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Recovery and protection of water resources, equipment and services for the rational use, purification of sewage waters, water bottling–these and other matters for the water sector development will be reviewed at the International ForumECWATECH-2016. The event will be held at the new exhibition pavilion No. 75 located on the premises of the All-Union Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (VDNKh)in Moscow on April 26-28, 2016.The Forum is organized by “ECWATECH

In compliance with the document, an application containing general information on the facility and its impact on the environment form the basis for the registration of such a facility along with the information on availability of authorization documents and on the nature protection measures implemented at the facility. Considering completeness of the information submitted by entrepreneurs in the approved form, by order of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, a series of acts that also envisagedsubmission by legal entities and sole entrepreneurs

The drafts of all the final documents of the Conference elaborated with support of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation and the Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring Agency were approved of following the results of the special preparatory session of the Environment Policy Committeeunder the UN ECE held in Geneva.The Conference will be held on June 8-10, 2016 in Batumi (Georgia). It is the main nature protection pan-European high-class event.

In particular, the draft Ministerial

All who are not indifferent to the ecology-related matters are invited to participate in the All-Russian contest “Green technologies through the eyes of the youth”. In order to take part, it is necessary to send author’s articles before May 15, 2016 using photomaterials, video or slide films on production by virtue of green technologies, in-house methods of ecological monitoring, as well as interviews with officials of industrial companies. Students of various ages from secondary schools and vocational schools to higher educational establishments can participate in the

A scheduled municipal ecological campaign “Green street” on waste paper collection will be held on February 27th in Naberezhnye Chelny under the slogan “Bring waste paper – save a tree”. The event starts at 11.30 am at the 18th complex between house 18/07 and specialized schoolNo. 26.A container for separate collection of recyclable

Public opinion on the state of corruption at the Ministry is still monitored at the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. One can complete the survey in the “Anti-corruption activity” section – “Public-opinion poll, survey” at http://eco.tatarstan.ru/rus/opros-obshchestvennogo-mneniya-anketirovanie.htm

The remuneration paid to the citizens who have submitted the information on the violations of the nature protection legislation on the territory of the Republic of Tatarstan has been increased. Earlier, the citizen who provided photo or video information on the offender received one thousand rubles, and starting 2016 this sum has been increased to 1.5 thousand rubles. Moreover, the list of violations has also been expanded. Besides illegal placement of waste and illegal extraction of mineral resources, people can now also report on the restricted access to the public water facility or its coastline, on the violation of the mode of economic or other activity of the water protection area of the water facility and land damage (destruction of the fertile layer

The hot line number, the e-mail, the State Information System “People’s control”, the mobile application “School eco-patrol” are all accessible for the citizens to report on the nature protection violations. All the information received from the citizens is referred to the Republican Public Ecological Reception Office. The information on illegal extraction of common mineral resources, unauthorized landfills, restriction of the access to the water 

Sustainable development of the field and economic risks of geological prospecting and exploration, state support of investments into geological prospecting and exploration, exploration of the Arctic Shelf and hard-to-recover reserves in the context of sanctions – these and other topics will be the most burning issues to discuss

A meeting was held at the South-Eastern Territorial Department under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan with participation of Deputy Minister – Chief State Inspector of the Republic of Tatarstan for Nature Protection, Fayaz Shakirov “On the results of the activity in 2015 and the tasks for 2016”.   In 2015, in the course of fulfillment of the functions pertaining to assurance of the state ecological surveillance, the South-Eastern Territorial Department conducted 663 inspections. In the course of the carried out inspections they revealed 959 violations, whereof 844 have been taken care of. With regard to the revealed violations