Environment minister wants less paperwork for smaller businesses...

The new environment minister, Pavel Drobil, says he wants to simplify and decrease the amount of paperwork his ministry requires of businesses. In presenting his priorities to reporters on Thursday, Mr Drobil said that he sees the regulation of small and medium-sized businesses as ineffective, because they play a negligible role in polluting the environment. Citing a ministerial analysis from 2008 that shows that three percent of businesses are responsible for 80% of all air pollution, Mr Drobil said he wanted to heavily regulate these polluters while taking the burden off of smaller companies. The ministry will therefore attempt to simplify the system and decrease the number of regulated businesses through amendments to laws regarding air pollution and waste.