Regional Law No. 104-Z No. 211-III “On environmental protection”. Pays/Territoire Fédération de Russie Sous-division territoriale Sakha (Yakutia) Type du document Législation Date 2003 (2009) Source FAO, FAOLEX Sujet Environnement gén. Mot clé Collectivité locale Infractions/sanctions Responsabilité/indemnisation Développement durable Aire géographique Arctique, Asie et Pacifique, Mer Noire, Mer Caspienne, CEI (Communauté des États indépendants), Europe de l'Est, Europe, Europe et Asie Centrale, Pacifique Nord, Pacifique Nord Occidental Entry into force notes This Regional Law enters into force on the date of its official publication. Résumé 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. Texte intégral Russe Site web www.regionz.ru