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Order No.188 of 1994 of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources regarding arrangements for the fulfilment of the provisions of the ministerial Decree No.515 of 1994 regulating fines for the damage caused by annihilation, fraudulent fishery or harvest of marine biodiversity.

Country/Territory
Russian Federation
Document type
Regulation
Date
1994
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Fisheries
Keyword
Biodiversity Inland fisheries Marine fisheries Territorial sea Continental shelf EEZ-Exclusive Economic Zone Coastal zone management Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Offences/penalties Diadromous fish Aquatic animals Maritime zone
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 issue.
Abstract

The Government, for the purpose of protection of precious stock of fish, marine mammals and aquatic invertebrate in the Russian defined areas of water, decrees to validate fees for calculation of damage caused by natural persons, legal persons and stateless persons by annihilation, fraudulent fishery or harvest of aquatic biodiversity in inland water basins, territorial water, continental shelf and EEZ of the Russian Federation and to the stock of anadromous fish species originating from the rivers of Russia, over the limits of EEZ of the Russian Federation and up to the external economic and fishing areas of the foreign states (Annex 1). Regional executive bodies are authorized to validate fees for the calculation of damage caused by natural persons, legal persons and stateless persons by annihilation, fraudulent fisheries or harvest of aquatic biodiversity not envisaged by the present Ministerial Decree. The amount of damage caused to the stock of fish and other aquatic biodiversity as a result of the infringement of the legislation on protection of the stock of fish by operation, construction, re-construction and expansion of the enterprises, works and other objects and carrying out other activities in the water basins and coastal zones (areas), must be calculated on the basis of methodical instructions validated jointly by the Federal Fisheries Committee and by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources and coordinated by the Ministry of Finance.

Full text
Russian

References - Legislation

Implements

Order No.126 of 1994 of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural resources regarding valuation of fees for the calculation of damage caused by illegal hunting, picking or annihilation of wildlife species or plants.

Legislation | Russian Federation | 1994

Keyword: Amphibians, Birds, Collecting/harvesting, Endangered species, Hunting/capture, Offences/penalties, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Protection of species, Wild fauna

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Ministerial Decree No. 515 regulating fines for the damage caused by annihilation, fraudulent fishery or harvest of marine biodiversity.

Legislation | Russian Federation | 1994

Keyword: Biodiversity, Inland fisheries, Marine fisheries, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Offences/penalties, Diadromous fish, Aquatic animals

Source: FAO, FAOLEX