Ministerial Decree No. 1391 validating the Regulation on state supervision in the sphere of protection and management of protected areas. Country/Territory Russian Federation Document type Regulation Date 2012 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Environment gen. Keyword Institution Protected area Offences/penalties Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings 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 This Ministerial Decree establishes the modalities of carrying out state supervision in the sphere of protection and management of protected areas by Federal Nature Management Supervision Service in the process of carrying out environmental audit and by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology in protected areas of federal significance. The scope of supervision, in the forms of control and checking, shall be to verify compliance with the requirements set for protected areas, by legal persons and individual entrepreneurs carrying out economic and other activities within protected. As regards stay of citizens in protected areas state inspectors must check permits for stay, compliance with protection regime, gun registration and authorization to possess firearms (hunting gear), and wild fauna and wild flora products they are found in possession of. Full text Russian Website www.garant.ru