January 24, 2020, Fee rates for negative environmental impact have been established for 2020 Resolution of January 24, 2020 No. 39
January 22, 2020 The Deputy Prime Minister introduced the heads of the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rosreestr to their teams.
January 21, 2020, Natural resource management. Subsoil use On granting the right to use a subsoil plot of federal significance, including the Khambateyskoye field, located on the territory of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and partly in the Ob Bay of the Kara Sea Order No. 22-r dated January 18, 2020. Based on the results of the auction, the right to use a subsoil plot of federal significance, including the Khambateyskoye field, located on the territory of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and partly in the Ob Bay of the Kara Sea, for geological study of the subsoil, exploration and production of hydrocarbons under a combined license was granted to Gazprom Neft PJSC .
December 30, 2019, Environmental safety. Waste management A decision was made to create and operate a federal state information system monitoring air quality in large industrial centers Resolution of December 24, 2019 No. 1806. Rules for the creation and operation of the federal state information system for monitoring atmospheric air quality in the cities of Bratsk, Krasnoyarsk, Lipetsk, Magnitogorsk, Mednogorsk, Nizhny Tagil, Novokuznetsk, Norilsk, Omsk, Chelyabinsk, Cherepovets and Chita, as well as a list of information included in it, were approved. This is necessary for managing air quality in large industrial centers, including planning, implementation and control of measures to reduce emissions of pollutants into the air from stationary and mobile sources.
December 30, 2019, Environmental safety. Waste management Requirements for compensation measures were approved as part of an experiment on quotas for emissions of pollutants into the air in large industrial centers Resolution of December 24, 2019 No. 1792. Requirements have been approved for compensation measures aimed at improving the quality of atmospheric air in the cities of Bratsk, Krasnoyarsk, Lipetsk, Magnitogorsk, Mednogorsk, Nizhny Tagil, Novokuznetsk, Norilsk, Omsk, Chelyabinsk, Cherepovets and Chita for emissions quotas based on consolidated calculations of atmospheric air pollution.
December 28, 2019, A decision was made to create the Kytalyk National Park in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Resolution of December 24, 2019 No. 1807. In the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Kytalyk National Park will be created with a total area of 1,885,554 hectares. The creation of the national park is aimed at preserving the reference tundra landscapes of the Yana-Indigirka lowland, the East Siberian population of the Siberian Crane, the Yana-Indigirka population of wild reindeer, as well as maintaining the traditional way of life of the indigenous peoples of the North and the development of eco-tourism.
December 27, 2019, Nature Conservation. Nature reserves, national parks A decision was made to create the Samursky National Park (Republic of Dagestan) Resolution of December 25, 2019 No. 1839. In the Republic of Dagestan, the Samursky National Park will be created with a total area of 48,273.15 hectares. Decision made will create legal grounds for ensuring a special protection regime natural complexes and objects included within the boundaries of the national park.
December 26, 2019, Environmental safety. Waste management A procedure has been established for the development, approval and adjustment of the federal scheme for the management of municipal solid waste Resolution of December 25, 2019 No. 1814. The draft document was developed as part of the implementation of the federal project “Integrated system for the management of municipal solid waste” of the national project “Ecology”.
December 24, 2019, Nature Conservation. Nature reserves, national parks A decision was made to create the Tokinsko-Stanovoi National Park (Amur Region) Resolution of December 20, 2019 No. 1735. In the Amur Region, the Tokinsko-Stanovoi National Park will be created with a total area of 252,893.65 hectares. The adopted decision will create legal grounds for ensuring a regime of special protection of natural complexes and objects included within the boundaries of the national park.
December 11, 2019, Nature Conservation. Nature reserves, national parks A decision was made to transform the Gydansky state nature reserve (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) into a national park Resolution of December 10, 2019 No. 1632. Within the boundaries of the Gydansky Nature Reserve live small indigenous peoples - the Gydan Nenets and Entsy. In order to ensure their traditional economic activity The reserve has been transformed into a national park, which includes a zone of traditional extensive nature management, within the boundaries of which fishing, hunting, berry and mushroom picking are allowed.
December 11, 2019, A decision was made to create the Koygorodsky National Park (Komi Republic) Resolution of December 7, 2019 No. 1607. On the territory of the Komi Republic, the Koygorodsky National Park will be created with a total area of 56,700.032 hectares. The adopted decision will create a legal basis for ensuring a regime of special protection of natural complexes and objects included within the boundaries of the national park, and will also contribute to the development of nature-oriented, educational and sports tourism.
December 11, 2019, Nature Conservation. Nature reserves, national parks The territory of the Land of the Leopard National Park in the Primorsky Territory has been expanded Resolution of December 3, 2019 No. 1578. The national park includes land plots with an area of 6928.28 hectares on the Gamow Peninsula, which are typical habitats of the Far Eastern leopard and are of great importance for the conservation of biological and landscape diversity of the southern part of Primorsky Krai.
December 9, 2019, National project “Ecology” The procedure for providing subsidies for the implementation of the federal project “Improvement of the Volga” has been approved Resolution of December 5, 2019 No. 1599. Rules for the provision and distribution of subsidies for the implementation of regional projects aimed at eliminating objects of accumulated environmental damage that pose a threat to the Volga River were approved.
December 9, 2019, National project “Ecology” A procedure has been established for the provision of interbudgetary transfers for the implementation of measures to reduce emissions of pollutants into the air in large industrial centers Resolution No. 1600 of December 5, 2019. As part of the federal project “Clean Air” of the national project “Ecology”, measures to reduce the level of air pollution will be carried out in Bratsk, Krasnoyarsk, Lipetsk, Magnitogorsk, Mednogorsk, Nizhny Tagil, Novokuznetsk, Norilsk, Omsk, Chelyabinsk, Cherepovets and Chita.
December 4, 2019, Nature Conservation. Nature reserves, national parks A decision was made to transform the state nature reserve “Stolby” (Krasnoyarsk Territory) into the national park “Krasnoyarsk Stolby” Resolution of November 28, 2019 No. 1527. The reserve is a place for recreation and sports for residents of Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory and other regions. Currently, the flow of tourists is about 700 thousand people a year, and part of the reserve is actually used as a national park. The adopted decision will create legal grounds for ensuring a regime of special protection of natural complexes and objects included within the boundaries of the national park.
December 3, 2019, Nature Conservation. Nature reserves, national parks The procedure for state supervision in the field of treatment of animals has been established Resolution of November 30, 2019 No. 1560. The rules for the organization and implementation of state supervision in the field of treatment of animals define the tasks and subject of state supervision, delimiting the issues within the competence of Rosprirodnadzor and Rosselkhoznadzor. The tasks of state supervision in this area include prevention, identification and suppression of violations of established requirements.
November 25, 2019, Environmental safety. Waste management The amount of ozone-depleting substances and the permissible volume of their production for 2020 have been established Order of November 21, 2019 No. 2764-r. The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources annually calculates the permissible volume of production of ozone-depleting substances in Russia and the amount of specific substances in the permissible volume of consumption of ozone-depleting substances. This is necessary in including to fulfill Russia's obligations under the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.
November 18, 2019, Nature Conservation. Nature reserves, national parks A decision was made to create the Zigalga National Park (Chelyabinsk Region) Resolution of November 18, 2019 No. 1465. A national park “Zigalga” with a total area of 45,661.6 hectares will be created on the territory of the Chelyabinsk region. The purpose of creating the national park is to preserve unique forest and tundra natural complexes in the mountains of the Southern Urals in the basins of the Yuryuzan and Kutkurka rivers, the watershed of which is the Zigalga mountain range, which have great environmental, scientific and recreational significance, and the preservation of habitats of rare species of plants, birds and animals , development of ecological tourism. The adopted decision will create legal grounds for ensuring a regime of special protection of natural complexes and objects included within the boundaries of the national park.
November 14, 2019 About the Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation Order of November 13, 2019 No. 2671-r
1Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation (Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia)– federal executive body exercising powers in the field of study, use, reproduction and protection of natural resources, hydrometeorology, conservation environment.
Mission and strategic goals
is to ensure rational and safe use of natural resources, excluding depletion of natural resources and irreversible deterioration of environmental quality necessary to preserve natural resource potential in the interests of future generations.
The strategic goals are formulated in the Ministry’s activity plan for a five-year period:
- creating conditions for the formation of a favorable environment;
- guaranteed provision of natural resources for sustainable socio-economic development of Russia;
- ensuring the protection of the population and vital objects from the effects of hazardous natural phenomena;
- ensuring international legal registration of external borders Russian Federation.
The first area of activity includes a set of measures for elimination, reforming the system for regulating emissions and discharges, creating a system for safe waste management, developing a system of specially protected natural areas(SPNA).
As part of the second direction, a set of works is being carried out to provide the economy with resources and reserves of the main types of minerals; increasing the efficiency of forestry development and protecting forests from fires; measures to provide the country's economy and population with quality water resources; development of the Russian fauna and improvement of regulations in the field of hunting.
The third direction includes ensuring hydrometeorological safety and protection of citizens and infrastructure from the negative effects of water, modernizing the environmental monitoring system and improving the regulatory framework in the field of hydrometeorology and environmental monitoring.
The fourth direction includes a complex of research work to substantiate the boundaries of the continental shelf in and in the Arctic Ocean (Arctic).
Authority
The Ministry exercises powers in the following key areas:
- legislative activity (preparation and submission to the Government of the Russian Federation of draft federal laws and regulations, independent adoption of regulations);
- analytical activities (summarizing the practice of applying the legislation of the Russian Federation, analyzing the implementation of state policy in the field of activity of the Ministry, organizing the preparation and distribution of the annual state report on the state and protection of the environment);
- accounting, maintenance, security and legislative regulation functioning of specially protected natural areas of federal significance;
- regulation of hunting: establishing the area of hunting grounds, agreeing on production limits for a number of game species;
- regulation of the activities of subordinate agencies and services, executive authorities Russian regions exercising powers in the field of water and forest relations, state environmental assessment, use, reproduction and protection of wildlife and their habitats, hunting;
- interaction with authorities state power foreign states and international organizations;
- control of individual entrepreneurs and legal entities carrying out activities in the field of waste management;
- interaction with small and medium-sized businesses, socially-oriented non-profit organizations, and the population;
- concluding government contracts and other civil agreements for the supply of goods, performance of work and provision of services for the needs of the Ministry, as well as for carrying out research and development work for government needs;
- powers related directly to the functioning of the Ministry (administrative, economic, financial, personnel issues), as well as to work with documents and archival data.
A detailed list of powers is presented in the “Regulations on the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation”.
Structure (as of 01/01/2015):
Departments:
Federal services and agencies:
138 subordinate specially protected natural areas.
Adviсe:
There are seven councils operating under the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources:
Historical background
there was no unified effective system for ensuring the protection and rational use of land and its subsoil, water resources, atmospheric air, flora and fauna. The excessive fragmentation of environmental functions across various ministries and departments led to the fact that government bodies called upon to monitor the state of the environment duplicated each other’s activities and worked extremely ineffectively. Gross miscalculations and mistakes were made in determining the main tasks in the field of nature conservation and the use of natural resources, which often led to deterioration of the environmental situation and unjustified losses of material and financial resources.
In order to correct the situation, in 1988 a decision was made to radically restructure nature conservation in the country. One of the main steps was the creation of ministries and committees of the USSR on the basis of the relevant divisions USSR State Committee for Nature Protection(Goskompriroda of the USSR), which was entrusted with the tasks of implementing integrated management of environmental activities in the country, developing and implementing a unified scientific and technical policy in the field of nature conservation and rational use of natural resources.
As part of the formation of a unified system of the USSR State Committee for Nature Protection, similar structures were created in all union republics. In March 1988, a central government body in the field of nature conservation and use of natural resources on the territory of the RSFSR was created - State Committee of the RSFSR for Nature Protection(Goskompriroda RSFSR).
In June 1990, the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the RSFSR was adopted, which affirmed the principle of separation of legislative, executive and judicial powers. The implementation of the principles of separation of powers required administrative reform, which resulted, among other things, in the transformation of the State Committee for Nature Protection of the RSFSR into State Committee of the RSFSR on Ecology and Nature Management.
In July 1991, as part of the implementation of measures to ensure state management of the national economy of the RSFSR during the transition to market economy, The State Committee was transformed into Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the RSFSR. But already in November 1991, in order to ensure the stability of the system of government authorities and management in the RSFSR during the period of radical economic reform, a large-scale transformation of the executive authorities of the RSFSR was carried out, during which, on the basis of the abolished Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the RSFSR, the Ministry of Forestry of the RSFSR, The State Committee of the RSFSR on Geology and Use of Subsoil and the Committee on Water Management under the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR was formed Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the RSFSR(then the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Russian Federation), which in September 1992 was reorganized into Ministry of Environment Protection and Natural Resources of the Russian Federation.
In 1993, in order to improve public management in the field of water management, improve water supply to the population and national economy, the ecological state of water bodies, the Committee on Water Resources was removed from the Ministry of Environment Protection and Natural Resources, on the basis of which the Committee of the Russian Federation on Water Management(Roskomvod).
However, separate management of the industry was recognized as ineffective, and in 1996, during the next formation of the structure of federal executive authorities on the basis of the abolished Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of the Russian Federation, the Russian Federation Committee on Water Resources and the Russian Federation Committee on Geology and Subsoil Use, created Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation And State Committee of the Russian Federation for Environmental Protection, whose functions were transferred to the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation in 2000.
The next transformation of the Ministry was carried out in 2004. As part of the administrative reform, the following organizations were formed: federal agencies and services to which part of the functions of the Ministry of Natural Resources was transferred.
In 2008, based on the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation, it was created Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation. The new ministry was also given the functions of developing and implementing state policy and legal regulation in the field of environmental protection.
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