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The Decree of the President of the Russian Federation
of 05.17.2000 No. 867

ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE FEDERAL EXECUTIVE BODY
[Excerpts]

Clause 112 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the Federal Constitutional Law “On Government of the Russian Federation” have enacted:

1. The ratification of a closed structure of the federal executive body.

2. The abolition of:

• the State Committee on Agrarian Policy;
• the State Nature Conservation Committee;
• the Russian Federal Forest Service

3. The establishment of:

• the Federal Land Registry Service of Russia which will assume some of the functions of the abolished State Committee on Agrarian Policy.

4. The transfer of:

• the functions of the abolished State Nature Conservation Committee and the Russian Federal Forest Service to the Ministry of Natural Resources…

8. To the Government of Russian Federation:

• to redistribute the functions of the abolished federal executive agencies within one month;
• to ratify the regulations of the newly formed and transformed federal executive agencies within two months;
• to ratify the staff ceiling and the wages fund of federal executive agencies in Moscow within the limits provided for in the federal law “On the Federal Budget for the Year 2000” within one month;
• to ratify the staff ceiling and the wages fund of federal executive agencies outside Moscow within the limits provided for in the federal law “On the Federal Budget for the Year 2000” within three months;
• to ensure the granting of benefits and compensation to discharged employees in accordance with Russian law;
• to provide suggestions on the various changes to the acts of the Russian President within one month;
• to conform to the present decree.

9. To the Main State Legal Management of the Russian President: to provide suggestions on adopting the acts of the Russian President to the present decree within two months.

10. The present decree will take effect from the date of its official publication.

The President of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Putin

The Decree of the President of the Russian Federation
of 05.18.2000 No. 913

1. Under clause 83 item “d” of the Constitution of the Russian Federation to appoint Boris Aleksandrovich Yatskevich Minister of Natural Resources.

2. The present decree will take effect from the date of signing.

The President of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Putin

The Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation
of 07.06.2000 No. 495

In pursuance of the decree of the Russian President of 05.17.2000 No. 867 “On the Structure of the Federal Executive Body” (Collection of the Legislation of the Russian Federation, 2000, No. 21, item 2168), it has been enacted:

1. That the Ministry of Natural Resources is the federal executive agency in charge of implementing state policy and managing the research, exploitation, reproduction, and protection of the natural resources; environmental protection and environmental security; and coordinating the related activities of other federal executive agencies.

2. That the functions of the abolished State Nature Conservation Committee and the Russian Federal Forest Service be assigned to the Ministry of Natural Resources.

3. That the organizations in charge of the abolished State Nature Conservation Committee and the Russian Federal Forest Service be transferred to the Ministry of Natural Resources as of April 1, 2000.

4. That the local branches of the abolished State Nature Conservation Committee and the Russian Federal Forest Service be transferred to the Ministry of Natural Resources as of April 1, 2000.

5. That the staff ceiling of 811 people (excluding buildings security and service staff) and the wages fund of 9,269.7 thousand roubles per quarter be ratified for Moscow employees of the Ministry of Natural Resources.

6. That the staff ceiling of 9,930 people (excluding buildings security and service staff) and the wages fund of 103,151.4 thousand roubles per quarter be ratified for regional employment of the Ministry of Natural Resources.

7. That the Ministry of Natural Resources be allowed to have 11 Deputy Ministers, including 4 Vice-Ministers, a Board of 24 persons and (alongside other subdivisions in the Ministry) 11 departments dealing with the main issues of the Ministry, including but not limited to issues of geological research management; exploitation and protection of mineral resources; exploitation and protection of the water resources; exploitation and protection of forests and forest reproduction; environmental protection; state monitoring of exploitation and environmental security.

8. That the Ministry of Property Relations locate the Ministry of Natural Resources in the following buildings in Moscow: Bolshaya Gruzinskaya ul., 4/6, buildings A and B; Pyatnitskaya ul., 59/19, 61; ul. Kedrova, 8, building 1; 3-rd Monetchikovsky per., 4/6; 5-th Monetchikovsky per., 4.

9. That the following be considered null and void:

• the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of 12.25.92 No. 1010 “Issues of the Russian Federal Forest Service” (Collection of the Legislation of the Russian Federation, 1996, ¹ 44, item 5019);
• the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of 01.13.99 No. 49 “Issues of the State Nature Conservation Committee of the Russian Federation” (Collection of the Legislation of the Russian Federation, 1999, No. 3, item 350).

The Head of the Government
of the Russian Federation
Mikhail Kasyanov

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