OREANDA-NEWS. November 06, 2008. In line with Belarus Council of Ministers’ resolution No 1639, the interdepartmental council of experts for energy-efficient technologies, equipment and materials has been set up in Belarus, reported the Official website www.government.by.

The council is led by Leonid Shenets, the Deputy Chairman of the Belarus State Standardization Committee, director of the energy efficiency department. The council also includes representatives of the ministries of energy, municipal housing economy, architecture and construction, economy, Belarus National Academy of Sciences, State Committee for Science and Technology, companies and universities.

The mission of the interdepartmental council is to improve the efficiency of energy and fuel utilization which stipulated in Directive No 3 on economy and thrift. The council will prepare the proposals regarding energy-efficient technologies, equipment and materials and coordinate the cooperation between national state bodies, executive committees in energy efficiency.

The new organization will focus on the development of the system of record keeping and regulation of all kinds of energy resources, promotion of local, alternative and renewable energy, introduction of the equipment running on waste energy, creation of high energy efficiency demo sites.

The council will prepare the proposals to improve the legislation in energy saving, develop documents (concepts, sci-tech and other programmes) to settle the basic problems of the rational use of fuel and energy. The council will take organizational and other measures to reduce energy capacity of products, improve their quality and competitiveness.

The council of experts will function on a permanent basis. Its decisions should be taken into consideration by the national administration bodies, oblast executive committees, Minsk City Coucnil, other organizations.