Law No. 308-I on the prevention and liquidation of emergencies. Country/Territory Turkmenistan Document type Legislation Date 1998 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Environment gen. Keyword Disasters Classification/declassification Early warning system/emergency intervention system Access-to-information Monitoring Geographical area Asia, Central Asia, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Landlocked Developing Nations, North Asia Entry into force notes The Law enters into force from the date of its official publication. Abstract The present Law establishes the legal basis for the activity aimed at the prevention and liquidation of emergencies and the consequences thereof. Emergency is an extraordinary situation on a defined territory as a result of an accident, disaster and other calamities of environmental and ecological type that may damage environment. The Council of Ministers is entitled with the task of valuation and classification of emergencies, the modalities of rating of emergencies as national, regional, local Full text Russian