In the Irkutsk region, legal entities and entrepreneurs working to preserve and improve the Baikal ecosystem will begin receiving subsidies from the regional budget. Funding will be provided under the environmental protection program, and the maximum support will be 700 thousand rubles. The material also lists in detail the conditions for receiving funds and the requirements for applicants.
Legal entities and individual entrepreneurs engaged in activities aimed at preserving and improving the unique ecosystem of Lake Baikal will be granted subsidies. Funds will be allocated annually from the regional budget within the framework of the long-term target program “Environmental Protection in the Irkutsk Region for 2011–2015.” The relevant decree was signed by the Governor of the Irkutsk Region, Sergei Eroshchenko.According to the document, subsidies are provided to legal entities (with the exception of state and municipal institutions). Organizations and entrepreneurs operating in the Angara region for at least 1 year prior to submitting an application for a subsidy, not undergoing liquidation or bankruptcy proceedings, not having misused previously granted subsidies, not having overdue tax and fee arrears to budgets of all levels, and having their own funds to carry out the event amounting to at least 10% of its cost are eligible for financing.
The amount of the subsidies is determined by the amount of expenses specified in the estimated cost of the event, minus the entrepreneur’s or organization’s own funds. At the same time, the amount of the subsidies may not exceed 700 thousand rubles.
Based on materials from the press service of the Governor of the Irkutsk Region and the Government of the Irkutsk Region