Ministerial Decree No.140 of 1994 regarding recultivation, removal, conservation and rational use of the fertile layer of soil. Country/Territory Russian Federation Document type Regulation Date 1994 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Land & soil Keyword Soil conservation/soil improvement Soil pollution/quality 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 Government, for the purpose of ensuring recultivation, removal, conservation and rational use of the fertile layers of soil, as well as for strengthening control over timely restoration of damaged soil and its involvement into economic activity, decrees to establish that recultivation of land, damaged by legal persons and citizens in the process of exploration of minerals and peat, carrying out construction activity of all types, geological prospecting, land reclamation, projecting and prospecting and other types of activity, as well as storage and disposal of industrial, domestic and other types of waste, pollution of the surface land, if the terms and conditions of its restoration envisage removal of the fertile layer of soil, must be carried out by legal and natural persons at their own expense in accordance with the validated project of recultivation of land. Full text Russian References - Legislation Repealed by Governmental Decree No. 800 validating the Regulation on recultivation and conservation of land. Legislation | Russian Federation | 2018 (2019) Keyword: Agricultural land, Soil conservation/soil improvement, Drainage/land reclamation, Enforcement/compliance Source: FAO, FAOLEX