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According to the company, the Department of Environmental Protection calculated the damages according to the methodology approved in 2002, but had to be based on the 2004 and 2000 directives of the European Parliament and the Council.
“In the opinion of the management of Grigeo Klaip direcciónda, the fact and extent of the environmental damage should be determined by special scientific studies or other valid studies that aim to individualize the case according to the methods established in the directives, and not according to with the standardized mathematical formula established in the methodology, “Nasdaq told the Vilnius Stock Exchange company.
The company emphasizes that foreign TIG Environmental experts followed the 2000 directive, conducted an investigation into the damage and found that the area of the Curonian Lagoon affected by the sewage should have been limited and the impact on fish should not have occurred. .
The companies stated that they had not received the documents from which the department had calculated the damages and could not yet assess the possible impact of the compensation on the Grigeo group of companies.
The Department of Environmental Protection provided $ 48 million. A civil suit against Grigeo Klaipėda, a cardboard manufacturing company of the Grigeo Group, which contaminated the Curonian lagoon with untreated sewage. An action for compensation for material damage caused to the environment in a criminal case was filed with the Klaipėda Regional Public Prosecutor on Tuesday.
The amount of the civil lawsuit in March 2020 amounted to 3.9 million. euros.
Grigeo Klaipėda’s contamination was made public in January last year, when prosecutors launched an investigation into the contamination of the Curonian lagoon with untreated sewage.
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