Regional Law No. 416 on environmental protection. Country/Territory Russian Federation Territorial subdivision Tuva Document type Legislation Date 1993 (1995) Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Environment gen. Keyword Protected area Ecosystem preservation Environmental audit Hazards Expropriation Access-to-information Environmental planning Policy/planning 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 The Regional Law enters into force from the date of its official publication. Abstract The purpose of the present Regional Law is to regulate the issues of ownership, utilization and disposal of land, subsoil, water and natural resources aiming at environmental protection, prevention of hazardous environmental impact caused by economic and other activities and provision of the regional population with favourable environment. Ecosystems, components thereof, ozone layer and biological diversity are subject to protection against pollution, damage, harm, exhaustion and annihilation while state protected areas, national parks, nature monuments and objects of cultural heritage are posted under special protection (art. 2). Citizens have the right to favourable environment, ecological education, access to reliable ecological information (art. 9). Economic mechanism of nature management has as its purpose environmental planning, rate setting as regards nature management, waste disposal and discharge of pollutants into environment and fixing environmental fees (art. 12). State ecological audit shall be compulsory (art. 14). Areas of ecological disaster shall be proclaimed areas where sustainable and deep negative environmental changes are in course menacing human health, natural ecosystems and genetic fund of plants and wildlife species (art. 18). Expropriation of land pertaining to protected areas is prohibited (art. 20). Full text Russian