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Order No. 397 of the Ministry of Environmental Protection validating the Regulation on quarterly information of the population by mass media on the most polluting sites.

Country/Territory
Ukraine
Document type
Regulation
Date
2005
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Environment gen.
Keyword
Access-to-information Data collection/reporting
Geographical area
Black Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia
Abstract

The Regulation consists of 4 Sections dealing with the following matters: 1) general provisions (sect. 1); 2) the main principles of information (sect. 2); 3) data collection and reporting (sect. 3); 4) the modalities of access to environmental information (sect. 4). The Regulation establishes legal and organizational basis for ensuring, collection, reporting, spreading and access to information regarding the most polluting sites. The main principles of information shall be: 1) timeliness; 2) objectivity; 3) completeness and accessibility. Territorial branches of the Ministry of Environmental Protection shall be in charge of data collection and generalization of information. The Ministry of Environmental Protection shall analyse conceded information and shall accurately define the most polluting sites. The Ministry shall display all the available environmental information on its official web-site and shall submit it to mass media for the information of the population.

Full text
Ukrainian
Website
www.rada.kiev.ua