The Council of Ministers today decided to restructure and strengthen the "Mines Service" of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment, as well as to rename it the "Mines and Quarries Service".
Presenting the proposal to the Council of Ministers, Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment Costas Kadis noted that the strategic objective of the Service is to ensure the sustainable management of mineral resources and to maintain the country's self-sufficiency in available (licensed) reserves to meet its needs in the long term. A key pillar for ensuring the sustainability of mineral resources, he stressed, is the implementation of the circular economy model in the mining and quarrying industry.
According to the Proposal, in order to enable the implementation of rational and sustainable development of mineral resources with safety for workers in the sector and the least possible impact on the environment, to implement the circular economy in the mining and quarrying industry, as well as to enable the acceleration of the rehabilitation of old mines, I Furthermore, in view of the fact that most of the services it provides relate to quarries, it was considered appropriate to rename it the 'Mines and Quarries Service'.
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