Russian-Norwegian Cleaner Production Centre
CLEANER  PRODUCTION  CENTRE		 The Norwegian Society of Chartered Technical and Scientific Professionals
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Proposals of Russian-Norwegian Cleaner Production Centre on projects
eligible for inclusion in NEFCO/AMAP's priority list
and in EC's Northern Dimension Action Plan for the years 2004 - 2006
1.The ''Big lakes'' Programme - development of investment projects using Cleaner Production training, financial engineering, environmental permitting system (BAT) and EMS for enterprises that affect by their effluents the lakes Ladoga, Onega, Ilmen and Chudskoe.

Participants - pulp & paper mills of Pitkiaranta, Kondopoga, Segezh, Siasi; housing and communal services of Veliky Novgorod, Petrozavodsk, Priozersk, Suoiarvi, Sortavala and others; port terminals of Medvezhiegorsk, Petrozavodsk, Vytegra and others; machine building plants of the North - West region.

Objective - reduction of loads on the Baltic sea
2.The Cleaner Production Training Programme, development of environmental permitting system (BAT) and EMS for the pool of timber processing plants in the North - West, in the first place for the Kotlas pulp & paper mill and the Syktyvkar and the Arkhangelsk timber processing & wood working plants
3.3. Working up of investment projects using Cleaner Production training and environmental permitting system (BAT) for transport systems:
  • by sea, with due regard for handling oil and petroleum products in the ports of St. Petersburg, Vyborg, Vysotsk, Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Kandalaksha and Kaliningrad;
  • by rail for oil, raw materials transportation, which is aimed at fuel economy and wastes reduction on the spans Petrozavodsk - Murmansk, the Severnaya railroad, and St. Petersburg - Kaliningrad, the Oktiabrskaya railroad
4.Working up of investment projects using Cleaner Production training and environmental permitting system (BAT) for power industry, which is continuation of the Cleaner Production Programme carried out at ''Komienergo'' and ''Arkhenergo'' power entities, and ''Karelenergo'', ''Kolaenergo'', ''Lenenergo'' and ''Kaliningrad'' power systems
5.Cleaner Production methodology for the housing and communal services. Transition to local fuel and economy of imported combustible, reduction in water and heat consumption
6.Implementation of the Cleaner Production Programme and the environmental permitting system (BAT) Programme to reduce amount of dioxin discharged into the Arctic basin as runoff rivers Sukhona - Severnaya (Northern) Dvina from principal dioxin sources - the Solombala, Novodvinsk and Kotlas pulp & paper mills
7.Co-operation in interchange of the expertise gained in exercising BAT-based environmental permitting system and environment protection control, for harmonization of the Russian environmental legislation to international standards, EC directives and HELCOM recommendations.

Use of experience gathered environmental permitting system elaborated within the framework of a project for five pilot enterprises of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region (JSC 'St. Petersburg printing plant', JSC 'Kozha', Fish processing plant ¹ 1 and Fishing port, SUE 'SPb Vodokanal' sewage works in Pushkin) - in favour of the Barents and Baltic seas
8.Realization of EMS at enterprises which formed towns and in corresponding town municipalities, particularly, of pilot towns - Severodvinsk, including 'Zvezdochka' and 'Sevmashpredpriatie' of the State Centre for Nuclear Shipbuilding, and Monchegorsk, including the Lapland nature reserve, JSC 'Severonickel' and the Kola Nuclear Power Station together with IUCN European Programme, office for Russia/CIS