Caspian Energy (CE): What could you say about the national environmental policy aimed at preventing the pollution caused by local industrial, tourism and agricultural facilities?
Anna Hubáčková, Minister of the Environment of the Czech Republic: As a member state of the European Union, we have a strong legislation to prevent harm to the environment caused by local industrial facilities or agriculture called Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control – IPPC. We are focusing mainly on prevention when we are limiting pollution before its beginning and we are doing everything to avoid possible harm to the environment. The key element of this approach is using so called best available technologies, the most state of art technologies and practices because it is making more sense than trying to eliminate pollution as they say at the end of the pipe.
In the Czech Republic because of its area we have got no tourism in real industrial scale. Damaging impact of tourism is mostly connected with overtourism driven in recent years by COVID-19 lockdowns.
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