The meeting of the Committee of the State Council for Ecology, Use of natural resources and agricultural matters was held

The meeting of the Committee of the State Council for Ecology, use of natural resources and agricultural matters was held on March12 at the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan.The First Deputy Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustem Kamalov, presented a report on fulfillment of legislative regulations in the field of soil protection and rational use of land resources by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources. Joint work with the Administration of the Federal Service of Russia for Hydrometeorology and Monitoring of the Environment (Roshydromet) was acknowledged in the field of monitoring of the state and pollution of the environment. The Ministry of Ecology controls soil pollution in compliance with the approved schedule for environment state control.At present, the monitoring is carried out by eight specialized inspections of analytical control under the Ministry at 37 monitoring points, including specially protected natural areas with obtainment of baseline values of pollutants to evaluate ecological state of the territory and their use in the course of state environmental control over economic activity of the users of natural resources.
The Ministry elaborated suggestions on expansion of monitoring points for further joint functioning of the systems ofthe Territorial Administration for Hydrometeorological and Environmental Monitoring of the Republic of Tatarstan and Administration ofthe Federal Service on Customers' Rights Protection and Human Well-being Surveillance for the Republic of Tatarstan.
To coordinate the work of the authorities responsible for state supervision over the activity of users of natural resources, the Ministry of Ecology developed a Unified Map of the Republic of Tatarstan in 2011.
In the course of work,in 2013the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan reviewed 2,734 addresses of citizens and legal bodies with regard to fulfillment of ecological requirements when choosing land plots to locate construction facilities on the land owned by the state or municipal authorities.
The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan activated its work on revelation and preclusion of violations in the field ofsubsurface resources management.The regulations for estimation of damage inflicted on subsurface resources, adopted in July 2013 by the Order of the Government of the Russian Federation, allowed to toughen the measures applied to offenders.
In order to ensure ecological safety, soil protection and rational use of lands, the suggestions on making amendments to the Federal legislation were made.



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