Provisional Regulation No. RND 211.3.02.01-96 of the Ministry of Ecology and Biological Resources on environmental audit. Country/Territory Kazakhstan Document type Regulation Date 1996 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Environment gen. Keyword Environmental audit EIA Data collection/reporting Geographical area Aral Sea, Asia, Caspian Sea, Central Asia, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Europe and Central Asia, Landlocked Developing Nations, North Asia Abstract The present Regulation establishes the proceedings of environmental audit for the functioning enterprise, sets the requirements for the environmental audit documentation and the modalities of concordance and validation thereof. The grounds for environmental audit shall be: (a) availability of data attesting high negative environmental impact of an enterprise; (b) incompleteness and unreliability of data regarding environmental impact hindering ecological inspection; (c) violation of environmental legislation; (d) request of the enterprise. Environmental audit shall be supplemented with audit report and shall be subject to sanitary, epidemiological and ecological expertise after the completion of which it shall be definitely validated. Annex 3 contains model form of environmental audit. Full text Russian Website www.pavlodar.com