Order No. 721 of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology validating the Regulation on registration in the sphere of waste management. Country/Territory Russian Federation Document type Regulation Date 2011 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Waste & hazardous substances Keyword Waste management Recycling/reuse Environmental fees/charges Registration 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 This Order sets requirements related to registration by legal persons and individual entrepreneurs of accumulated waste, recycled waste, disposed waste and waste received from third parties and waste transferred to third parties. It shall not be applicable to radioactive waste, biological waste of medical and preventive treatment institutions, emissions to the atmospheric air and effluent waste water discharge. Registration data shall be used for: (a) inventory of waste; (b) elaboration of norms of waste accumulation, recycling and disposal of waste (except for statistical data); and (c) calculation of environmental fees. Full text Russian Website www.systema.ru