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Joint Order No. 787/396/256/910 of the State Committee for Environmental Protection, of the Ministry of Health, of the Federal Geological and Industrial Survey and the State Customs Committee regarding the validation of the Regulation of the modalities of control and supervision over transborder transportation of hazardous waste products.

Country/Territory
Russian Federation
Document type
Regulation
Date
1998
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Waste & hazardous substances
Keyword
Transboundary movement of waste Inspection
Geographical area
Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific
Abstract

The main purpose of control and survey over transboundary movement of hazardous waste shall be to ensure meeting ecological, sanitary and hygienic, and safety requirements by individual entrepreneurs and legal persons carrying out the aforesaid activity. Control arrangements shall ensure meeting the requirements of ecological safety (as envisaged also by international agreements and treaties) in the process of transboundary movement of waste by the organizations. The first deputy chief of the State Committee for Environmental Protection, the first deputy chief of the State Customs Committee, the first deputy Minister of Health, the Chief Sanitary Inspector and the first deputy chief of the Federal Geological and Industrial Survey of the Russian Federation are entitled to exercise control over the application jf the present Regulation.

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