CONCERNING THE INTERACTION OF REGIONAL AUTHORITIES UNDER
THE RUSSIAN MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES WITH STATE NATURE RESERVES AND
NATIONAL PARKS
The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) announces the following
system for interaction between its regional authorities and those state
nature reserves and national parks under the MNR.
MNR regional departments participate in the management of subordinate state
nature reserves and national parks as follows:
they exercise control over conservation activities of state nature reserves
and national parks, observation of territorial regime and the state of
natural complexes and monuments;
they examine and coordinate plans for forestry activities of state nature
reserves and national parks concerning the volumes of timber cutting and
reforestation;
they delegate representatives to nature reserve and national park technical-scientific
boards as needed;
they include directors of nature reserves and national parks in the
work of regional collegial boards;
they involve nature reserves and national parks in:
regional protected natural areas network planning as well as providing
regime control over these areas;
collaborative work to conserve biodiversity, in particular terrene
fauna and sea bio-resources in areas adjacent to nature reserves and
national parks;
preparation of annual reports on the state of the environment in the
corresponding entities;
coordination of land and mountain plots assignment within nature reserves
and national park buffer zones, including the lands of other stakeholders
not excluded from economic use;
they involve specialists from nature reserves and national parks in
the work of State Ecological Inspection expert commissions, primarily
the inspection of sites which may damage nature reserves and national
park complexes;
they review the results of the research and ecological monitoring from
nature reserves and national parks, including the Nature Chronicles Program;
they solve problems to do with extending the borders of nature reserves
and national parks and the creation of their protected zones;
they assist nature reserves and national parks in obtaining funding
from regional budgets as well as from non-budgetary sources.
State nature reserves and national parks collaborate with regional MNR
bodies on issues of natural heritage, biodiversity conservation and landscape
variety. Their main responsibilities are:
to provide MNR regional departments with:
the results of research and ecological monitoring held in nature reserves
and national parks;
information about the status of protected natural complexes/monuments
and the results of efforts to protect them;
materials needed to prepare annual reports on the state of the environment
in the corresponding entities;
other records for the MNR;
they make proposals to regional bodies on how best to use nature reserve
and national park protection services to ensure biodiversity conservation
in adjacent areas;
they make proposals to regional bodies concerning the organization of
protected natural areas (PNAs) of regional value as well as how to use
the potential of nature reserve/national park conservation to ensure protection
and control in regional PNAs;
they make suggestions on co-active participation in conservation and
ecological education of the population;
they include representatives of other regional authorities in technical-scientific
Boards of nature reserves/national parks for conservation and protection.
First Vice Minister A. F. Poryadin
MNR Decree
#118 of February 5, 2001
ON MNR OFFICERS CONDUCTING STATE ECLOLOGICAL INSPECTIONS
In accordance with the Statement On the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources
(MNR), formally endorsed by the governmental Statement #726 of September 25,
2000, and until the governmental Statements #718 of July 17, 1996 and # 1344
of October 22, 1997 are amended, I order the following:
1. In the MNR the state ecological inspection, as per Article 70
of the Federal Act “On Environment Protection”, is executed by:
First Vice-Minister, Head of the State Nature Conservation Service;
Vice-Minister in charge of state control;
Head of the Department for Nature Conservation and Ecological Safety;
Head of the State Control Department;
Deputy Heads of the Department for Natural Conservation and Ecological
Safety;
Deputy Heads of the State Control Department;
Heads of the divisions, their deputies, senior, leading and other
specialists of the Department for Natural Conservation and Ecological
Safety;
Heads of the divisions, their deputies, senior, leading and other
specialists of the State Control Department;
Heads of specialized marine inspections, their deputies and other
inspectors of these services;
Heads of regional natural resource departments;
Deputy heads of regional natural resources departments, their deputies
and senior, leading and other specialists responsible for nature protection,
biodiversity conservation, and state control;
Heads of regional natural resources committees;
Deputy heads of regional natural resources committees responsible
for nature protection, biodiversity conservation and state control;
Special state protection inspectors of nature reserves and national
parks and their deputies, senior and area state inspectors of nature reserves
and national parks.
2. Control over the enforcement of the present decree is imposed
on the First Vice-Minister A. F. Poryadin and the Vice-Minister A. Y. Hvostov.
