Don't burn!

The Vitebsk Regional Committee and the Inspectorates of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection urge not to burn dry vegetation and not to allow agricultural fires, as fire is a source of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere, and warns that responsibility for violating fire safety legislation is provided for in a number of articles of the Code of Administrative Offences (KoAP).

Thus, according to Article 15.29 of the KoAP, violation of fire safety requirements in forests or on peatlands, or prohibition of their visit, which did not cause damage, entails a warning or a fine of up to twenty-five base units, and violation of fire safety requirements in forests or on peatlands, which caused destruction or damage to forests or peatlands, entails a fine of twenty-five to fifty base units. According to Article 15.57 of the KoAP, burning dry vegetation, standing crops, as well as stubble and post-harvest residues in fields, or failure to take measures to extinguish fires on land plots, entails a fine of ten to forty base units.

According to Article 15.58 of the KoAP, lighting fires in prohibited places entails a warning or a fine of up to twelve base units.