6 - 7 April 2017, Moscow, Complex of office buildings of the Government of Moscow
In the framework of the Russian Industrial and Environmental Forum «RosPromEco-2013» Russian and foreign experts will discuss topical issues of environmental insurance development in the Russian Federation and suggest their proposals in the draft of the Russian Federal law «On compulsory ecological insurance», etc.
Currently, the trend in international environmental legislation is the selection of insurance of liability for damage to the natural environment of the insurance of General civil liability. For example, the European Union Directive 2004/35/EC «On environmental liability with regard to the prevention and elimination of damage to the environment» does not stipulate the right of individual and legal persons to compensation for damages (in the case of damage to individual and legal persons, their health and property, they may claim damages in accordance with the national law on civil liability).
Now for the CIS members it is developing the third edition of the draft law “On environmental insurance» taking into account the norms of the Draft law «On environmental liability with regard to the prevention and elimination of damage to the environment» which was developed on a basis of the European Directive 2004/35/EC «On environmental liability with regard to the prevention and elimination of harm to the environment adopted 03th of December, 2009.
At the same time, Russia could not form the environmental insurance system and its regulatory support in full. Currently the insurance market has no special system of environmental objects’ insurance protection: a selection of ecological insurance from general civil liability’ insurance is not done, compensation of damage to the environment occurs within a single policy. Natural objects are actually outside the scope of insurance coverage.
In the field of environmental insurance it is not used a preventive function of insurance, with the right approach which allows to prevent environmental risks or to reduce the consequences of their negative influence. The introduction of environmental insurance (both mandatory and voluntary) difficult and economic reasons, which do not allow to consider this type of insurance as a market instrument control in the sphere of environmental protection.
Currently the working group of the Federation Council Committee on agrarian and food policy and nature management develops the project of the Federal law of the Russian Federation «On compulsory ecological insurance», which will become a basis of creation of the unified system of prevention, liquidation of damages and the restoration of the environment.
According to the results of the round table «Environmental insurance as an environmental safety instrument» in the framework of the Russian Industrial and Ecological Forum «RosPromEco-2013» will make recommendations that will be forwarded to the executive and legislative authorities of the Russian Federation.
