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Regional Law No. 104-Z No. 211-III “On environmental protection”.

Country/Territory
Russian Federation
Territorial subdivision
Sakha (Yakutia)
Document type
Legislation
Date
2003 (2009)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Environment gen.
Keyword
Local government Offences/penalties Liability/compensation Sustainable development
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
This Regional Law enters into force on the date of its official publication.
Abstract

This Regional Law establishes that environment and its natural resources shall be subject to protection as the basis for vital activity and socio-economic development of the population. The scope of this Regional Law shall be to safeguard the constitutional right of citizens to healthy and favourable natural environment for the benefit of the present and the future generations. It regulates relations between state bodies, local government, natural and legal persons in the sphere of environmental protection. This Regional Law sets forth the priorities in the sphere of environmental protection as follows: (a) priority of ecological interests of society over the economic ones; (b) priority of realization of environmental protection initiatives and arrangements; (c) rational and inexhaustible use of natural resources; (d) liability for environmental offences; and (e) unified system of ecological supervision and control.

Full text
Russian
Website
www.regionz.ru