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Retaliatory actions


Countermeasures — reasonable (appropriate, practically feasible, proportional) actions that should be taken or carried out after the occurrence of an extraordinary environmental situation in order to prevent, minimize, or limit the scale of impact of this extraordinary environmental situation and which, for this purpose, may include cleaning up the Antarctic territory under appropriate circumstances, as well as determining the scope of this extraordinary environmental situation and its impact1.

  1. Federal Law No. 50-FZ of June 5, 2012 "On the Regulation of Activities of Russian Citizens and Russian Legal Entities in Antarctica," as amended on March 18, 2019, Article 1, paragraph 11 // Official Gazette of the Russian Federation. 2012. No. 24. Article 3067. ↩

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