Regional Law No. 416 on environmental protection. Pays/Territoire Fédération de Russie Sous-division territoriale Tuva Type du document Législation Date 1993 (1995) Source FAO, FAOLEX Sujet Environnement gén. Mot clé Aire protégée Préservation de l'écosystème Éco-audit Risques Expropriation Accès-à-l'information Planification environnementale Politique/planification 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 The Regional Law enters into force from the date of its official publication. Résumé 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). Texte intégral Russe