OREANDA-NEWS. September 7, 2007. Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee signed the Order “On the Regulation Approval of Gazprom Environmental Inspection”.

The Environmental Inspection is a business subdivision of Gaznadzor, a 100 per cent subsidiary of Gazprom.

The major task of the Inspection will be a corporate control in the environmental sector aimed at increasing the efficiency of the environmental activity at Gazprom Group enterprises.

The Environmental Inspection will carry out inspection of the production and environmental control organization in Gazprom subsidiaries, control of accurate metering and gas efficient utilization by Gazprom companies, negative environmental impact of Gazprom companies as well as auditing of environmental protection management system. The Inspection will also analyze Gazprom subsidiaries cooperation with state control and supervisory authorities as well as non-state environmental organizations, improve corporate documents stipulating production and environmental control.