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Ministerial Decree No. 588 of 2001 of the Ministry of Natural Resources regarding organizational matters within the system of the Ministry for the purpose of economy of energy and non-traditional sources of energy.

Country/Territory
Russian Federation
Document type
Miscellaneous
Date
2001
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Energy, Mineral resources
Keyword
Coal Energy conservation/energy production Fuelwood Hydropower generation Renewable energy Exploration Minerals Mining
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
Entry into force notes
Entry into force from the date of signature.
Abstract

The Minister, for the purpose of increasing the efficiency of the utilization of state property – the natural resources, ensuring the economy of the primary minerals, energetic, water and forest resources and involving non-traditional sources of energy into the energetic balance of the country, orders to set up independent division within the head office of the Ministry: Department of economy of energy and non-traditional sources of energy. The Minister orders to entitle the aforesaid Department with the following task: To ensure the complete extraction and rational utilization of primary mineral, forest and hydrological resources owing to: (a) estimates, expertise and valuation (quantitative, qualitative and chargeable) of the primary natural resources; (b) monitoring and control, including space technologies for land zoning; (c) elaboration in accordance with the established procedure of the norms and standards of the allowable losses corresponding to the international standards; (d) elaboration of the system of environmental charges, stimulating their rational utilization; (e) elaboration of the system of administrative proceedings (fines, sanctions); (f) elaboration of the complex measures for the involvement of non-traditional sources of energy into the economic activity; (g) elaboration in accordance with the established modalities of the consumption levels for the primary natural resources in order to ensure the national regime of the utilization of natural resources; (h) annual estimates of the investment capacity as regards primary and non-traditional natural resources; (i) annual projecting of the profitable section of the state budget on the basis of revenues for the utilization of natural resources.

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