OREANDA-NEWS. October 5, 2009. KAMAZ Inc. became a winner of the annual Tatarstan competition “ECOleader” among the largest industrial enterprises of the republic for 2008 and received an award for the conservancy’s work. ZAO Chelnyvodokanal, KAMAZ’s subsidiary, also became a prize-winner of the contest.

The object of the competition held under the aegis of the RT Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources is to spread a positive experience enterprises and organizations gain in their nature conservation and resource-saving activities, to encourage the RT enterprises’ nature conservation activities. The winners and laureates were elected by a commission in five nominations. The competitors are large and small-scale Tatarstan enterprises, municipal enterprises, state reserves, wildlife preserves. A resource-saving and environmental protection program, adoption of resource-saving technologies, measures to decrease maximum permissible discharges and waste generation, environmental payments made in time are among competitive selection criteria.

This year a new way to encourage nature conservation activities of the enterprises which won in the competition was to exempt them from measures of state ecological monitoring for two years. The RT Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources considers it a good incentive for environmental protection activity.

KAMAZ Inc. has been participating in the competition “ECOleader” since 2006 and has become its winner for the third time. This year the company also received the second class prize of the National Ecological Award 2009 in a nomination “Environmental Policy”. These awards are a visual proof of the effective realization of KAMAZ‘s environmental policy.