An ecological passport - a normative and technical document which includes enterprise’s data, information about an enterprise’s use of resources (natural, secondary and others).

 The ecological passport is used for assessment of influence of the enterprise’s activity on the environment.

 The ecological passport contains information about the ecological status of the enterprise.

Instructions on drawing up of the ecological passport for small and average enterprises set requirements for registration and contents of the ecological passport for small and average enterprises for assessment of their influence on environment and control of their observance of environment protection norms and rules in their daily activity.

Terms of working out of an Ecological Passport vary from 10 days till 3 months (depending on the project’s complexity)

Coordination term is about 3 months (depending on the project’s complexity)

The ecological passport consists of sections located in the following sequence:

•   Title page;
•  General data on an enterprise and its requisites;
•  Short characteristics of the enterprise’s activity;
•  Emission of polluting substances in atmosphere;
•  Characteristics of the dust and gas collecting equipment;
•  Water consumption calculation;
•  Balance of sewage of the enterprise;
•  Characteristics of cleaning facilities on sewage treatment;
•  Characteristics of the enterprise’s waste;
•  The enterprise’s transport;
•  Situational scheme of the enterprise’s placing.

Basic indicators of manufacture, the passport of gas and water treatment constructions, forms of the state statistical reporting and other standard and normative and technical documents serve as a basis for working out of the ecological passport.

After carrying out and obtaining of positive approval of the state ecological expertise the developed ecological passport is coordinated by the territorial body of environment protection.

Data of the ecological passport should be constantly updated.

In case of  reshaping or change of the technologies, replacement of equipment or raw materials, reductions or increases in quantity of sources of harmful influence on the surrounding environment, capacity and ownership changes a user of natural resources should make additions or updating of the ecological passport in coordination with territorial state bodies of the environment protection.