Regional Law No. 191/2014-OZ “On improvement of natural environment”. Country/Territory Russian Federation Territorial subdivision Moscow Document type Legislation Date 2014 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Environment gen., Forestry, Land & soil Keyword Public land Right to clean/healthy environment Local government Public participation Land-use planning Urban land Human rights Recreational forest Private land 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 1 January 2015. Abstract This Regional Law shall have as its purpose ensuring the right of citizens to favorable environment, including landscape and shade gardening, planting of recreational urban forests, thus ensuring favorable conditions for vital activity of citizens, and delimits plenary powers between city state bodies, local government and municipal units in the sphere of improvement of natural environment. Objects of improvement of natural environment shall be: (a) urban land; (b) private land; (c) public and municipal land; and (d) public land with undelimited public ownership. Improvement of natural environment shall be intended a series of arrangements related to land-use planning within urban areas in accordance with land-use planning scheme. Validation of land-use planning scheme shall be subject to public participation in the form of public hearing on the matter. Full text Russian Website mosoblduma.ru References - Legislation Amended by Regional Law No. 113/2016-OZ amending Regional Law No. 191/2014-OZ “On improvement of natural environment”. Legislation | Russian Federation | 2016 Keyword: Waste management, Waste domestic sources, Waste non-domestic sources, Waste disposal, Local government, Forest management/forest conservation, Public forest, Recreational forest Source: FAO, FAOLEX