activity within the framework of the sub-project and its
potential impact on the environment, the PMU will make a decision about the sub-project
category.
Criteria of environmental screening are listed in Annex 8, which shall help the PMU
specialists to determine to which category (В or С) each sub-project implemented within the
framework of the Project will be referred.
In case the PMU specialists encounter some difficulties in determination of the sub-project
category, they shall consult with the Environmental Specialist of the World Bank and the
European Investment Bank, who will help to identify this or that category.
Having performed preliminary analysis, the following can be assumed:
Since the base quantity of offered sub-projects of Component 1 “Renewable wood biomass
heating” is construction (reconstruction) of boiler houses and heating networks, they can be
referred to Category B, their negative impact on the environment is less than those of the sub-
projects of Category A and concerns the location area of a certain facility.
The sub-projects of Package of measures B and the “Plus” variant of Component 2
“Thermal renovation of Multi-Apartment Buildings” can also be referred to Category B.
Category B low will supposedly include the sub-projects of Package of measures B and of
the “Plus” variant of Component 2 “Thermal renovation of Multi-Apartment Buildings”, which
include integrated thermal renovation, namely:
– installation of individual heat substations (ITSs) in the buildings;
– installation of radiator thermostats in the apartments;
– replacement of all windows (in case they have not been replaced by the households
individually yet);
– replacement of entrance doors;
– measures for heat insulation of exterior walls, basements and roofs;
– interior finishing;
– cosmetic repair of buildings.
Filling in of the Checklist for Impact Assessment is required for such sub-projects (Annex
9).
Category B high will supposedly include the sub-projects of Component 1 “Renewable
wood biomass heating”, including not large-scale construction work, namely:
– transfer of inefficient gas boiler houses to wood chips;
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– installation of new peak boilers;
– modernization of district heating networks and creation of Individual heat substations
(IHS), systems for monitoring and control of performance parameters;
– development of local sites for preparation of wood fuel
– installation of boilers on the pellets in proximity to the buildings, etc.
The Environmental and Social Management Plan (the ESMP) is designed for the sub-
projects of Category B high (approximate structure is presented in Annex 10) and also the ESIA
section (if conducting of the ESIA is required according to the legislation of the Republic of
Belarus) with subsequent undergoing of the State Ecological Expertise. The list of facilities,
which require conducting of the ESIA according to the legislation of the Republic of Belarus, is
presented in Annex 5.
For the sub-projects of Category B financed by the World Bank and the European
Investment Bank, during carrying out of the environmental assessment the Borrower shall
exercise consultations with all interested parties in respect of possible environmental impact and
take into account their remarks and comments in future. The interested parties shall include the
population, which can be subject to a negative impact of the design activity, and also local and
non-governmental organization (NGOs). The Borrower shall initiate such consultations at the
early stage of the project activity. Consultations shall be organized minimum once. For more
effective consultations between the Borrower and the group of persons, who can be subject to the
project activities impact and also local NGOs, for the sub-projects of Category B, the Borrower
shall prepare all necessary materials in a timely manner and provide them to the interested
parties in in an intelligible and understandable form and language. Holding public consultations
in the Borrowing country for the sub-projects of Category B is a necessary condition.
Category C will supposedly include the sub-projects of Component 3 “Technical
assistance and implementation support” of Package of measures A of Component 2 “Thermal
renovation of multi-apartment buildings (MABs)”, which includes not large-scale construction
work, such as:
– installation of individual heat substationы (ITS) in the buildings;
– installation of radiator thermostats in the apartments;
– replacement of windows;
– replacement of entrance doors;
– interior finishing;
– cosmetic repair of buildings.
Apart from screening, no other measures, connected with environmental assessment, are
required for such sub-projects.
6.3 Preparing an Environmental and Social Management Plan
The Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) of the sub-project includes a set
of measures for mitigation and monitoring, and also of institutional measures, which shall be
taken in the period of the project execution for remediation of unfavorable environmental and
social consequences, their neutralizing or reduction to an acceptable level. The Plan also
presupposes actions necessary for implementation of these measures. Within the framework of
some sub-projects of Category B, the ESMP is one of the necessary components of reports on
the EA. With respect to many other projects of Category B, the environmental assessment result
may be limited only by drawing-up of the ESMP (if conducting of the ESIA is not required).
The ESMP is drawn up for specific sub-projects by efforts of the subproject beneficiaries
(or on his assignment – by the design organization) on the basis of this Framework Document
and, if available, of reports on the ESIA and/or EP (environment protection) sections of the
design documents.
The ESMP project is reviewed and accepted by the PMU.
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The ESMP project is subject to public consultations according to the legislation of the
Republic of Belarus and Safeguard Policies of the Bank and is published by the subproject
beneficiary on its website for access of all local interested parties. After public hearings and
approval (coordination) by the Bank, the ESMP is confirmed by the subproject beneficiary.
The ESMP is an integral part of the bidding documents and the contract with the
Contractor for execution of construction and installation works. In particular, the ESMP:
– determines and sums up all expected considerable unfavorable impacts on the
environment and the social sphere;
– describes with technical details all measures for mitigation, including type of impact, to
which a certain measure is referred, and conditions of its use (if possible – attaching drawings,
equipment description, operating methods and other technical documents);
– contains preliminary assessments of any potential impact of these measures on the
environment.
The ESMP also determines the aims of monitoring and specifies monitoring type, and also
establishes its correlation with the types of actions, assessment of which is given in the
environmental assessment report and measures for mitigation measures described in the ESMP.
In particular, the following is specified in the ESMP section on monitoring:
– specific description and technical details of measures for mitigation, including
parameters subject to measurements, monitoring methods, which shall be used, the place of
sample selection, measurement frequencies, sensibility limits (if necessary) and also
determination of threshold values indicating the necessity of adjustment;
– procedures of conducting monitoring and reporting with the aim of ensuring timely
detection of the conditions, which require application of specific measures for alleviation and
provision of information about the course and results of work on mitigation.
An approximate structure of the ESMP is provided in Annex 10.
6.4 Environmental and Social Management Plan Checklist
An alternative form of the ESMP in the form of the Checklist has been developed for the
sub-projects with a low risk level (Category B low) to ensure recoding and implementation of the
basic best practice measures and at the same time to create convenient to use document
corresponding to the World Bank and the European Investment Bank requirements.
The ESMP Checklist consists of three sections:
Part 1 is a descriptive part, which specifies characteristics of the sub-project in terms of
physical location in-situ, organizational conditions regulating legislative and regulatory
frameworks; description of the project is also given, which includes that its need in the program
of increasing technical and organizational capabilities is specified, and also description of the
public consultation process is given. This Part can be about two pages in volume, Annexes can
be used for more information, if necessary.
Part 2 sets forth results of assessment of possible environmental and social impacts within
the framework of the sub-project, herewith, assessments are given in simple form “yes” or “no”,
and then measures for mitigation are given for each separate work type. At present, this list
suggests examples of possible consequences. There is a possibility to extend the list of
problematic issue and/or impacts in the checklist.
Part 3 shall include the work control (monitoring) plan in the course of construction and
the project execution.
Part 2 and Part 3 of the Checklist will be included in the Bidding Documents for the
contractor.
At practical application of the Checklist, one shall fill in Part 1 of this document, where all
corresponding characteristics of the work area are enumerated and documented. Part 2 specifies
types of scheduled works, marks are ticked in the boxes, a filled in tabular form of the Checklist
is saved and annexed as an integral part to the contract for work execution and, by analogy with
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all other technical and commercial conditions of these works, is signed by contract parties. Part 3
of the Checklist, namely, the work monitoring plan, is designed for the job inspector, for proper
expertise of quality of safety conditions fulfillment by the contractor.
The ESMP Checklist is presented in the Annex 9.
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7. Guidelines for mitigation of environmental and social impacts
The guidelines for mitigation of environmental and social impacts, which shall be adhered
to in preparation of ESMPs for selected sub-projects include the following:
– project life cycles and specific measures within the framework of construction
(operating) activity;
– potential impact on the environment and the social sphere connected with offered
measures;
– offered mitigation measures based on the international best practice;
– offered events for supervisory action, monitoring and reporting preparation.
The guidelines are presented in the Annex 11.
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8. Technical assistance for environmental and social issues
In order to ensure successful implementation of the requirements of this Framework
Document, there exists a necessity in conducing of a number of training workshops and events
aimed at workforce capacity building of all parties involved in the Project implementation. The
PMU specialists shall undergo training in the following directions:
– purpose and basic l provisions of the Framework Document;
– analysis of the World Bank and the European Investment Bank requirements at
conducting of the environmental and social screening procedure;
– requirements of the Operational Policies of the World Bank and the European Investment
Bank;
– requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Belarus in the sphere of environmental
protection (EP).
Within the framework of implementation of the sub-projects of Component 2 “Thermal
renovation of Multi-Apartment Buildings”, it is necessary to prepare a training program for
capacity building of new created oblast Thermal modernization funds with regard to
environmental and social impact assessment for determining potential environmental and social
impacts of financed sub-projects and preparation of ESMPs.
Special attention should be given to the issues of energy audit and rate setting of the use of
fuel and energy resources (FER), and also energy saving and increase of efficiency of fuel and
energy resources use, issues of organization of industrial environmental control.
Representatives of created oblast Thermal modernization funds shall study the following
provisions:
– Concept of Energy Security of the Republic of Belarus approved by Resolution of the
Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus dated 23.12.2015 № 1084;
– State Program “Energy Saving” for 2016–2020 approved by Resolution of the Council of
Ministers of the Republic of Belarus dated 28.03.2016 № 248.
With formal adoption of a decree about thermal modernization of the residential space,
representatives of created oblast Thermal modernization funds shall study its basic provisions
with the aim of their effective implementation in practice.
Organizations carrying out training in these directions are the following:
– State Educational Institution “Republican Center of State Ecological Expertise and
Raising of Qualification of Executive Employees and Specialists” (departmental subordination –
the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus);
– the State Institute of professional development and personnel training at gas supply field
“GAS-INSTITUTE” (departmental subordination – the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of
Belarus);
– Educational Institution “State Training Center of Training, Further Training and
Development of Personnel “ZHILKOM” (departmental subordination – the Ministry of Housing
and Communal Services of the Republic of Belarus);
An important direction of training is visiting of other countries with the aim of studying
international experience of similar Projects implementation.
Training for contracting organizations, executing works for construction (reconstruction),
shall also be organized concerning execution of construction work according to the requirements
of the legislation of the Republic of Belarus in the sphere of environmental protection, labor
protection, and safety measures, sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population.
In addition to it, there shall be organized training for the employers’ representatives
concerning pursuit of activities for operation of buildings and constructions according to the
requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Belarus in the sphere of environmental
protection, labor protection and safety measures, sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the
population.
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The training program for the specialists engaged in the Project implementation, with
indication of the budget for its use, is presented in Annex 12.
Training programs will be coordinated by the PMU and by the World Bank/the European
Investment Bank in the course of the Project implementation.
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9. ESMF Institutional arrangements and EA capacity building
9.1 Parties involved in ESMF implementation
The Parties involved in execution of this Environmental and Social Management
Framework are the following:
– the Project Management Unit (the PMU);
– the Subproject beneficiaries;
– the State inspection bodies.
9.2 The Project Management Unit
The Project will be implemented by the Energy Efficiency Department of the State
Committee for Standardization of the Republic of Belarus. The Project Management Unit (the
PMU) will be created for the purpose of the Project implementation in RUE
“Belinvestenergosberezhenie”, which will be responsible for implementation of Component 1
and Component 3, and oblast Thermal modernization funds, which shall be created before
beginning of negotiations under the Project, will be responsible for Component 2. The PMU will
render assistance to final beneficiaries in implementation of the project activities.
The PMU will be responsible for:
– development of the ESMF;
– control over implementation of the main provisions of the ESMF and ESMP in practice
(including organization of on-site inspections);
– consulting of the project participants on the issues of the environmental protection and
the social sphere protection;
– general monitoring and control over implementation of the ESMF;
– work with employers and consulting of them on the issues of the ESMP preparation,
monitoring of their implementation, and also discussion with them of specific environmental
issues and problems, solution approaches;
– conducting thermovision inspections of multi-apartment buildings within the framework
of implementation of the sub-projects of Component 2 (before and after the sub-project
implementation).
The PMU will analyze contracts and applications for credit financing in order to identify
and to include necessary measures for mitigation of negative consequences on the environment
and the social sphere. The PMU shall periodically collect information about changes in the
project activities and their impact on the environment and control the situation at the sub-project
areas. The PMU will also conduct preliminary assessment of the sub-projects and determine the
sub-project category according to the requirements of the World Bank and the European
Investment Bank.
In case of failure to fulfill worked out measures for mitigation of negative consequences on
the environment during the sub-projects implementation, the PMU has the right to make a
decision concerning continuation of further financing of the project activities.
The PMU will monitor over implementation of the ESMP within the framework of the sub-
projects, including control and monitoring. Provisions of the ESMP shall be integrated in the
contracts for work execution for each sub-project, specifying the cost of environment protection
measures.
At the stage of the sub-project approval, the PMU shall make sure that the offered project
activities do not contravene the national legislation in the sphere of environmental protection and
the requirements of the local bodies of the Republic of Belarus. All corresponding materials and
copies of permissions shall be stored in the PMU in the separate folders for each sub-project and
be available for review by the representatives of the World Bank and the European Investment
Bank.
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The PMU is also imposed control over organization and conducting of public discussions
on the sub-projects, offered for inclusion to the project, and provision of access to the
information for the interested public according to the legislation.
The PMU will also engage an Environmental Specialist, whose responsibilities will include
consulting of design organizations, construction organizations-contractors, heads of the housing
and communal services organizations for the issues of compliance with the Bank policies and the
legislation of the Republic of Belarus in the sphere of environmental protection. The
Environmental Specialist will also perform analysis of the design documents for compliance
with the requirements of the ESMF with provision of a conclusion, monitoring of the ESMP
implementation, monitoring and evaluation of measures for prevention and mitigation of the
consequences included in the ESMP.
The Environmental Specialist will also be responsible for interaction with territorial bodies
of the Ministry of Nature, and also periodical visits of the sub-projects area with the aim of
collecting information about current compliance with the requirements of the ESMF and the
legislation of the Republic of Belarus.
Afterwards, the Environmental Specialist will also determine the necessity of providing
training for the employers with the aim of knowledge level increase and inclusion of
environmental protection and social issues.
9.3 Sub Project beneficiaries
Component 1. Renewable wood biomass heating
All district heating enterprises, offered for participation in the Project, are subordinate to
the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services and oblast or district (city) executive
committees.
These enterprises shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of the
legislation of the Republic of Belarus in the sphere of environmental protection and the
requirements determined in the ESMP. With this aim, the enterprises will determine (or in the
absence – will engage) the Environmental Specialist, whose responsibilities will include the
following:
– control over compliance with the requirements of the legislation of the Republic of
Belarus in the sphere of environmental protection and of the requirements determined in the
ESMP;
– maintaining the document register confirming exercise of consultations with all
interested parties and also results of state ecological expertise and other expert conclusions;
– monitoring that contractors execute all requirements of the ESMP;
–identifying of all environmental and social issues at the city and district level, which can
emerge in the course of the sub-projects implementation;
– interaction with territorial bodies of the Ministry of Health;
– control over compliance with the measures aimed at mitigation, assessment of their
efficiency;
– if necessary, consulting of the contractors on the issues of the ESMP implementation;
– interaction and information exchange with the PMU concerning execution of the ESMP.
Component 2. Thermal renovation of multi-apartment buildings (MABs)
The housing stock of the Republic of Belarus consists of the state and private houses:
The state housing stock includes the following:
– republican housing stock – a part of the housing stock, which is in republican ownership
(ownership of the Republic of Belarus);
– communal housing fund – a part of the housing stock, which is in communal ownership
(ownership of administrative-territorial units).
The state housing stock includes dwellings of the state housing stock, which are in
economic control or operating management of local executive and regulatory bodies, other state
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bodies, other state organizations, including residential accommodation of social use, corporate
housing, residential accommodation in the shared households, residential accommodation of the
special office housing stock, special residential accommodation, residential accommodation of
commercial use and other residential accommodation.
Private housing stock includes the following:
– citizens’ housing stock – a part of the housing stock, which is in citizens’ ownership;
– housing stock of organizations of non-state form of ownership – a part of the housing
stock, which is in ownership of organizations of the non-state form of ownership.
Oblast Thermal modernization funds will be responsible for implementation of Component
2, which shall be created before the beginning of negotiations under the project. Oblast Thermal
modernization funds will work in close cooperation with corresponding oblast and district
executive committees.
It is assumed that authorized persons for administration of common property will be
included in the Oblast Thermal modernization funds:
- in case of state property – local housing and communal services;
- in case of private property - condominium associations (CAs) or corporate owners of the
housing stock.
The Employers shall fulfill the provisions of this Framework Document.
Oblast Thermal modernization funds shall have a Safeguards Specialist, who is responsible
that activity for the project implementation corresponds to the requirements of the ESMF and the
legislation of the Republic of Belarus. Primary duties of the specialist are similar to the duties of
the Environmental specialist under Component 1. Additionally, the specialist will be responsible
for conducting subprojects environmental and social screening. The received information shall
be transferred directly from the Environmental Specialist to the PMU.
9.4 State inspection bodies
The main function of the State Inspection Bodies is the following:
– verification of compliance of the requirements of this Framework Document with the
requirements of the applicable legislation of the Republic of Belarus;
– control within their competence over compliance by all parties, participating in the Project
implementation, of the requirements of the current legislation of the Republic of Belarus.
Correct implementation by all parties, engaged in execution of the ESMF, of their
functions and obligations is a key condition of successful implementation of the Sustainable
Energy Scale-Up Project.
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10. Monitoring and reporting
Regular monitoring on the part of the PMU is compulsory for effective fulfillment of the
requirements of the ESMF and ESMPs and should cover all sub-projects financed under the
Project. The PMU will be responsible for general monitoring and assessment of the results of the
sub-projects implementation, and also for preparation of semi-annual and mid-term reports about
the progress of the Project implementation.
The PMU will semiannually receive from the enterprises, which carry out the sub-projects
implementation, a report according to the form “Indicators of Results Achievement” (Annex 13).
The Employers shall conduct monitoring according to the plan presented in the ESMP.
Monitoring provides for regular supervision over implementation of all physical activities
executed by the Contractors at the cost of the Project financing and tracking of the ESMP
execution. According to the monitoring results, the Employer shall develop a report in form
“Indicators of Results Achievement” and send it to the PMU. Also, copies of the supporting
documents shall be attached to the report.
Implemented and not implemented measures for impact reduction will be presented in
these reports; nature of corrective actions elaborated for problem solution will be explained;
complaints and penalties, received in the process of the sub-projects implementation, will be
described; held seminars and other events for workforce capacity building will be presented as
well. Based on received from the Employers data, the PMU prepares reports for the World
Bank/the European Investment Bank about the progress of the Project implementation.
Reports shall contain the “Analytical information” (Annex 13). The reports shall also be
supplemented with current photos, copies of supporting documents. All materials for monitoring
in situ will be stored in electronic or in hard copy in the PMU and will be provided to the World
Bank/the European Investment Bank upon the request of the latter.
In addition to it, it will be necessary for the PMU to publish an annual report about the
progress of the Framework Document performance on the Project web-site, and also to provide
the information on environmental and social impact in the course of the sub-projects
implementation to all interested parties.
Specialists of the PMU and of the World Bank/the European Investment Bank will conduct
periodical supervision missions with the aim of assessing compliance of the project activities
implementation with the requirements of the ESMF and ESMPs.
In addition to it, as a part of fulfillment of the monitoring requirements, the mechanism of
complaints consideration is determined in the PMU. Information about this procedure will be
posted on the PMU’s web-site and also on the Borrowers’ sites.
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11. Grievance Redress Mechanism
11.1 Complaint consideration procedure
Transparency and accountability are fundamental principles of the Project. The Grievance
Redress Mechanism (GRM) has been created for this purpose within the framework of the
Project. The aim of the GRM is to increase accountability to the Project beneficiaries and to
provide the ways for feedback with the interested parties of the Project on the issues concerning
events within the framework of the Project. Among other things, this mechanism allows to
identify and to solve the problems influencing the Project. Increasing transparency and
accountability, the GRM is aimed at reduction of the risk that the Project will involuntarily
inflict harm on citizens/beneficiaries and will serve as an important feedback mechanism for
improvement of the impact made by the Project.
This mechanism is aimed not only at receipt and registration of complaints, but also at the
complaints consideration process. In spite of the fact that feedback shall be considered at the
stage of the complaint submission, all complaints shall be registered in the general system
according to fundamental provisions of the GRM.
11.2 Ways of complaints submission
Within the framework of the Project, the following ways are identified, with the help of
which beneficiaries/persons covered by the Project can submit complaints concerning the events
financed by the Project:
– to special e-mail address: [email protected];
– to the project web-site: http://www.bies.by/;
– letters are sent to the following address: the Republic of Belarus, 220037, the City of
Minsk, 12 Dolgobrodskaya str., Bldg 2N, the PMU “Sustainable Energy Scale-Up Project”;
– by fax: +375 17 360 46 83;
– written complaints are provided to the PMU (by means of holding of a meeting).
Within the framework of the Project, the PMU shall ensure flexibility in use of available
ways by any persons, who wish to submit a written complaint. Complaints connected with current sub-projects, financed by means of provision of
currency resources of the World Bank and the European Investment Bank within the Sustainable
Energy Scale-Up Project, are admitted to consideration. All applications, including anonymous
ones, are subject to consideration.
When submitting a complaint, an applicant may also offer acceptable from his point of
view ways of problem solution.
The PMU accepts complaints connected with current sub-projects financed by means of
provision of currency resources of the World Bank and of the European Investment Bank within
the framework of the Sustainable Energy Scale-Up Project only during the validity period of the
investment contract.
11.3 Confidentiality and conflict of interest
Complaints may be submitted anonymously, and confidentiality shall be ensured in all
cases, including when personality of a person, who submits a complaint, is known. For this
reason, there have been created several ways of complaints submission in order to avoid conflicts
between the interested parties.
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11.4 Collection/receipt of complaints
A person, who accepts a complaint, shall fill in the Record of complaints/inquires (Annex
14) or provide a form to the applicant for self-filling in and shall immediately provide it to the
PMU. Then a complaint shall be immediately sent to the general registration system for sorting
and redirection to the corresponding department responsible for investigation and consideration
of complaints, or directly to the PMU, if application is connected with specific activity under the
Project. The Director of RUE “BELINVESTENERGOSBEREZHENIE” is responsible for
determination of a person, to whom a complaint shall be sent, whether a complaint requires
investigation (or not) and the response period.
At determination of a person, who will be an employee for investigation, the Director of
RUE “BELINVESTENERGOSBEREZHENIE” ensures absence of a conflict of interests, i.e. all
persons participating in the investigation process, shall have no material, personal or professional
interest in the results and no personal or professional connection with applicants or witnesses.
A person, who is responsible for managing the GRM reports, enters these data in the
Register of complaints.
Number and type of proposals and questions shall also be registered and reported in order
to analyze them for better cooperation with the Projects.
11.5 Investigation
According to Law of the Republic of Belarus dated July 18, 2011 N 300-3 (edition dated
July 15, 2015) “On applications from citizens and legal bodies” with further changes, complaints
are considered within 15 working days from the moment of a complaint receipt, and complaints,
which require additional investigation and examination of documents, are considered within one
month. A person, responsible for a complaint investigation, will collect the facts in order to get a
clear picture about the conditions connected with the complaint, Investigation/follow-up may
include the construction site visit, review of the documents and meeting with those, who can
solve the problem.
Investigated findings and an offered answer to an applicant will be submitted for
consideration to the Director of RUE “BELINVESTENERGOSBEREZHENIE”, who will make
a decision about the progress of work. After the decision has been made, and upon the
applicant’s application, an investigation specialist describes actions, which shall be taken in the
Record of complaints, and also detailed data about investigations and conclusions, and provides
an answer to the Director of RUE “BELINVESTENERGOSBEREZHENIE” for signing.
11.6 Answer to the Applicant
If the Applicant is known, information about offered measures is reported to him/her by
means of a letter, an e-mail, orally, upon receipt. An answer shall be based on investigation
records and, if necessary, contain references to the national legislation.
The deadline for the complaint investigation can be increased to 30 working days, and it is
necessary for the Applicant to report about this fact, in case:
– further consultations for provision of an answer to the complaint are necessary;
– the complaint is of a serious nature, and it is necessary to investigate additional materials
for an answer.
11.7 Publication
After the case has been solved, a complaint and measures taken for its resolution will be
published on the following web-site: http://www.bies.by/
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11.8 Transparency
Policy, procedures and regular updates of the GRM, and also submitted and resolved
complaints will be available on the Internet on the web-site http://www.bies.by/, and also (if
possible) on local/ministerial Internet platforms and other permanent stands. They will be
updated quarterly.
11.9 Periodic internal monitoring and reporting
The Project Coordinator will quarterly assess functioning of the GRM for:
– provision of quarterly summaries of the GRM findings, including any proposals and
questions to the PMU and the management;
– review of stages of complaint investigation for tracking of those, which have not been
resolved yet, and offering necessary measures for remedying of the situation.
During semi-annual general meetings, the PMU shall discuss and consider efficiency and
use of the GRM, and also collect proposals on how to improve this mechanism.
11.10 Reporting in quarterly and annual reports about the progress of activity
provided to the Bank
Quarterly and annual reports shall include the GRM section, which provides updated
information about the following:
– functioning of the GRM (procedures, staffing personnel, training, campaigns for raising
public awareness, budget process, etc.);
– quantitative data about the number of received complaints, including number of
complaints, which were really relevant to the Project, and about the number of complains, which
have been considered;
– qualitative data about complaints type and provided on them answers, problems, which
have remained unsettled;
– time necessary for complaints resolution;
– number of complaints resolved at the lowest level, number of complaints brought to
higher authorities;
– any specific questions related to procedures/staff schedule or use of the mechanism;
– factors, which may influence the use of the feedback system for the GRM/beneficiaries;
– corrective actions taken.
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12. ESMF disclosure and public consultation
12.1 General requirements for disclosure of the ESMF
For risk minimization, ensuring effective Project implementation, prevention or reduction
of potential negative impacts of the sub-projects on the environment and social sphere, and also
for enhancing benefits of the Project execution, it is necessary to ensure participation of the
interested parties in discussion of the offered Project.
Participation of the interested parties will be ensured by means of publication of this
Framework Document in electronic format on the web-site of RUE
“Belinvestenergosberezhenie” and on the web-sites of the World Bank and the European
Investment Bank before beginning of the project Appraisal. The Framework Document in
electronic form will be sent to oblast executive committees, the Ministry of Nature, the Ministry
of Labor and Social Protection, the Ministry of Health, public non-governmental organizations.
Public discussions of the Framework Document will be brought into line with the requirements
of the World Bank and the European Investment Bank, and the legislation of the Republic of
Belarus.
RUE “Belinvestenergosberezhenie” is responsible for disclosure of information and
organization of public discussions of this Framework Document for the Biomass District Heating
Project according to the provisions of the Bank Policy ВР17.50 “Procedure of Information
Disclosure”. In case of necessity, a meeting with the public will be held (in case of receipt of an
application about the necessity to hold this meeting).
The ESMP for certain sub-projects will be further developed by the employers on the
basis of this Framework Document, reports on the ESIA and/or sections on the EP of the design
documents (if available) and will be published on the web-sites of local executive committees
and corporate customers, in local mass media before the beginning of implementation of the
planned events. Public discussions of the ESMP will be organized by local executive committees
after preparation and disclosure of these plans on certain sub-projects. Minutes of public
discussions will be included as an annex in the ESMP and will be disclosed repeatedly.
Results of public discussions of the Framework Document will be recorded in the
Minutes with remarks and proposals of the interested parties. The Framework Document shall be
refined within 30 days taking into account comments and suggestions, and its final version shall
be posted on the web-sites of RUE “Belinvestenergosberezhenie”, the World Bank and the
European Investment Bank.
12.2 The results of ESMF disclosure and public consultation
The consultation meeting with the interested parties for discussion of the ESMF with
respect to the Sustainable Energy Scale-Up Project, developed according to the requirements of
the World Bank (WB) and the European Investment Bank (EIB), took place on October 5, 2018
from 11:00 till 12:00 at RUE “Belinvestenergosberezhenie” at the following address: 12
Dolgobrodskaya str., Bldg. 2N, Minsk. This document together with an announcement about
holding of the consultation meeting was posted on the websites of RUE
“Belinvestenergosberezhenie”; the Energy Efficiency Department of Gosstandart and Oblast
Executive Committees of Brest, Vitebsk, Gomel, Grodno, Minsk and Mogilev oblasts from
September 12 till September 15, 2018. All interested parties could send their comments and
suggestions to RUE “Belinvestenergosberezhenie”, the organization responsible for conducting
of public discussions, not later than October 1, 2018, by mail: 12 Dolgobrodskaya str., Bldg. 2N,
220037, Minsk, to e-mail: [email protected] or by phone 352-58-25. Possible comments and
suggestions of the interested parties with respect to the ESMF have not been received by RUE
“Belinvestenergosberezhenie” till the specified time.
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The PMU Employees of RUE “Belinvestenergosberezhenie” participated in the
consultation meeting, as well as developers of the ESMP, for whom presentation of the ESMF
was held. Representatives of the Oblast Executive Committees, non-governmental organizations
and other interested parties did not take part in the consultation meeting. The presentation
included overall overview of the document, description and explanation of national procedures
for the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment, including differences of national
procedures and Safeguard Policies of the World Bank and the European Investment Bank, and
also clarifications on drawing-up of the Environmental and Social Management Plans (ESMPs).
Comments and suggestions were not received in the course of the consultation meeting.
Minutes of public hearings are presented in Annex 15.
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Annex 1
The main Laws regulating questions of environmental protection, labor protection and
safety measures and also sanitary and epidemiologic well-being of population in the
Republic of Belarus
№ Laws and regulations
Environmental Protection
1 The Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 11.26.1992 № 1982-XII “On environmental
protection”
2 The Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 16.12.2008 № 2-З “On atmospheric air protection”
3 The Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 12.11.2001 № 56-З “On the protection of the ozone
layer”
4 The Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 14.06.2003 № 205-З (ed. 18.07.2016 № 402-З) “On
plant world”
5 The Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 20.10.1994 № 3335-XII “On specially protected
natural areas”
6 The Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 20.07.2007 № 271-З “On waste management”
7 The Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 10.07.2007 № 257-З “On wildlife”
8 The Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 18.07.2016 № 399-З “On state ecological expertise,
strategic environmental assessment and environmental impact assessment”
9 The Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 09.01.2006 № 93-З “On hydrometeorological
activities”
10 Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus dated 01.09.2010 № 450 “On licensing of
certain types of activities”
11 Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus dated 17.11.2011 № 528 “On integrated
environmental permits”
12 Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus dated 24.06.2008 № 348 “On the rates to
determine the amount of compensation for harm caused to the environment”
13 Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus dated 20.10.2005 № 487 “On ratification by
the Republic of Belarus of the Convention on environmental impact assessment in a cross-
border context”
14 Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus dated 29.10.2010 №1592
“On approval of the Regulations on the procedure of conducting public environmental expert
review”
15 Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus dated 28.04.2004 № 482
“On approval of the Regulations on the procedure for conducting monitoring of surface waters,
ground waters, atmospheric air and local environmental monitoring as part of the National
Environmental Monitoring System in the Republic of Belarus, and using their data”
16 Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus dated 19.01.2017 № 47
“About some measures for implementation of the Law of the Republic of Belarus from
18.07.2016 № 399-З “About the state ecological expertise, strategic environmental assessment
and environmental impact assessment”
17 Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus dated 14.06.2016 № 458
“On approval of the Regulations on the procedure public discussions on projects of
ecologically significant decisions, environmental impact assessment reports, registration of the
made ecologically significant decisions and introduction of amendments and additions to some
resolutions of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus”
18 Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus dated 17.07.2008 № 1042
“On approval of the procedure of calculating the amount of compensation for harm caused to
the environment and drafting an act to establish the fact of harm to the environment,
amendment and revocation of selected resolutions of the Council of Ministers of the Republic
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of Belarus”
19 Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus dated 21.05.2009 № 664
“On approval of the Regulations on the procedure for issuing permits for pollutant emissions
into the atmospheric air, amending and (or) supplementing, suspending, renewing, and
extending permits for pollutant emissions into the air, and their termination”
20 Resolution of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic
of Belarus dated 18.07.2017 №5-Т “On approval of the environmental standards and rules”
21 Resolution of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic
of Belarus dated 07.06.2013 № 25 “On approval of the Instruction on the procedure of
maintaining environmental passports of enterprises and revocation of selected resolutions of
the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus
dated 01.12.2008 № 107”
22 Resolution of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic
of Belarus dated 01.02.2007 № 9 “On approval of the Instruction on the procedure for
conducting local environmental monitoring by legal entities engaged in economic and other
activities which have a detrimental effect on the environment, including environmentally
hazardous activities”
23 Resolution of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic
of Belarus dated 04.05.2015 № 18 “On the requirements for designing water conservation
zones and coastal strips of water bodies”
24 Resolution of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic
of Belarus dated 04.05.2015 № 19 “On approval of the Instruction on establishment of basin
Councils”
25 Resolution of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic
of Belarus dated 04.05.2015 № 20 “On selected issues related to issuing special water use
permits”
26 Resolution of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic
of Belarus dated 04.05.2015 № 21 “On selected issues related to development technical
standards for water use”
27 Resolution of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic
of Belarus dated 08.12.2014 № 42 “On selected measures to implement Law of the Republic of
Belarus “On the protection of the ozone layer”
28 Resolution of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic
of Belarus dated 19.12.2008 № 122 “On approval of the Instruction on the management of
ozone-depleting substances”
29 Resolution of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic
of Belarus dated 20.12.2011 № 53 “On selected issues related to issuing integrated
environmental permits”
30 Resolution of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic
of Belarus dated 23.06.2009 № 42 “On approval of the Instruction on the procedure of
inventory of the emissions of pollutants into atmospheric air and revocation of Resolution of
the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus
dated 28.12.2006 №80 and paragraph 1, subparagraph 1.2 of Resolution of the Ministry of
Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus dated 30.11.2007
№ 97”
31 Resolution of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic
of Belarus dated 23.06.2009 № 43 “On approval of the Instruction on the procedure of setting
standards for allowable emissions of pollutants into atmospheric air and revocation of selected
resolutions of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic
of Belarus”
32 Resolution of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic
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of Belarus dated 26.05.2017 №16 “On selected issues related to standardizing of dumping of
chemical and other substances as a part of sewage”
33 Resolution of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic
of Belarus dated 29.05.2009 № 30 “On approval of the Instruction on classification of facilities
with an impact on atmospheric air”
34 Resolution of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic
of Belarus dated 29.05.2009 № 31 “On approving the list of pollutants, categories of targets of
atmospheric air impacts, for which allowable rates of emissions of pollutants into atmospheric
air are established, and the list of facilities with atmospheric air impacts and emission sources,
for which allowable rates of emissions of pollutants into atmospheric air are not established,
and revocation of Resolution of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Belarus dated 28.02.2005 №10”
35 Resolution of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic
of Belarus dated 30.03.2015 № 13 “On establishment of quality standards of water in surface
water objects”
36 Resolution of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic
of Belarus dated 22.10.2010 № 45 “On approval of the Instruction on the procedure for
drafting and approval of instructions for industrial waste management”
37 Resolution of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic
of Belarus dated 29.02.2008 №17 “On approval of the Instruction on the procedure of
production wastes inventory”
38 Resolution of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic
of Belarus dated 08.11.2007 № 85 “On approval of the Classifier of wastes generated in the
Republic of Belarus”
39 Resolution of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic
of Belarus dated 14.05.2007 №60 “On approval of service regulations of gas-purifying
equipment”
40 The Code of the Republic of Belarus dated 30.04.2014 № 149-З “Water Code of the Republic
of Belarus”
41 The Code of the Republic of Belarus dated 23.07.2008 № 425-З “Land Code of the Republic
of Belarus”
42 The Code of the Republic of Belarus dated 14.07.2008 № 406-3 “Code of the Republic of
Belarus on Subsoil Resources”
43 The Code of the Republic of Belarus dated 24.12.2015 № 332-З “Forest Code of the Republic
of Belarus”
Sanitary and epidemiologic well-being of population
1 The Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 17.06.1993 № 2435-XII “On health care”
2 The Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 07.01.2012 № 340-З “On the sanitary and
epidemiological well-being of the population”
3 Resolution of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus dated 11.10.2017 № 91 “On
approval of the sanitary standards and rules “Requirements to sanitary protection zones of the
organizations, constructions and other objects making impact on health of the person and the
environment”
4 Resolution of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus dated 30.12.2016 № 141 “On
approval of the sanitary standards and rules “Requirements to atmospheric air of settlements
and places of population rest”
5 Resolution of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus dated 08.11.2016 №113 “On
statement and enforcement of standards of threshold limit values of pollutants in atmospheric
air and approximately safe levels of pollutants influence in atmospheric air of settlements and
places of mass rest of the population and revocation of selected resolutions of the Ministry of
Health of the Republic of Belarus”
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6 Resolution of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus dated 21.12.2010 г. №174 “On
approval of danger classes of pollutants in atmospheric air, an order of reference of pollutants
to certain danger classes of pollutants and revocation of Resolution of the Ministry of Health of
the Republic of Belarus dated 30.06.2009 № 76”
Labor protection and safety measures
1 The Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 23.06.2008 № 356-З “On labor protection”
2 The Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 15.06.1993 № 2403-XII “On fire safety”
3 The Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 05.01.2016 № 354-З “On industrial safety”
4 The Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 06.06.2001 № 32-З “On the transport of dangerous
goods”
5 The Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 05.01.2008 № 313-З “On road traffic”
6 The Code of the Republic of Belarus dated 26.07.1999 № 296-З “Labor Code of the Republic
of Belarus”
7 The Code of the Republic of Belarus dated 07.12.1998 № 218-З “Civil Code of the Republic
of Belarus”
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World Bank and the European Investment Bank Safeguard Policies and their relevance to
the project
SAFEGUARDS POLICIES TRIGGERED RELEVANCE
Environmental Assessment (OP/BP
4.01)
This Policy aims to ensure that
projects proposed for Bank financing
are environmentally and socially
sound and sustainable; to inform
decision makers of the nature of
environmental and social risks; to
increase transparency and
participation of stakeholders in the
decision-making process.
Yes The types of activities to be implemented
will have either minor or no adverse
environmental impacts and provide
significant environmental benefits
(reductions in local pollution such as dust
and sulfur dioxide emissions and
reductions in emissions of greenhouse
gases such as carbon dioxide; improving
livelihoods by securing heat supply; etc.).
Negative environmental impacts are
primarily associated with civil works
(e.g. dust, noise, disposal of non-
hazardous wastes and/or older
equipment; degradation of vegetation,
traffic disruption (depending upon
specific location), worker safety (e.g.
welding operations) etc.) In most cases
these impacts will be minor, short-lived,
and primarily limited to the project sites
(except for movement of equipment and
materials to/from the construction sites),
and they can be addressed with good
engineering and construction practices as
well as by preparing and implementing
adequate mitigation measures and
applying best housekeeping practices. As
at this stage of the project development
the investments and their location are not
known, for addressing potential adverse
impacts, was prepared an ESMF which
specifies the rules and procedures for the
subprojects ESIA and ESMP, including
guidelines on conducting environmental
screening, identifying potential impacts,
mitigation and monitoring activities for
different types of potential sub-projects.
A special section of the ESMF provides
EA capacity building activities for the
new Regional Housing Funds to be
created. The document includes an
assessment of supply chain and include
estimates of wood supply in Belarus and
specifies requirements that biomass
sourcing is certified and provide
procedures for verification related to the
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biomass supply chain. Additionally, the
ESMF stipulates that no Category A
subprojects will be supported.
Natural Habitats (OP/BP 4.04)
This Policy aims to safeguard natural
habitats and their biodiversity; avoid
significant conversion or degradation
of critical natural habitats, and to
ensure sustainability of services and
products which natural habitats
provide to human society.
No There will be no sub-projects involving
conversion of areas, which are important
wildlife habitat and/or would have
impacts on them – such subprojects will
be excluded from the project financing
during environmental screening.
Forestry (OP/BP 4.36)
This Policy is to ensure that forests
are managed in a sustainable manner;
significant areas of forest are not
encroached upon; the rights of
communities to use their traditional
forest areas in a sustainable manner
are not compromised.
No There will be no sub-projects that would
have impacts on forests, - such
subprojects will be excluded from the
project financing during environmental
screening.
Pest Management (OP 4.09)
This policy is to ensure pest
management activities follow an
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
approach, to minimize environmental
and health hazards due to pesticide
use, and to contribute to developing
national capacity to implement IPM,
and to regulate and monitor the
distribution and use of pesticides.
No No pesticides will be purchased or used
for the proposed activities
Physical Cultural Resources
(OP/BP 4.11)
This policy is to ensure that: Physical
Cultural Resources (PCR) are
identified and protected in World
Bank financed projects; national
laws governing the protection of
physical cultural property are
complied with; PCR includes
archaeological and historical sites,
historic urban areas, sacred sites,
graveyards, burial sites, unique
natural values; implemented as an
element of the Environmental
Assessment
Yes The project will not finance any
subprojects that might have impacts on
such resources, - such subprojects will be
excluded from the project financing
during environmental screening. Standard
requirements regarding chance finds will
be included in contracts for earth works.
Indigenous Peoples (OP/BP 4.10)
IP – distinct, vulnerable, social and
cultural group attached to
geographically distinct
habitats or historical territories, with
No There are no IPs in the country.
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separate culture than the project area,
and usually different language. The
Policy aims to foster full respect for
human rights, economies, and
cultures of IP, and to avoid adverse
effects on IP during the project
development.
Involuntary Resettlement
(OP/BP4.12)
This policy aims to minimize
displacement;
treat resettlement as a development
program; provide affected people
with opportunities for participation;
assist displaced persons in their
efforts to improve their incomes and
standards of living, or at least to
restore them; assist displaced people
regardless of legality of tenure; pay
compensation for affected assets at
replacement cost; the OP. Annexes
include descriptions of Resettlement
Plans and Resettlement Policy
Frameworks
Yes No Project activities will require or cause
physical or economic displacement. The
selection process for building renovation
as it relates to homeowners will need to
ensure that it does not involve temporary
or permanent relocation of
homeowners/tenants. The ESMF will
have a checklist to monitor this. Under
Component 2, in cases where thermal
renovation activities might lead to minor
temporary impacts on small retail
businesses located on the first floor of the
buildings, site-specific ESMPs (which
will be included into construction
contracts) will require appropriate
mitigation measures such as providing
street signs or other measures for
clientele to easily access during
construction. Robust Grievance Redress
Mechanism (GRM), as required under
OP 4.01, with active outreach campaign
will be supported by the Project and will
ensure active participation of project
beneficiaries/affected people.
Safety of Dams(OP/BP4.37)
This Policy is to ensure due
consideration is given to the safety of
dams in projects involving
construction of new dams, or that
may be affected by the safety or
performance of an existing dam or
dams under construction; important
considerations are dam height &
reservoir capacity
No The project activities will be
implemented inside the urban areas and
will not be dependent on the functionality
of dams.
Projects on International
Waterways (OP/BP7.50)
The Policy aims to ensure that
projects will neither affect the
efficient utilization and protection of
international waterways, nor
Yes The project will not finance any activities
which may have impacts on
transboundary rivers.
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adversely affect relations between
the Bank and its Borrowers and
between riparian states
Disputed Areas(OP/BP7.60)
The Bank may support a project in a
disputed area if governments
concerned agree that, pending the
settlement of the dispute, the project
proposed for one country should go
forward without prejudice to the
claims of the other country
No No disputed areas are involved
Disclosure Policy (BP17.50)
supports decision making by the
borrower and Bank by allowing the
public access to information on
environmental and social aspects of
projects and has specific
requirements for disclosure
Yes The draft ESMF was disclosed on
09/12/2018 and consulted in the country
before project appraisal on 10/05/2018
and will be also disclosed on the WB
website.
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Objects of State Ecological Expertise
(According to Art.5 of the Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 18.07.2016 № 399-З
“On state ecological expertise, strategic environmental assessment and environmental
impact assessment”)
1. Objects of state ecological expertise are:
1.1. town-planning projects, projects of building and also change and (or) additions made
to it;
1.2. pre-project (pre-investment) documentation on construction and reconstruction of the
objects specified in article 7 of the present Law and also objects which placement is provided in
borders of the natural territories which are subject to special protection;
1.3. architectural and at single-stage design construction projects on construction and
reconstruction of the objects specified in article 7 of the present Law and also objects which
placement is provided in borders of the natural territories which are subject to special protection
in case according to acts development of pre-project (pre-investment) documentation isn't
required or in the conclusion of the state environmental assessment according to pre-project (pre-
investment) documentation and (or) architectural projects special conditions of implementation
of design decisions have provided submission of the project documentation on the following
design stages on the state ecological expertise;
1.4. architectural and at single-stage design construction projects on construction and
reconstruction of the objects specified in article 7 of the present Law and also objects which
placement is provided in borders of the natural territories which are subject to special protection
in case design decisions in them don't provide standards of admissible impact on the
environment and the volumes of use of natural resources specified in the conclusions of the state
ecological expertise according to pre-project (pre-investment) documentation;
1.5. the project documentation on use of natural resources and also changes and (or)
additions made to it except for the project documentation on geological exploration of a subsoil;
1.6. documentation on mobile equipment on use and (or) neutralization of waste and (or)
preparation of waste for use and also on mobile equipment for production;
1.7. projects of the water protection zones and coastal strips and also changes and (or)
additions made to it;
1.8. projects of maintaining hunting farms, fish-breeding and biological justifications,
biological justifications of stocking of fishing grounds, biological justifications on preparation
and (or) purchase of the wild animals which aren't belonging to subjects to hunting and fishery,
biological justifications of installation of wild animals in grounds and also the changes and (or)
additions made to it;
1.9. forest management projects and also the changes and (or) additions made to it;
1.10. schemes of land management of areas, projects of intraeconomic land management
and also change and (or) the additions made to it;
1.11. projects of specifications and also changes and (or) additions made to it.
2. The projects providing modification and (or) additions in documentation specified in
paragraph 1 of the present article are objects of the state ecological expertise in case these
changes and (or) additions are connected with increase in impact on the environment and (or)
uses of natural resources, except for the cases provided by acts in the field of environmental
protection and rational use of natural resources.
3. Other documentation provided by acts and international treaties of the Republic of
Belarus can be the object of the state ecological expertise.
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Objects of Strategic Environmental Assessment
(According to Art.6 of the Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 18.07.2016 № 399-З
“On state ecological expertise, strategic environmental assessment and environmental
impact assessment”)
1. Objects of strategic environmental assessment are:
1.1. projects of program containing the provisions governing the relations in the field of
environmental protection and rational use of natural resources (including the field of waste
management, of subsurface use), agriculture, industry, transport, power, tourism and also the
projects providing modification and (or) additions to it;
1.2. town-planning projects, except for general plans of urban-type settlements and rural
settlements and also the projects providing modification and (or) additions to it.
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Objects of Environmental Impact Assessment
(According to Art.7 of the Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 18.07.2016 № 399-З
“On state ecological expertise, strategic environmental assessment and environmental
impact assessment”)
1. Objects of environmental impact assessment are:
1.1. objects with coordinating dimension sanitary protection zone is 300 meters and more;
1.2. objects of industry (construction objects on which implementation of economic
activity in the sphere of production of goods connected with production of instruments of labor is
planned (both for other branches of the national economy, and for the industry), materials, fuel,
energy, by further processing of the products received in the industry or made in agriculture and
also with production of goods, the equipment, cars, mechanisms, mining), for which
coordinating dimension sanitary protection zone is not established;
1.3. nuclear power stations and other nuclear equipment (except facilities and complexes
with experimental and research nuclear reactors and critical and subcritical nuclear testing units
(assemblies) whose maximum power does not exceed 1 kilowatt continuous thermal load);
1.4. equipment for the production or enrichment of nuclear materials or the reprocessing of
spent nuclear materials;
1.5. stationary equipment and (or) facilities for the storage of nuclear materials, spent
nuclear materials and (or) operational radioactive waste;
1.6. objects for neutralization, processing, storage and (or) burial of radioactive waste;
1.7. objects for storage, use, neutralization and waste disposal;
1.8. radio and television transmission equipment using ultra high frequency broadcasting
antennae (with radiation of 10-1 - 10-2 meters or 3 х 109 - 3 х 1010 Hertz);
1.9. thermal power stations and other combustion equipment with an equivalent (thermal
and electric) power of 100 megawatts or more;
1.10. national highways, railways, aerodromes and airports with a basic runway length of
1500 meters or more;
1.11. oil and gas pipelines with a diameter of 500 millimeters or more;
1.12. artificial reservoirs with surface area more than 50 hectares;
1.13. construction objects connected with change and (or) flattening of the bed of the river,
a stream and (or) the conclusion of the section of the river, a stream in the collector and also with
deepening of a bottom;
1.14. objects of economic and other activity planned to construction in borders of
superficial water objects except for objects of transport, engineering and (or) military
infrastructure;
1.15. dams 2 meters high and more, channels, except for the carrying-out channels of the
second and the subsequent orders of meliorative systems;
1.16. groundwater extraction facilities with a daily output of 5 000 cubic meters or more;
1.17. opencast mining objects (except for peat) where the surface of the site exploited is 20
hectares or more;
1.18. underground mining objects where the total annual volume of extracted product is
250 000 cubic meters or more;
1.19. objects for peat extraction;
1.20. oil extraction objects with an annual volume of 5 000 tonnes or more from one well;
1.21. natural gas extraction objects with an annual volume of 2 000 000 cubic meters or
more;
1.22 equipment for the gasification and liquefaction of coal or bituminous shale with a
daily production capacity of 500 tons or more;
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1.23. oil, petrochemical or chemical storage facilities with a capacity of 50 000 cubic
meters or more, and also chemical products with a capacity of 1 ton or more;
1.24. underground gas reservoirs;
1.25. equipment for the production of cellulose and (or) wood pulp with an annual
production capacity of 100 000 tons or more, of paper and (or) cardboard with a daily production
capacity of 20 tons or more;
1.26. equipment for the manufacture of glass;
1.27. equipment for the production of pig-iron or steel (primary or secondary fusion),
including continuous casting, with an hourly production capacity of 2,5 tons or more;
1.28. equipment for the hot rolling of ferrous metals with an hourly production capacity of
20 tonnes or more of crude steel;
1.29. equipment for the casting of ferrous metals with a daily production capacity of 20
tonnes or more;
1.30. equipment for the smelting, including the alloying, of nonferrous metals, including
recovered product (including refinery, foundry casting etc.), with a daily melting capacity of 4
tons or more for lead and cadmium or 20 tons or more for all other metals;
1.31. equipment for production of wood chipboards, fiber boards with use synthetic pitches
as a binding;
1.32. objects of economic and other activity (except for houses, public buildings and
constructions, the systems of engineering infrastructure and improvement of territories in the
settlements located in borders of reserves, national parks, wildlife areas) planned to construction:
in the territories defined within the Convention on the wetlands having the international
value mainly as habitats of waterfowl, Ramsare signed in on February 2, 1971 and within 2
kilometers from their borders;
in borders of especially protected natural territories, their guard zones, territories reserved
for the announcement by especially protected natural territories;
in borders of habitats of wild animals and places of growth of the wild-growing plants
relating to the types included in the Red List of the Republic of Belarus;
in borders of the typical and rare natural landscapes and biotopes under protection to users
of the land plots and water objects;
1.33. objects of economic or other activities, construction of which is planned in the
conservation zones of immovable tangible objects of historical and cultural significance;
1.34. objects of economic or other activities construction of which is planned in the
marshes along the state border of the Republic of Belarus or in areas from where an impact may
be caused on these marshes;
1.35. land improvement schemes with a surface area of 10 square kilometers or more;
1.36. overhead electrical power lines with a voltage of 220 kV or more and a length of 15
km or more;
1.37. objects of economic or other activities, construction of which is planned within the
boundaries holiday resorts, if these do not comply with the functional designation of these sites.
2. Environmental impact assessment is carried out also for other objects specified by the
legislative acts and international agreements of the Republic of Belarus.
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Contents of the “Environmental protection” section of the project documents
(as per EN-02 to CSS 1.03.02-96)
The section “Environmental protection” (“EP”) of the project documentation includes
subsections in which impacts on all components of the environment – air, water, a soil cover, a
plant and animal life are analyzed. Effect of physical factors and risks of influence on health of the
population is surely considered in the analysis. On the basis of the analysis actions for ensuring
sanitary and hygienic wellbeing of the population and the favorable habitat are developed.
As per EN-02 to CSS 1.03.02-96 the section “Environmental protection” includes the
following main subsections:
– Protection of atmospheric air from pollution;
– Protection of surface and subterranean water from pollution and exhaustion;
– Protection and rational use of land resources;
– Protection of plant world;
– Protection of wildlife;
– Environmental protection from pollution by industrial wastes and municipal solid waste.
The subsection “Protection of atmospheric air” is developed on the basis of the Law of the
Republic of Belarus dated 16.12.2008 № 2-З “On atmospheric air protection”. Important part in
this section is occupied by calculations of emissions of pollutants in atmospheric air. A number of
TKP is developed for determination of lot of emissions of pollutants in atmospheric air.
After carrying out calculation of emissions of pollutants in atmospheric air from a designed
project, in the section “EP” calculation of dispersion of pollutants in a ground layer of the
atmosphere which defines extent of chemical environmental pollution after putting into operation
of a designed project and, respectively, influence on health of the population is carried out. If
calculating dispersion excesses of standards of maximum-permissible concentration of pollutants
are found, project decisions provide the special nature protection measures (installation of the gas-
purifying equipment (cyclones, filters), increase in heights of waste-gas chimney, etc.) allowing to
reduce concentration of pollutants in a ground layer of the atmosphere.
If the project has provided installation at the enterprise of the rustling equipment which
influence on health of the population of the placement area, in the section “EP” noise calculation
is carried out.
Calculation of noise effect from a designed project is carried out according to ТКP 45-2.04-
154-2009 (02250) “Noise protection. Construction norms of design”. The received levels of noise
effect compare to standards of quality. If calculation of noise has shown excesses of standards of
noise limits, noise-protective measures have to be provided in the project documentation.
The subsection “Protection of surface and subterranean water from pollution and
exhaustion” is carried out taking into account requirements of “Water Code of the Republic of
Belarus”. This subsection reflects all main data on the organization of water supply and water
disposal in the enterprise and also existence of treatment facilities.
The subsection “Protection and rational use of land resources” is carried out taking into
account requirements of “Land Code of the Republic of Belarus”. This section reflects information
on volume of the removed fertile soil and also ways of use it (for example, gardening of a
designed project and (or) gardening of nearby territories).
The subsection “Protection of plant world” is carried out taking into account requirements of
the Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 14.06.2003 № 205-З (ed. 18.07.2016 № 402-З) “On
plant world”. If the project has provided removal or change of objects of plant world (trees,
bushes, lawns) within the settlement, it is necessary to provide compensation landings according
to the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus dated 25.10.2011 № 1426
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“About some questions of plant world objects management” in edition of the Resolution dated
14.06.2016 № 458.
The subsection “Protection of wildlife” is carried out taking into account requirements of the
Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 10.07.2007 № 257-З “On wildlife”. This subsection is
developed only in case of causing damage to wildlife at implementation of project decisions.
The subsection “Environmental protection from pollution by industrial wastes and municipal
solid waste” is carried out taking into account requirements of the Law of the Republic of Belarus
dated 20.07.2007 № 271-З “On waste management”. This subsection contains information about
the construction waste (which produced by construction works), about industrial wastes (which
produced after commissioning of a designed project).
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Dynamics of forest fund indicators of the Republic of Belarus
Name of an indicator Measuring
unit
Indicator as of
1994 year 2001 year 2010 year 2018 year
1 2 3 4 5 6
1. Total area of lands of
forest fund
thousand
hectares 8676,1 9247,5 9416,6 9582,0
1.1. Forest lands
thousand
hectares 7775,9 8275,7 8598,2 8724,1
% 89,6 89,4 91,3 91,0
1.2. The lands covered with
the forest – all
thousand
hectares 7371,7 7850,6 8002,4 8260,9
% 85 85,0 85,0 86,2
ripe and overripe
thousand
hectares 350,1 623 804,4 1215,4
% 4,7 7,9 10,1 14,7
2. Woodiness % 35,5 37,8 38,5 39,8
3. The general stock of
plantings – all
millions cub.
meter 1093,2 1339,9 1566,1 1796,0
4. General average change
of a stock
millions cub.
meter 24,9 28,2 30,2 32,7
5. Average stock of
plantings
cub.
meter/hectare 148 171 196 217
5.1. Ripe and overripe cub.
meter/hectare 213 220 244 267
6. Average age years 44 48 52 56
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Environmental and social screening criteria
№ Activities for implementation of the project Proposed
subproject
category
Proposed instrument
of environmental and
social impact
assessment
1 2 3 4
1 Component 1. Renewable wood biomass heating:
– conversion of inefficient gas-fired boilers to
wood-chip-firing boilers
В high Development of
ESMP, development
of ESIA if necessary
– installation of new peak boilers В high Development of
ESMP, development
of ESIA if necessary
– modernization of heat network В high Development of
ESMP, development
of ESIA if necessary
– installation of individual heat substations and
operational monitoring and control systems
В high Development of
ESMP, development
of ESIA if necessary
– development of local sites for wood fuel
preparation
В high Development of
ESMP, development
of ESIA if necessary
– distribution heating using wood pellet-fired
boilers close to the buildings in locations where
decentralized biomass heating option is more
economical than simple fuel switching of the
existing gas-fired district heating systems
В high Development of
ESMP, development
of ESIA if necessary
2 Component 2. Thermal renovation of multi-apartment buildings (MABs) Package of
measures A (limited thermal renovations):
– installation of individual heat substation in
buildings
С No further actions are
required
– installation of thermostatic radiator valves in
apartments
С No further actions are
required
– upgrading of entrance doors and staircase
windows
С No further actions are
required
– internal finishing works С No further actions are
required
– cosmetic repair of buildings С No further actions are
required
3 Component 2. Thermal renovation of multi-apartment buildings (MABs) Package of
measures B (comprehensive thermal renovations):
– installation of individual heat substation in
buildings
В low Filling ESMP
Checklist
– installation of thermostatic radiator valves in
apartments
C No further EA
activities
– upgrading of all windows and exterior doors C No any further EA
activities
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1 2 3 4
– thermal insulation of exterior walls, basement
and roof
В low Filling ESMP
Checklist
– internal finishing works C No Any further EA
activities
– cosmetic repair of buildings В low Filling ESMP
Checklist
4 Component 2. Thermal renovation of multi-apartment buildings (MABs) The “Plus” option
(included for both packages for buildings where homeowners collectively favor heat cost
allocation at apartment level by using heat cost allocators):
– installation of individual heat substation in
buildings
В low Filling ESMP
Checklist
– installation of thermostatic radiator valves in
apartments
C No any further EA
activities
– upgrading of all windows and exterior doors C No any further EA
activities
– thermal insulation of exterior walls, basement
and roof
В low Filling ESMP
Checklist
– internal finishing works C No any further EA
activities
– cosmetic repair of buildings В low Filling ESMP
Checklist
5 Component 3. Technical assistance and
implementation support
С No further actions are
required
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ESMP Checklist
PART 1: INSTITUTIONAL & ADMINISTRATIVE
Country
Project title
Scope of project
and activity
Institutional
arrangements
(Name and
contacts)
WB/EIB
(Project Team
Leader)
Project
Management
Local Counterpart and/or
Recipient
Implementation
arrangements
(Name and
contacts)
Safeguard
Supervision
Local Counterpart
Supervision
Local
Inspectorate
Supervision
Contactor
SITE DESCRIPTION
Name of site
Describe site
location
Attachement 1: Site Map [ ]Y
[ ] N
Who owns the
land?
Geographic
description
LEGISLATION
Identify national
& local
legislation &
permits that
apply to project
activity
PUBLIC CONSULTATION
Identify
when/where the
public
consultation
process took
place
INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY BUILDING
Will there be any
capacity
building?
[ ] N or [ ]Y if Yes, Attachment 2 includes the capacity building
program
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Will the site
activity
include/involve
any of the
following?
Activity/Issue Status Triggered Actions
1. Roads or building rehabilitation [ ] Yes [ ] No If “Yes”, see Section A
below
2. New construction of small structures or infrastructure [ ] Yes [ ] No If “Yes”, see Section A
below
3. Impacts on surface drainage system [ ] Yes [ ] No If “Yes”, see Section B
below
4. Historic building(s) and districts [ ] Yes [ ] No If “Yes”, see Section C
below
5. Acquisition of land1 [ ] Yes [ ] No If “Yes”, see Section D
below
6. Hazardous or toxic materials2 [ ] Yes [ ] No If “Yes”, see Section E
below
7. Impacts on forests and/or protected areas [ ] Yes [ ] No If “Yes”, see Section F
below
8. Risk of unexploded ordinance (UXO) [ ] Yes [ ] No If “Yes”, see Section G
below
9. Traffic and Pedestrian Safety [ ] Yes [ ] No If “Yes”, see Section H
below
1 Land acquisitions includes displacement of people, change of livelihood encroachment on private property this is to land that is purchased/transferred and affects people who are
living and/or squatters and/or operate a business (kiosks) on land that is being acquired. 2 Toxic/hazardous material includes but is not limited to asbestos, toxic paints, noxious solvents, removal of lead paint, etc.
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PART 2: MITIGATION MEASURES
ACTIVITY PARAMETER MITIGATION MEASURES CHECKLIST
0. General
Conditions
Notification and
Worker Safety
(a) The local construction and environment inspectorates and communities have been notified of upcoming
activities.
(b) The public has been notified of the works through appropriate notification in the media and/or at publicly
accessible sites (including the site of the works).
(c) All legally required permits have been acquired for construction and/or rehabilitation.
(d) The Contractor formally agrees that all work will be carried out in a safe and disciplined manner designed
to minimize impacts on neighbouring residents and environment.
(e) Workers’ PPE will comply with international good practice (always hardhats, as needed masks and safety
glasses, harnesses and safety boots).
(f) Appropriate signposting of the sites will inform workers of key rules and regulations to follow.
A. General
Rehabilitation
and/or
Construction
Activities
Air Quality (a) During interior demolition use debris-chutes above the first floor
(b) Demolition debris, excavated soil and aggregates shall be kept in controlled area and sprayed with water
mist to reduce debris dust.
(c) During pneumatic drilling or breaking of pavement and foundations dust shall be suppressed by ongoing
water spraying and/or installing dust screen enclosures at site.
(d) The surrounding environment (sidewalks, roads) shall be kept free of soil and debris to minimize dust.
(e) There will be no open burning of construction/waste material at the site.
(f) All machinery will comply with Belarus emission regulations, shall well maintain and service and there
will be no excessive idling of construction vehicles at sites.
Noise (a) Construction noise will be limited to restricted times agreed to in the permit.
(b) During operations the engine covers of generators, air compressors and other powered mechanical
equipment shall be closed, and equipment placed as far away from residential areas as possible.
Water Quality (a) The site will establish appropriate erosion and sediment control measures such as e.g. hay bales and/or silt
fences to prevent sediment from moving off site and causing excessive turbidity in canalization and nearby
streams and rivers.
Waste
management
(a) Waste collection and disposal pathways and sites will be identified for all major waste types expected from
excavation, demolition and construction activities.
(b) Mineral construction and demolition wastes will be separated from general refuse, organic, liquid and
chemical wastes by on-site sorting and stored in appropriate containers.
(c) Construction waste will be collected and disposed properly by licensed collectors.
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(d) The records of waste disposal will be maintained as proof for proper management as designed.
(e) Whenever feasible Contractor will reuse and recycle appropriate and viable materials (except when
containing asbestos).
B. Local
wastewater
treatment
system
Water Quality (a) The approach to handling sanitary wastes and wastewater from building sites (installation or reconstruction)
must be approved by the local authorities.
(b) Before being discharged into receiving waters, effluents from individual wastewater systems must be
treated in order to meet the minimal quality criteria set out by national guidelines on effluent quality and
wastewater treatment. (c) Monitoring of new wastewater systems (before/after) will be carried out.
C. Historic
building(s)
Cultural Heritage (a) If construction works take place close to a designated historic structure, or are located in a designated
historic district, notification shall be made and approvals/permits be obtained from local authorities and all
construction activities planned and carried out in line with local and national legislation.
(b) It shall be ensured that provisions are put in place so that artefacts or other possible “chance finds”
encountered in excavation or construction are noted and registered, responsible officials contacted, and
works activities delayed or modified to account for such finds.
D. Acquisition
of land
Land Acquisition
Plan/Framework
(a) If expropriation of land was not expected but is required, or if loss of access to income of legal or illegal
users of land was not expected but may occur, that the Bank’s Task Team Leader shall be immediately
consulted.
(b) The approved Land Acquisition Plan/Framework (if required by the project) will be implemented.
E. Toxic
materials
Asbestos
management
(a) If asbestos is located on the project site, it shall be marked clearly as hazardous material.
(b) When possible the asbestos will be appropriately contained and sealed to minimize exposure.
(c) The asbestos prior to removal (if removal is necessary) will be treated with a wetting agent to minimize
asbestos dust.
(d) Asbestos will be handled and disposed by skilled & experienced professionals.
(e) If asbestos material is be stored temporarily, the wastes should be securely enclosed inside closed
containments and marked appropriately. Security measures will be taken against unauthorized removal
from the site.
(f) The removed asbestos will not be reused.
Toxic/hazardous
waste
(a) Temporarily storage on site of all hazardous or toxic substances will be in safe containers labelled with
details of composition, properties and handling information.
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management (b) The containers of hazardous substances shall be placed in a leak-proof container to prevent spillage.
(c) The wastes shall be transported by specially licensed carriers and disposed in a licensed facility.
(d) Paints with toxic ingredients or solvents or lead-based paints will not be used.
F. Affected
forests,
wetlands and/or
protected areas
Ecosystem
protection
(a) All recognized natural habitats, wetlands and protected areas in the immediate vicinity of the activity will
not be damaged or exploited, all staff will be strictly prohibited from hunting, foraging, logging or other
damaging activities.
(b) A survey and an inventory shall be made of large trees in the vicinity of the construction activity, large
trees shall be marked and cordoned off with fencing, their root system protected, and any damage to the
trees avoided.
(c) Adjacent wetlands and streams shall be protected from construction site run-off with appropriate erosion
and sediment control feature to include by not limited to hay bales and silt fences.
(d) There will be no unlicensed borrow pits, quarries or waste dumps in adjacent areas, especially not in
protected areas.
G. Risk of
unexploded
ordinance
(UXO)
Hazard to human
health and safety
(a) (a) Before start of any excavation works the Contractor will verify that the construction area has been checked
and cleared regarding UXO by the appropriate authorities.
H. Traffic and
pedestrian
safety
Direct or indirect
hazards to public
traffic and
pedestrians by
construction
activities
(a) In compliance with national regulations the Contractor will insure that the construction site is properly
secured and construction related traffic regulated. This includes but is not limited to:
▪ Signposting, warning signs, barriers and traffic diversions: site will be clearly visible and the public
warned of all potential hazards.
▪ Traffic management system and staff training, especially for site access and near-site heavy traffic.
Provision of safe passages and crossings for pedestrians where construction traffic interferes.
▪ Adjustment of working hours to local traffic patterns, e.g. avoiding major transport activities during
rush hours or times of livestock movement.
▪ If required, active traffic management by trained and visible staff at the site for safe passage for the
public.
▪ Ensuring safe and continuous access to all adjacent office facilities, shops and residences during
construction.
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PART 3: MONITORING PLAN
Stage Monitoring object
(What parameter
will be
monitored?)
Where to monitor
(Place of
monitoring for
each selected
parameter)
How to monitor
(How will the
measurements be
performed?)
When to monitor
(How
frequently/constantly?)
Cost of monitoring
(Costs associated with
monitoring, if not
included in the project
budget)
Who shall
monitor
(Parties
responsible for
monitoring each
parameter)
Design stage
Construction
stage
Operation
stage
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Structure of Environmental and Social Management Plan
Title page
It contains the title of the Subproject, the name of the developer organization, date and the
place of development
Contents
It contains numbers and titles of all sections and subsections with the indication of page
numbers
1. Subproject prerequisites
The section contains the general information on the Project within the Subproject will be
realized. It is necessary to specify to what component of the Project the Subproject belongs.
2. Brief Subproject description
The section contains the brief description of the Subproject with representation of the key
technical and economic indicators.
Alternative options of placement and realization are described.
Need of realization of this Subproject variant is proved.
3. Legislative and institutional base
3.1 National legislative base
The description of the main laws regulating questions of environmental protection, labor
protection and safety measures and also sanitary and epidemiologic well-being of population in
the Republic of Belarus which requirements have to be considered during realization of the
Subproject is provided in the section.
3.2 Institutional base
The list of the government authorities and organizations providing control of execution of
requirements of environmental protection, labor protection and safety measures and also sanitary
and epidemiologic well-being of population in the Republic of Belarus in frames of realization of
the Subproject is provided in the section.
Information can be provided in a form:
The Government authority or organization Corresponding functions
1 2
3.3 The World Bank and the European Investment Bank Safeguard Policies
The World Bank and the European Investment Bank Safeguard Policies are provided in the
section and the conclusion about their applicability to the Subproject is drawn.
4. Advanced environmental assessment (screening)
The section contains results of advanced environmental assessment (screening) according
to chapter 6.2 of the Environmental and Social Management Framework.
The conclusion about need of development of ESMP is drawn.
Also, the conclusion about need of development of Environmental and Social Impact
Assessment (ESIA) according to the current legislation of the Republic of Belarus is drawn.
5. The description of basic geographical and social-economic conditions
In the section the description of geographical and social economic conditions of the
Subproject realization area is provided. The existing problems of the region have to be presented.
5.1 The existing geographical conditions
The section has to contain the description of the existing geographical conditions of the
region.
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5.2 The existing social-economic conditions
The section has to contain the description of the existing social-economic conditions of the
region.
5.3 The analysis of forest fund condition
The section has to contain information on development dynamics of forest fund in the
region, information on existence of the certified forestry enterprises in the region. It is necessary
to carry out the comparative analysis of need for wood biomass for the Subproject realization
and ensuring with wood biomass in the region. It is necessary to confirm ensuring with wood
biomass in the region with references of the certified forestry enterprises of the region.
6. Environmental and social impact assessment
6.1 Positive environmental and social impact
The description of estimated positive impacts of the Subproject on the environment and the
social sphere is provided in the section.
In case of positive impacts, it is recommended to carry out the comparative analysis in
numerical expression.
Information can be provided in the following form:
№ The component which
is subject to positive
impact
Situation before
realization of the
Subproject
Situation after
realization of the
Subproject
Efficiency
1 2 3 4 5
1 Pollutant emission 10 tones per year 8 tones per year Reduction for 20%
2 Number of workers 2 4 Increase twice
! Data are presented in the Table as an example.
6.2 Negative environmental and social impact
The description of estimated positive impacts of the Subproject on the environment and the
social sphere is provided in the section at two stages:
– construction (reconstruction);
– operation of buildings and constructions.
The description has to be submitted on each of the components presented in chapter 5.1 of
the Environmental and Social Management Framework.
Construction (reconstruction)
The components:
– A. Atmospheric air pollution;
– B. Pollution of surface and subterranean water;
– C. Damage of topsoil;
– D. Elimination or damage of plants, effect on biodiversity;
– E. Waste formation;
– F. Effect of physical factors (noise, vibration, etc.);
– G. Health of construction personnel;
– H. Occurrence of emergency situations;
– I. Violation of road traffic organization;
– J. Social impacts.
Operation of buildings and constructions
The components:
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– A. Atmospheric air pollution;
– B. Pollution of surface and subterranean water;
– C. Elimination or damage of plants, effect on biodiversity;
– D. Waste formation;
– E. Effect of physical factors (noise, vibration, etc.);
– F. Health of construction personnel;
– G. Occurrence of emergency situations.
If the negative impact on any component is absent, then it is specified, for example:
Influence on a Component A isn't supposed.
7. Measures on mitigation of environmental and social impacts
The section contains the description of organizational measures which will be done before
construction works to inform about alleged activity:
– notice of local executive committees;
– notice of local supervisory authorities (territorial authorities of the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environmental Protection, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Labor and Social
Protection, Ministry of Emergency Situations, etc.).
Also, the section contains the description of concrete measures on mitigation of
environment and social impact on each component presented in chapter 6.2 of the Environmental
and Social Management Framework at two stages:
– construction (reconstruction);
– operation of buildings and constructions.
8. The environmental and social management plan
The section contains the developed Plan of measures on environmental and social
protection.
The Plan is considered the obligatory document which needs to be carried out during
implementation of the project. The Plan consists of a package of measures on influence
mitigation, monitoring and institutional responsibility which will be undertaken during
realization and operation for elimination of negative environmental and social impacts, their
compensation, or decrease to acceptable level.
The recommended form of Plan of measures on environmental and social protection:
Component
*
Negative
impact
Measures on
influence
mitigation
Mitigation
indicator
Costs of
measures on
mitigation
Person
responsible
for measures
on mitigation
1 2 3 4 5 6
Construction (reconstruction)
Operation of buildings and constructions
* Each of components is specified serially (as per section 6.2).
When developing the Plan of measures on environmental and social protection it is
necessary to be guided by Methodical instructions on mitigation of environmental and social
impacts (The annex 11 to the Environmental and Social Management Framework).
Plan of measures on environmental and social protection can be presented as the annex to
the ESMP.
9. Monitoring of implementation of the Plan of measures on environmental and social
protection
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The section contains information on carrying out monitoring of implementation of the Plan
of measures on environmental and social protection. The recommended form of monitoring plan:
Compo
nent
What
parameter
of
component
will be
monitored
Place of
monitoring
for each
selected
parameter
The way of
monitoring
Terms and
frequency of
monitoring
Monitoring
purpose
Person
responsible
for
monitoring
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Construction (reconstruction)
Operation of buildings and constructions
How will the measurements be performed;
How frequently/constantly;
Column 1. Each of components of influence (as per section 6.2) is specified serially.
Column 2. Each of influence component parameters is specified serially.
Column 3. The place where monitoring will be carried out is specified (or remotely).
Column 4. The way of monitoring is specified: visual survey, observation, interviewing, periodic
checks, instrumental control, analysis of documentation, etc.
Column 5. It is specified terms or periods of monitoring implementation its frequency is
specified.
Column 6. The purpose for which achievement monitoring is carried out is defined.
Column 7. Persons or organizations which are responsible for monitoring are specified.
Monitoring plan can be presented as the annex to the ESMP.
10. Public consultations and coordination
The section contains information:
– where and when ESMP has been published (websites of housing public utilities and
PMU, other media);
– where and when consultations with interested parties of the project have been held;
– where and when public hearings have been carried out.
Protocols of discussions and public hearings have to be issued as the annex to the ESMP.
Annexes.
Annex 1. Allowing documentation
In case of reconstruction of the operating object it is necessary to attach copies of all existing
allowing documents of environmental protection and also technical documentation (in the
presence of such documents):
– Permission to emissions of pollutants in atmospheric air;
– Act of inventory of emissions of pollutants, Draft of standards of admissible emissions;
– Permission to production waste disposal;
– Permission to special water use;
– Plan of implementation of production environmental control;
– Results of control gas-purifying installations efficiency of work;
– Project of the sanitary protection zone (SPZ);
– The sanitary and hygienic conclusion on the project of the SPZ;
– results of certification of jobs;
– results of analytical control (monitoring);
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– The certificate of values of background concentration of pollutants in the atmospheric air and
meteorological characteristics and coefficients defining conditions of dispersion of pollutants in
atmospheric air around an arrangement of the enterprise.
Annex 2. Ecological certificates, certificates of conformity on the purchased goods, services:
– ecological certificate of conformity to the STB ISO 14001 standard;
– certificates of forestry enterprises regarding compliance to requirements of PEFC;
– other certificates of suppliers and contractors.
Annex 3. The references of local forestry enterprises confirming presence of sufficient volume
of the available materials which are formed as a result of activity of the existing forestry
enterprises
Annex 4. Situational plan of Subproject realization area
Annex 5. Plan of measures on environmental and social protection
Annex 6. Monitoring plan
Annex 7. Protocols of discussions and public hearings.
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Annex 11
Guidelines on mitigation of environmental and social impacts
Stages of the
project and
concrete actions
within
construction /
operating
activities
Potential environmental and social
impact
Proposed measures on mitigation Offered actions for implementation
of supervision, monitoring and
preparation of the reporting
1 2 3 4
Component 1 “Renewable wood biomass heating”
Construction
(reconstruction)
А. Pollution of atmospheric air To apply measures for reduction of dust content by
regular water dispersion when carrying out excavator
works and dismantling building
Visual survey, if necessary –
instrumental control of dust
concentration in atmospheric air
To cover truck bodywork with awnings while
transportation of raising dust freights
Observation
To establish the ban on use at construction of the
materials and substances emitting cancerogenic and
toxic substances in the atmosphere
Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
To minimize operating time of motor transport engines
idling
Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
To organize passing of control by all vehicles
concerning CO emissions and smoke
Analysis of confirming
documentation
To establish the ban on combustion of solid municipal
and construction waste
Visual survey, analysis of
confirming documentation
To carry out painting, welding and other works
according to production schedules
Observation
Paints or solvents with toxic ingredients or paints on the Analysis of confirming
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basis of lead shouldn't be used documentation
Contractors have to use the latest equipment and energy
efficient technologies
Analysis of confirming
documentation
B. Pollution of surface and
subterranean water
To establish the ban on unregulated selection of
subterranean waters or uncontrollable dumping of
industrial waters, cement mortars or any other polluted
waters into the soil or a nearby surface water
Analysis of confirming
documentation, if necessary –
instrumental control of water
quality
On site the systems of the sewerage have to be arranged
and be taken measures for prevention of pollution,
blocking or other negative impact which construction
works can render on natural streams, the rivers, ponds
and lakes
Visual survey, if necessary –
instrumental control of water
quality
To provide measures for prevention of spill of fuels and
oils and other toxic or dangerous substances
Visual survey, analysis of
confirming documentation
To establish the ban on a wash of machines and
mechanisms on the building site
Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
С. Damage of topsoil To establish the ban on fuelling of the construction
equipment on the building site
Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
To carry out small repair of the construction equipment,
replacement of oils and technological liquids only at car
repair shops
Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
The machine equipment and mechanisms have to be
checked regularly regarding possible leak of fuel
Visual survey, analysis of
confirming documentation
The fulfilled fuels and oils have to be collected and
temporarily placed on storage in the individual
containers located in the safe place until are sent for
final utilization and neutralization
Visual survey
Portable toilets have to be set up and contain in good
repair
Visual survey
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Before construction works it is necessary to make
removal of the fertile layer of soil
Visual survey, analysis of
confirming documentation
After construction to carry out recultivation by crops of
a lawn
Visual survey, analysis of
confirming documentation
D. Elimination or damage of
plants, effect on biodiversity
To organize construction works without removal and
damage of plant world objects (whenever possible)
Observation
To establish the ban on journey and the parking of
transport out of the roads and platforms allocated for
this purpose
Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
It is necessary to organize compensation landings if
there were removals of plant world objects
Analysis of confirming
documentation
To protect plant world objects which have remained on
building site with wooden protections
Visual survey
E. Waste formation At the building site the system of separate collecting
waste has to be organized
Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
To collect and store waste of different types in the
containers intended for it
Visual survey
Containers for collecting waste are marked with the
indication of a class of danger and a type of the
collected waste
Visual survey
To collect hazardous waste in a liquid and pastelike
phase in the special capacities providing tightness and
anticorrosive stability and established in the specially
allotted place
Visual survey
The construction organization has to get Permission to
waste disposal
Analysis of confirming
documentation
The waste which is formed as a result of construction
activity has to be taken out to the dump or processed by
the licensed companies
Analysis of confirming
documentation
To observe that the placed waste wasn't in places of Visual survey
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possible flooding
If asbestos is located on the project site, it shall be
marked clearly as hazardous material
Visual survey
When possible the asbestos will be appropriately
contained and sealed to minimize exposure
Visual survey
In case of need works with asbestos materials, workers
have to wear goggles, masks and gloves
Observation
The asbestos prior to removal (if removal is necessary)
will be treated with a wetting agent to minimize
asbestos dust.
Observation
Asbestos will be handled and disposed by skilled and
experienced professionals
Analysis of confirming
documentation
If asbestos material is be stored temporarily, the wastes
should be securely enclosed inside closed containments
and marked appropriately
Visual survey
The removed asbestos will not be reused Analysis of confirming
documentation
The waste containing asbestos has to be transported
according to the legislation of the Republic of Belarus
on transportation of hazardous waste
Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
F. Effect of physical factors (noise,
vibration, etc.)
To organize work from 7:00 till 23:00 on weekdays Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
To minimize operating time of the rustling equipment
idling
Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
To use the modern equipment and mechanisms with the
low level of noise and vibration
Visual survey,
if necessary – instrumental control
of noise levels, vibration levels
Motor casings of generators, air compressors and other
similar equipment have to be covered, the equipment
has to be on the maximum distance from the housing
Visual survey,
if necessary – instrumental control
of noise levels, vibration levels
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All workers have to be provided with individual
protection equipment
Observation, interviewing, analysis
of confirming documentation
To provide installation of protective noise screens (if
necessary)
Visual survey
To limit traffic speed at building site Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
G. Health of construction
personnel
All works have to be carried out with observance of
measures on construction safety and rules of carrying
out construction works for reduction of health and
environment impact
Periodic inspections, observation,
interviewing, analysis of
confirming documentation
Training in safety measures for all workers before
works
Interviewing, analysis of
confirming documentation
All workers have to be provided with individual
protection equipment. Individual protection equipment
has to conform to requirements of the international
standards (construction helmets, as required respirators
and goggles, safety mechanisms and special footwear
are always used)
Observation, interviewing, analysis
of confirming documentation
The corresponding bulletin boards on a building site
have to inform workers on key rules and requirements
which need to be observed
Visual survey, interviewing
Implementation of rules and security guidelines,
including use of individual protection equipment, has to
be encouraged and controlled on a regular basis
Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
H. Occurrence of emergency
situations
All works have to be performed according to
requirements of labor protection and safety measures
Periodic inspections, observation,
analysis of confirming
documentation
The personnel have to be trained in actions in case of
emergency situations
Interviewing, analysis of
confirming documentation
I. Violation of road traffic The warning signs for the population and public Visual survey
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organization
transport about all potentially dangerous works have to
be established
The control system of the movement and training of
personnel, especially for ensuring access to an object
and nearby heavy traffic has to be organized. Safe
passes and transitions for pedestrians in places of the
movement of the construction equipment have to be
organized
Visual survey, analysis of
confirming documentation
Correction of operating time depending on the local
movement has to be carried out, for example, to avoid
active traffic by rush hour
Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
Traffic control on an object for safe transition of people
has to be organized if necessary
Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
Safe and continuous access for the population to all
nearby offices, objects of trade and houses during
construction works has to be provided
Visual survey
J. Social impacts To develop and introduce the mechanism of
consideration of addresses for receiving responses and
complaints at the local level
Interviewing, analysis of
confirming documentation
To carry out among construction personnel explanatory
work about need of correct behavior with locals
Interviewing, analysis of
confirming documentation
To place the stand with the general information on the
realized subproject. It is obligatory to specify terms of
implementation of the subproject
Visual survey
To place plates with apologies for temporary
inconveniences in case of violation of an esthetic look,
restriction or blocking of passes
Interviewing, visual survey
Operation of
buildings and
constructions
А. Pollution of atmospheric air To carry out inventory of sources of emissions using
instrumental control of pollutants concentration. To get
permission to emissions in territorial authorities of the
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental
Analysis of confirming
documentation, periodic
inspections by territorial authorities
of the Ministry of Natural
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93
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Protection of the Republic of Belarus Resources and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of
Belarus
To develop passports of gas-purifying equipment
(GPE). To check gas-purifying equipment efficiency of
work at least once a year
Analysis of confirming
documentation, periodic
inspections by territorial authorities
of the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of
Belarus
To carry out local monitoring of pollutants emission
according to requirements of Environmental standards
and rules (EnvS&R 17.01.06-001-2017)
Analysis of confirming
documentation, periodic
inspections by territorial authorities
of the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of
Belarus
To carry out monitoring of atmospheric air quality on
sanitary protection zone border and also in the next
housing
Analysis of confirming
documentation, periodic
inspections by territorial authorities
of the Ministry of Health of the
Republic of Belarus
Development of actions for achievement of admissible
levels in case of excesses of maximum-permissible
concentration of pollutants is necessary
Analysis of confirming
documentation, periodic
inspections by territorial authorities
of the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of
Belarus
To carry out the activity rendering impact on
atmospheric air according to requirements of the
Analysis of confirming
documentation, periodic
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environment protection legislation inspections by territorial authorities
of the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of
Belarus
B. Pollution of surface and
subterranean water
To develop standards of water consumption and water
disposal. To get permission to water use and water
disposal if necessary
Analysis of confirming
documentation, periodic
inspections by territorial authorities
of the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of
Belarus
To carry out the activity rendering impact on water use
according to requirements of the environment protection
legislation
Analysis of confirming
documentation, periodic
inspections by territorial authorities
of the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of
Belarus
С. Elimination or damage of
plants, effect on biodiversity
To carry out inventory of plant world objects Analysis of confirming
documentation
Not to allow unauthorized removal of plant world
objects
Visual survey
To mow a lawn, to cut trees and bushes Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
To carry out the activity rendering impact on plant
world objects and biodiversity according to
requirements of the environment protection legislation
Analysis of confirming
documentation, periodic
inspections by territorial authorities
of the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of
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95
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Belarus
D. Waste formation To carry out inventory of wastes Analysis of confirming
documentation
To develop the instruction on waste management Analysis of confirming
documentation
To get permission to waste disposal Analysis of confirming
documentation, periodic
inspections by territorial authorities
of the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of
Belarus
To carry out the activity on waste management
according to requirements of the environment protection
legislation
Analysis of confirming
documentation, periodic
inspections by territorial authorities
of the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of
Belarus
E. Effect of physical factors (noise,
vibration, etc.)
To develop the local monitoring program.
To carry out instrumental control of physical factors
(noise, vibration, etc.) on sanitary protection zone
border and also in the next housing
Analysis of confirming
documentation, periodic
inspections by territorial authorities
of the Ministry of Health of the
Republic of Belarus
Development of actions for achievement of admissible
levels in case of excesses of maximum-permissible
levels of physical factors is necessary
Analysis of confirming
documentation, periodic
inspections by territorial authorities
of the Ministry of Health of the
Republic of Belarus
F. Health of construction
personnel
To develop the instruction on labor protection Analysis of confirming
documentation, periodic
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96
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inspections by territorial authorities
of the Ministry of Labor and Social
Protection
To carry out certification of jobs for chemical and
physical factors
Analysis of confirming
documentation, periodic
inspections by territorial authorities
of the Ministry of Health of the
Republic of Belarus
To carry out the activity with observance of rules of
labor protection and safety measures
Analysis of confirming
documentation, periodic
inspections by territorial authorities
of the Ministry of Labor and Social
Protection
G. Occurrence of emergency
situations
To carry out the activity with observance of rules of
labor protection and safety measures
Analysis of confirming
documentation, periodic
inspections by territorial authorities
of the Ministry of Emergency
Situations
Component 2 “Thermal renovation of multi-apartment buildings (MABs)”
Construction and
finishing works
А. Pollution of atmospheric air To apply measures for reduction of dust content by
regular water dispersion when carrying out excavator
works and dismantling building
Visual survey, if necessary –
instrumental control of dust
concentration in atmospheric air
During interior demolition use debris-chutes above the
first floor
Observation
To cover truck bodywork with awnings while
transportation of raising dust freights
Observation
To establish the ban on use at construction of the
materials and substances emitting cancerogenic and
toxic substances in the atmosphere
Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
To minimize operating time of motor transport engines
idling
Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
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97
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To organize passing of control by all vehicles
concerning CO emissions and smoke
Analysis of confirming
documentation
To establish the ban on combustion of solid municipal
and construction waste
Visual survey, analysis of
confirming documentation
To carry out painting, welding and other works
according to production schedules
Observation
Paints or solvents with toxic ingredients or paints on the
basis of lead shouldn't be used
Analysis of confirming
documentation
Contractors have to use the latest equipment and energy
efficient technologies
Analysis of confirming
documentation
B. Pollution of surface and
subterranean water
To establish the ban on unregulated selection of
subterranean waters or uncontrollable dumping of
industrial waters, cement mortars or any other polluted
waters into the soil or a nearby surface water
Analysis of confirming
documentation, if necessary –
instrumental control of water
quality
On site the systems of the sewerage have to be arranged
and be taken measures for prevention of pollution,
blocking or other negative impact which construction
works can render on natural streams, the rivers, ponds
and lakes
Visual survey, if necessary –
instrumental control of water
quality
To provide measures for prevention of spill of fuels and
oils and other toxic or dangerous substances
Visual survey, analysis of
confirming documentation
To establish the ban on a wash of machines and
mechanisms on the building site
Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
С. Damage of topsoil To establish the ban on fuelling of the construction
equipment on the building site
Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
To carry out small repair of the construction equipment,
replacement of oils and technological liquids only at car
repair shops
Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
The machine equipment and mechanisms have to be
checked regularly regarding possible leak of fuel
Visual survey, analysis of
confirming documentation
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The fulfilled fuels and oils have to be collected and
temporarily placed on storage in the individual
containers located in the safe place until are sent for
final utilization and neutralization
Visual survey
Portable toilets have to be set up and contain in good
repair
Visual survey
D. Elimination or damage of
plants, effect on biodiversity
To organize construction works without removal and
damage of plant world objects (whenever possible)
Observation
To establish the ban on journey and the parking of
transport out of the roads and platforms allocated for
this purpose
Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
It is necessary to organize compensation landings if
there were removals of plant world objects
Analysis of confirming
documentation
To protect plant world objects which have remained on
building site with wooden protections
Visual survey
E. Waste formation At the building site the system of separate collecting
waste has to be organized
Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
To collect and store waste of different types in the
containers intended for it
Visual survey
Containers for collecting waste are marked with the
indication of a class of danger and a type of the
collected waste
Visual survey
To collect hazardous waste in a liquid and pastelike
phase in the special capacities providing tightness and
anticorrosive stability and established in the specially
allotted place
Visual survey
The construction organization has to get Permission to
waste disposal
Analysis of confirming
documentation
The waste which is formed as a result of construction
activity has to be taken out to the dump or processed by
Analysis of confirming
documentation
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the licensed companies
To observe that the placed waste wasn't in places of
possible flooding
Visual survey
If asbestos is located on the project site, it shall be
marked clearly as hazardous material
Visual survey
When possible the asbestos will be appropriately
contained and sealed to minimize exposure
Visual survey
In case of need works with asbestos materials, workers
have to wear goggles, masks and gloves
Observation
The asbestos prior to removal (if removal is necessary)
will be treated with a wetting agent to minimize
asbestos dust.
Observation
Asbestos will be handled and disposed by skilled and
experienced professionals
Analysis of confirming
documentation
If asbestos material is be stored temporarily, the wastes
should be securely enclosed inside closed containments
and marked appropriately
Visual survey
The removed asbestos will not be reused Analysis of confirming
documentation
The waste containing asbestos has to be transported
according to the legislation of the Republic of Belarus
on transportation of hazardous waste
Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
F. Effect of physical factors (noise,
vibration, etc.)
To organize work from 7:00 till 23:00 on weekdays Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
To minimize operating time of the rustling equipment
idling
Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
To use the modern equipment and mechanisms with the
low level of noise and vibration
Visual survey,
if necessary – instrumental control
of noise levels, vibration levels
Motor casings of generators, air compressors and other Visual survey,
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100
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similar equipment have to be covered, the equipment
has to be on the maximum distance from the housing
if necessary – instrumental control
of noise levels, vibration levels
All workers have to be provided with individual
protection equipment
Observation, interviewing, analysis
of confirming documentation
G. Health of construction
personnel
All works have to be carried out with observance of
measures on construction safety and rules of carrying
out construction works for reduction of health and
environment impact
Periodic inspections, observation,
interviewing, analysis of
confirming documentation
Training in safety measures for all workers before
works
Interviewing, analysis of
confirming documentation
All workers have to be provided with individual
protection equipment. Individual protection equipment
has to conform to requirements of the international
standards (construction helmets, as required respirators
and goggles, safety mechanisms and special footwear
are always used)
Observation, interviewing, analysis
of confirming documentation
The corresponding bulletin boards on a building site
have to inform workers on key rules and requirements
which need to be observed
Visual survey, interviewing
Implementation of rules and security guidelines,
including use of individual protection equipment, has to
be encouraged and controlled on a regular basis
Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
H. Occurrence of emergency
situations
All works have to be performed according to
requirements of labor protection and safety measures
Periodic inspections, observation,
analysis of confirming
documentation
The personnel have to be trained in actions in case of
emergency situations
Interviewing, analysis of
confirming documentation
I. Violation of road traffic
organization
The warning signs for the population and public
transport about all potentially dangerous works have to
be established
Visual survey
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101
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The control system of the movement and training of
personnel, especially for ensuring access to an object
and nearby heavy traffic has to be organized. Safe
passes and transitions for pedestrians in places of the
movement of the construction equipment have to be
organized
Visual survey, analysis of
confirming documentation
Correction of operating time depending on the local
movement has to be carried out, for example, to avoid
active traffic by rush hour
Observation, analysis of confirming
documentation
Safe and continuous access for the population to all
nearby offices, objects of trade and houses during
construction works has to be provided
Visual survey
J. Social impacts To develop and introduce the mechanism of
consideration of addresses for receiving responses and
complaints at the local level
Interviewing, analysis of
confirming documentation
To carry out among construction personnel explanatory
work about need of correct behavior with locals
Interviewing, analysis of
confirming documentation
To place the stand with the general information on the
realized subproject. It is obligatory to specify terms of
implementation of the subproject
Visual survey
To place plates with apologies for temporary
inconveniences in case of violation of an esthetic look,
restriction or blocking of passes
Interviewing, visual survey
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Training program for the experts involved in implementation of the Project
№ The experts involved
in implementation of
the Project
Training subject The training organization The training program Cost
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 Experts of the PMU Requirements of the
environmental protection
legislation of the
Republic of Belarus
State Educational Institution
“Republican Center of State
Ecological Expertise and
Raising of Qualification of
Executive Employees and
Specialists”
The course “Environmental
protection”
2 persons х 250
USD
Environmental
assessment
State Educational Institution
“Republican Center of State
Ecological Expertise and
Raising of Qualification of
Executive Employees and
Specialists”
The course “Environmental
assessment regarding atmospheric air,
an ozone layer, a plant and animal
life, radioactive effects and carrying
out public discussions”
2 persons х 300
USD
Environmental
assessment
State Educational Institution
“Republican Center of State
Ecological Expertise and
Raising of Qualification of
Executive Employees and
Specialists”
The seminar “Implementation of the
Law of the Republic of Belarus “On
state ecological expertise, strategic
environmental assessment and
environmental impact assessment”
2 persons х 300
USD
Environmental
assessment
State Educational Institution
“Republican Center of State
Ecological Expertise and
Raising of Qualification of
Executive Employees and
The course “Requirements to the
“Environmental protection” section of
the project documents”
2 persons х 250
USD
103
103
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Specialists”
Requirements of the
World Bank and the
European Investment
Bank when holding a
procedure of
environmental
assessment,
requirements of the
World Bank and the
European Investment
Bank Safeguard Policies,
fundamentals of social
and environmental
policies
The PMU Environmental
Specialist
Courses, seminars on the
corresponding subjects
2 persons х 2000
USD
2 Representatives of
Oblast Thermal
Modernization Funds
Requirements of the
environmental protection
legislation of the
Republic of Belarus
State Educational Institution
“Republican Center of State
Ecological Expertise and
Raising of Qualification of
Executive Employees and
Specialists”
The course “Environmental
protection”
10 persons х 250
USD
Requirements of the
environmental protection
legislation of the
Republic of Belarus
State Educational Institution
“Republican Center of State
Ecological Expertise and
Raising of Qualification of
Executive Employees and
Specialists”
The course “Requirements to
observance of the environmental
protection legislation in the
organizations of housing and
communal services”
10 persons х 250
USD
Environmental
assessment
State Educational Institution
“Republican Center of State
Ecological Expertise and
Raising of Qualification of
The course “Environmental
assessment regarding atmospheric air,
an ozone layer, a plant and animal
life, radioactive effects and carrying
10 persons х 300
USD
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104
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Executive Employees and
Specialists”
out public discussions”
Environmental
assessment
State Educational Institution
“Republican Center of State
Ecological Expertise and
Raising of Qualification of
Executive Employees and
Specialists”
The seminar “Implementation of the
Law of the Republic of Belarus “On
state ecological expertise, strategic
environmental assessment and
environmental impact assessment”
10 persons х 300
USD
Requirements of power
audit and rationing of
consumption of fuel and
energy resources
State Institute of Professional
Development and Personnel
Training at Gas Supply Field
“GAS-INSTITUTE”
The educational program “Power
audit and rationing of consumption of
fuel and energy resources”
10 persons х 200
USD
Requirements of energy
saving, increase in
efficiency of fuel and
energy resources use
State Institute of Professional
Development and Personnel
Training at Gas Supply Field
“GAS-INSTITUTE”
The educational program “Energy
saving, increase in efficiency of fuel
and energy resources use”
10 persons х 200
USD
Production
environmental control
State Institute of Professional
Development and Personnel
Training at Gas Supply Field
“GAS-INSTITUTE”
The educational program
“Environmental saving activity and
production environmental control”
10 persons х 200
USD
Production
environmental control
State Educational Institution
“Republican Center of State
Ecological Expertise and
Raising of Qualification of
Executive Employees and
Specialists”
The course “Production
environmental control”
10 persons х 250
USD
Appointment and basic
provisions of the ESMF;
The analysis of
requirements of the
World Bank/the
RUE “BELINVESTENERGO-
SBEREJENIE”
Seminars on training in basic
provisions of the ESMF, it practical
application
10 persons х 200
USD
105
105
1 2 3 4 5 6
European Investment
Bank when holding a
procedure of
environmental and social
screening;
ESMP development
3 Representatives of
the contract
organizations which
are carrying out
works on
construction
(reconstruction)
Requirements of the
environmental protection
legislation of the
Republic of Belarus
State Educational Institution
“Republican Center of State
Ecological Expertise and
Raising of Qualification of
Executive Employees and
Specialists”
The course “Environmental
protection”
10 persons х 250
USD
Requirements of the
environmental protection
legislation of the
Republic of Belarus in
construction
State Educational Institution
“Republican Center of State
Ecological Expertise and
Raising of Qualification of
Executive Employees and
Specialists”
The seminar “Waste management at
construction and reconstruction
activity”
10 persons х 200
USD
Requirements of labor
protection and safety
measures in construction
Republican center of labor
protection of the Ministry of
Labor and Social Protection of
the Republic of Belarus
The course “Labor protection and
safety measures in construction”
10 persons х 400
USD
4 Representatives of
Customers
Requirements of the
environmental protection
legislation of the
Republic of Belarus in
operation of buildings
and constructions
State Educational Institution
“Republican Center of State
Ecological Expertise and
Raising of Qualification of
Executive Employees and
Specialists”
The course “Environmental
protection”
10 persons х 250
USD
Requirements of the
environmental protection
legislation of the
State Educational Institution
“Republican Center of State
Ecological Expertise and
The course “Waste management:
collecting, storage and burial,
transportation, use and neutralization”
10 persons х 300
USD
106
106
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Republic of Belarus in
operation of buildings
and constructions
Raising of Qualification of
Executive Employees and
Specialists”
Requirements of the
environmental protection
legislation of the
Republic of Belarus in
operation of buildings
and constructions
State Educational Institution
“Republican Center of State
Ecological Expertise and
Raising of Qualification of
Executive Employees and
Specialists”
The course “Production
environmental control”
10 persons х 250
USD
Requirements of the
environmental protection
legislation of the
Republic of Belarus in
operation of buildings
and constructions
State Educational Institution
“Republican Center of State
Ecological Expertise and
Raising of Qualification of
Executive Employees and
Specialists”
The seminar “Procedure of
maintaining environmental passport of
enterprise”
10 persons х 150
USD
Requirements of the
environmental protection
legislation of the
Republic of Belarus in
operation of buildings
and constructions
State Educational Institution
“Republican Center of State
Ecological Expertise and
Raising of Qualification of
Executive Employees and
Specialists”
The seminar “Procedure of
maintaining primary environmental
documentation at the enterprises”
10 persons х 150
USD
Requirements of the
environmental protection
legislation of the
Republic of Belarus in
operation of buildings
and constructions
State Educational Institution
“Republican Center of State
Ecological Expertise and
Raising of Qualification of
Executive Employees and
Specialists”
The course “Requirements to
observance of the environmental
protection legislation in the
organizations of housing and
communal services”
10 persons х 250
USD
Requirements of the
environmental protection
legislation of the
Republic of Belarus in
State Educational Institution
“Republican Center of State
Ecological Expertise and
Raising of Qualification of
The course “The new ecological
standards and rules EcоS&R
17.01.06-001-2017”
10 persons х 300
USD
107
107
1 2 3 4 5 6
operation of buildings
and constructions
Executive Employees and
Specialists”
Requirements of labor
protection and safety
measures legislation of
the Republic of Belarus
in operation of buildings
and constructions
Republican center of labor
protection of the Ministry of
Labor and Social Protection of
the Republic of Belarus
The course “Labor protection and
safety measures in operation of
buildings and constructions”
10 persons х 400
USD
5 All experts
participating on
implementation of
the Project
Appointment and basic
provisions of the ESMF;
The analysis of
requirements of the
World Bank/the
European Investment
Bank when holding a
procedure of
environmental and social
screening;
ESMP development
RUE “BELINVESTENERGO-
SBEREJENIE”
Preparation, listing and distribution of
various information materials and
operations
5000 USD
TOTAL 61700 USD
Note. This program is not final. The presence of programs at the training organizations will be specified.
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Indicators of the project results
Title of the
Subproject
Subproject
category (B
or C)
The name of
organization
realizing the
Subproject
The realized
actions for
impact
reduction
The unrealized
actions for
impact reduction
The reason
of
unrealization
The
correcting
action,
term of
realization
The list of
the
complaints
received
during the
subproject
realization
The
penalties
received
during the
subproject
realization
The list of
held
seminars,
proposed
capacity
building
activities
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
TOTAL
quantity
– – 5 6 – – 6 3 2
! The numbers in columns 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 are presented for an example of analytical information
Title of the
Subproject
Subproject
category (B or C)
The name of
organization
realizing the
Subproject
The quantity
of realized
actions
The quantity of
unrealized
actions
The
quantity of
complaints
The
quantity
of
penalties
The quantity of held
seminars, proposed
capacity building
activities
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Subproject №1 В Organization 1 5 1 2 1 2
Subproject №2 C Organization 2 8 2 1 2 2
TOTAL
quantity
2, of it:
B – 1;
C – 1
– 13 3 3 3 4
! Information is provided in the table for an example
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Record of complaints/inquires
COMPLAINT/INQUIRY RECORD
Instructions: This form is to be completed by staff receiving the inquiry or complaint and kept in the
Project’s file. Attach any supporting documentation/letters as relevant.
Date Complaint Received:
Name of Staff Completing Form:
Complaint Received (check √):
□ National level □ Oblast level □ District level □ Village level
Mode of Filing Inquiry or Complaint (check √):
□ In person □ Telephone □ E-mail □ Phone Text Message □ Website
□ Complaint /Suggestion box □ Community meeting □ Public consultation □ Other ______________
Name of Person Raising Complaint: (information is optional and always treated as confidential)
Gender: □ Male □ Female
Address or contact information for Person Raising Complaint: (information is optional and
confidential)
Location where complaint /problem occurred [write in]
National level:
Oblast level: District level:
Village level:
Brief Description of Complaint or Inquiry: (Provide as much detail and facts as possible)
Category 1 Social Safeguards
Category 2 Environmental Safeguards
Category 3 Complaints regarding violations of policies, guidelines and procedures
Category 4 Complaints regarding contract violations
Category 5
Complaints regarding the misuse of funds/lack of transparency, or other
financial management concerns
Category 6
Complaints regarding abuse of power/intervention by project or government
officials
Category 7 Complaints regarding MERP staff performance
Category 8 Reports of force majeure
Category 9 Complaint about project interventions
Category 10 Other
Who should handle and follow up on the complaint:
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Progress in resolving the complaints (e.g answered, being resolved, settled):
Other comments:
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APPROVED BY
October “05”, 2018
MINUTES OF CONSULTATION MEETING
Sustainable Energy Scale-Up Project
Environmental and Social Management Framework
Minsk October 05, 2018
The consultation meeting with the interested parties for discussion of the Environmental and Social
Management Framework (ESMF) with respect to the Sustainable Energy Scale-Up Project, developed
according to the requirements of the World Bank (WB), took place on October 5, 2018 from 11:00 till 12:00 at
RUE “Belinvestenergosberezhenie” at the following address: 12 Dolgobrodskaya str., Bldg. 2N, Minsk. The
ESMF describes procedures and mechanisms, which shall be implemented within the framework of the project
activities for meeting the requirements on environmental protection and social sphere protection according to
the legislation of the Republic of Belarus and Safeguard Policies of the World Bank.
The ESMF together with an announcement about holding of the consultation meeting was posted on the
websites of RUE “Belinvestenergosberezhenie”; the Energy Efficiency Department of Gosstandart and Oblast
Executive Committees of Brest, Vitebsk, Gomel, Grodno, Minsk and Mogilev oblasts from September 12 till
September 15, 2018.
Possible comments and suggestions of the interested parties with respect to the ESMF could have been
sent to RUE “Belinvestenergosberezhenie”, the organization responsible for conducting of public discussions,
not later than October 1, 2018, by mail: 12 Dolgobrodskaya str., Bldg. 2N, 220037, Minsk, to e-mail:
[email protected] or by phone 352-58-25.
Possible comments and suggestions of the interested parties with respect to the ESMF had been not
received by RUE “Belinvestenergosberezhenie” till the specified time.
The PMU Employees of RUE “Belinvestenergosberezhenie” participated in the consultation meeting, as
well as developers of the ESMP, for whom presentation of the ESMF was held. Representatives of the -Oblast
Executive Committees, non-governmental organizations and other interested parties did not take part in the
consultation meeting. The presentation included overall overview of the document, description and explanation
of national procedures for the Environmental Impact Assessment and social aspects, including differences of
national procedures and Safeguard Policies of the World Bank, and also clarifications on drawing-up of the
Environmental and Social Management Plans (ESMPs).
Comments and suggestions were not received in the course of the consultation meeting.
Minutes were kept by
Deputy Head of the Technical Control
Department
(signed)
D.A. Petrovich
Chief Engineer of the Projects
of the Subdivision
for Implementation
of IBRD Projects (signed) A.I. Korol
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