Resolution No. 219 of the Council of Ministers “On fees for determining the amount of compensation for damage caused to the environment, and the procedure for its calculation”.

This Resolution establishes that damage to the environment is considered to have been caused when one of the following facts is established: (a) emissions of pollutants to the atmospheric air; (b) effluent wastewater discharge; (c) land and soil degradation; (d) soil degradation and soil pollution; (e) illegal logging and timber extraction, destruction of forest stand and shrubbery; and (f) illegal removal or destruction of wild animals, including the killing of fish or other aquatic animals. In case of illegal removal or destruction of: (a) wild animals, their parts and (or) derivatives, falling under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora of March 3, 1973 (CITES specimens), damage shall be compensated on the basis of the rates established in Appendix 9, calculated in double the amount for each removed or destroyed wild animal; wild animals belonging to species included in the Red Book of endangered species of the Republic of Belarus, damage shall be compensated on the basis of the rates established in Appendix 9, calculated in triple the amount for each removed or destroyed wild animal; wild animals belonging to species included in the Red Book of endangered species of the Republic of Belarus and simultaneously being CITES specimens, damage is compensated on the basis of the rates established in Appendix 9, calculated in triple size for each removed or destroyed wild animal.