THE REGULATIONS ON THE MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
approved by Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation # 370, dated July 22, 2004

Extract

General

1. The Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation (MNR of Russia) is a federal executive body performing the functions related to state policy formulation and normative and legal regulation in the sphere of the study, renewal, and conservation of natural resources, including management of the State subsoil stock and forestry; the use and conservation of the inventory of water resources; the use, conservation, and protection of the stock of wooded forests and reproduction; operation and safety of multipurpose reservoirs and water-resources systems, protecting and other hydraulic structures (except navigation hydraulic facilities); the use of wildlife resources and their habitat (except wildlife resources assigned to hunting resources); specially protected natural areas, as well as in the sphere of environmental conservation (except the sphere of ecological supervision).

2. The Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation exercises coordination and control of the activity of the Federal Nature Management Supervision Service, the Federal Subsoil Use Agency, the Federal Forestry Agency, and the Federal Water Resources Agency being under its authority.

3.  The Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation is guided in its activity by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, federal constitutional laws, federal laws, acts of the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation, international agreements of the Russian Federation, as well as by the current Regulations.

4.  The Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation carries out its activity in concert with other federal executive bodies, executive bodies of the subjects of the Russian Federation, and institutions of local governing, as well as with public associations and other organizations.