Ministerial Decree No. 956 on land monitoring. Country/Territory Kazakhstan Document type Regulation Date 2003 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Land & soil Keyword Monitoring Survey/mapping Land valuation Data collection/reporting Zoning Geographical area Aral Sea, Asia, Caspian Sea, Central Asia, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Europe and Central Asia, Landlocked Developing Nations, North Asia Abstract This Ministerial Decree establishes the structure and rules and regulations as regards land monitoring and the use of data related thereto. Land monitoring shall include survey, mapping and land valuation. Land monitoring shall be subdivided into: (a) monitoring of agricultural land; (b) monitoring of urban land; (c) monitoring of industrial land; (d) monitoring of protected areas; (e) monitoring of forest land; (f) monitoring of land under waterbodies; and (g) monitoring of reserve land. Land monitoring shall be the competence of the national land institution and it shall be carried out in accordance with the common scheme. Data obtained as a result of distant zoning of the Earth, land inventory and land cadastre shall be used for land monitoring. Full text Russian Website zher.kz