Law on air protection.

The purpose of this Law is to preserve and improve air quality and prevent and decrease chemical, physical, biological and other impacts on air that cause harm to the population, national economy and flora and fauna of the country. The competence of the state in the sphere of air protection shall be: (a) establish the rule of air protection and the elaboration and approval of plans on how to do so; and (b) implement state control over the air protection. Assignments for free air protection and prevention of free air pollution and harmful effect on it as well as the measures for improvement of the state of free air are stipulated by the state plans of economic and social development. For approval of free air state the norms of maximum allowable limits of concentration of pollutants and the norms of harmful impact rates are established for the assessment of free air state. These norms shall meet the interests of human health and environmental protection. The authorized state service of monitoring and controlling the environmental pollution rate shall provide the relevant state and public bodies, enterprises, institutions and organizations with systematic information and forecasts on the rate of atmospheric pollution by economic activity and the effects of meteorological conditions.