Ministerial Decree No. 35 regarding the validation of the Federal Special Program "Forest-fire prevention for the period of 1999-2005". Country/Territory Russian Federation Document type Regulation Date 1999 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Forestry Keyword Forest fires 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 Government nominates customer-coordinator of the Program the Federal Forest Service. The Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food and the Federal Committee for Environmental Protection are nominated customers of the Programs in their respective spheres of competence. The main targets of the Program are the improvement of efficiency of forest-fire preventive measures through the realisation of the complex of organizational and technical measures, perfecting of economic and legal basis, improvement of scientific and technical provisions for the protection of forests. The Regulation consists of 7 Sections and 3 Annexes. Section 1 deals with the substance of the problem and justifies the necessity of its solution by means of program methods. Section 2 establishes the purposes and the tasks of the Program, fixes the terms and the stages of its realisation. Section 3 determines the organizational measures for the prevention of forest-fires. Section 4 regards financial measures for the support of this Program. Section 5 establishes the mechanism of the realisation of the Program. Section 6 regards the management of the Program and supervision over its realisation. Section 7 regards valuation of the economic efficiency of the realisation of the program measures. Full text Russian Website www.law.optima.ru.