UnderNIK (Supreme Audit Office) inspection carried out in 2007 and 2011, thesupervision of livestock production operations by state authorities wasdemonstrated to be insufficient and ineffective. Thefirst inspection examined and evaluated state authorities? supervisionof the development and implementation of large-scale swine productionpolicy, large-scale swine production operations, compliance with health,veterinary and environmental protection regulations, and the use ofpublic funding allocated to animal rearing and breeding operations.
Thestate authorities? supervision of the development and implementation oflarge-scale swine production policy has been negatively evaluated.There were no suitable organisational and legal conditions created forongoing collection of reliable information on the number of large-scaleswine production holdings established, or the scale of livestockproduction; surveillance over these holdings proved to be equallyineffective. Inspections performed by the Veterinary Inspection,Environmental Protection Inspection, and the State Sanitary Inspectionhave been assessed negatively; it was revealed that such inspectionprocedures failed to cover all large-scale swine production holdings,and did not comprehensively examined whether the standards for naturalfertilisers were properly followed. Cooperation and coordination ofactions between these institutions were also demonstrated to beinsufficient.
Therewere numerous cases of violations of environmental protectionregulations by large-scale swine production operations, which should beof great concern. And in particular, many large-scale swine productionholdings failed to acquire integrated permits on time, or to drawn upslurry management plans. It was also revealed that that many large-scaleswine production holdings violated construction law regulations(construction or adaptation of livestock buildings without having therequired permits, introducing unauthorised material changes in theenvisaged use of buildings).
Inan inspection of supervision of fur farms by state authorities carriedout 4 years later, the state surveillance over the operations of furfarms was negatively assessed mainly because of proved ineffectivenessof such inspections.
Underthe Environmental Protection Law (Article 379), compliance andenforcement of environmental protection regulations are supervised bythe Province Marshal, Staroste andlocal district administrator, citymajor or president. The Act confers wide-ranging inspection rights tolocal government authorities, i.e. local government authorities areauthorised to enter, in the presence of surveyors and all necessaryequipment, the real estate, facility, or any part thereof where anyeconomic activities are taking place, and are authorised to stay therefor 24 h in order to perform tests or other necessary inspectionactivities, to demand information, in writing and oral, and to summonand interview individuals, to the extent necessary to determine thefactual circumstances, and to demand access to documents and data in allinspection-related matters.However, in terms of state supervision oflarge-scale livestock production holdings, local authorities are veryreluctant to exercise their inspection authorisations.
Withrespect to the obligation to obtain an integrated permit by large-scalelivestock farms, by 2009 this obligation has been defaulted on by (thedeadline expired by the end of 2007):