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This paragraph addresses the system and structure of federal executive authorities of the Russian Federation, their classification into ministries, services, and agencies, as well as the functions, competence, and powers of the relevant bodies. Special attention is given to the analysis of individual state authorities, their areas of jurisdiction, and their role in the system of state administration.
The paragraph also thoroughly examines the functions of ministries, services, and agencies responsible for managing environmental use and protection of the environment. Issues related to the distribution of powers among departments and their participation in activities in the field of environmental protection and natural resource management are considered.
Competent authorities in the field of environmental protection and natural resource management play a key role in regulating and overseeing the rational use of natural resources. Federal executive bodies, including ministries, services, and agencies, are responsible for developing state policy, normative legal regulation, and supervision in various areas of natural resource management and ecological safety.
By the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation "On the System and Structure of Federal Executive Bodies"1, it is established that the system of federal executive bodies includes federal ministries, federal services and federal agencies. According to this Decree, ministry – is a federal executive body performing functions relating to the development of state policy and normative legal regulation in the area of activity defined by acts of the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation. Agency – is a federal executive body performing, in the established area of activity, functions related to the provision of state services, and management of state affairs. Service – is a federal executive body performing functions relating to control and supervision in the established area of activity. Next, we will examine specific organs with special competence responsible for managing environmental protection and natural resource utilization.
The Federal Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation (Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Russia) performs functions related to developing state policy and normative legal regulation in the field of studying, using, reproducing, and protecting natural resources, including mineral deposits, water objects, forests located on specially protected natural territories, wildlife objects and their habitat environment, in the area of hunting, in the sphere of hydrology and meteorology and adjacent areas, monitoring of the surrounding natural environment, its pollution, including in the field of radiation control and monitoring regulation, as well as developing and implementing state policy and normative legal regulation in the field of environmental protection, including issues related to waste management (hereinafter - waste), specially protected natural territories and state ecological expertise2. The Government of the Russian Federation oversees the activities of the Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (Rosprirodnadzor)3.
The Federal Agency for Water Resources (Rosvodresurсы), the Federal Forestry Agency (Roslеsхоz), the Federal Agency for Mineral Resources (Rosnedra), the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Rosgidromet), and the Federal Service for Supervision in the Field of Use of Natural Resources (Rosprirodnadzor) are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation4.
Federal Agency for Water Resources (Rosvodresurсы) performs functions related to the provision of state services and management of federal property in the field of water resources5.
The Federal Forestry Agency (Rosleskhod), performs the following functions: development and implementation of state policy and normative legal regulation in the field of forestry (excluding forests located on specially protected natural territories); control and supervision in the field of forestry (excluding forests located on specially protected natural territories); provision of state services and management of state property in the field of forestry6.
The Federal Agency for Subsoil Use (Rospriroda) performs functions related to the provision of state services and management of state property in the field of subsoil use7.
The Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet) performs functions related to the management of state property and the provision of state services in the field of hydrometeorology and adjacent areas, environmental monitoring, its pollution, and state supervision over activities involving active influence on meteorological and other geophysical processes8.
The Federal Service for Environmental Supervision (Rosprirodnadzor) performs functions related to control and supervision in the field of environmental use, as well as within its competence in the area of environmental protection, including in relation to limiting negative anthropogenic impact, waste management (excluding radioactive waste), and state ecological expertise. It is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Russia9.
Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation (Ministry of Agriculture of Russia) performs functions: in developing state policy and normative legal regulation in the field of the agro-industrial complex, including livestock farming (including breeding of domesticated species and breeds of fish included in the State Register of protected breeding achievements), veterinary services, crop production, plant quarantine, land reclamation, soil fertility, regulation of the market for agricultural products, raw materials and food, food and processing industries, production and circulation of tobacco products, sustainable development of rural areas; in developing and implementing state policy and normative legal regulation in the field of land relations (in part relating to agricultural lands), in state monitoring of such lands; in providing state services in the field of the agro-industrial complex, including sustainable development of rural areas; in managing state property under its jurisdiction; in enterprises and institutions10. The activities of the Federal Agency for Agriculture of Russia are carried out under the guidance of the Government of the Russian Federation11.
The Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision (Rosselkhoznadzor) and the Federal Agency for Fisheries (Rosrybolovstvo) are under the jurisdiction of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture.
The Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision (Rosselkhoznadzor) performs functions related to control and supervision in the field of veterinary services, quarantine, plant protection, safe handling of pesticides and agrochemicals, ensuring soil fertility, ensuring the quality and safety of grain, flour, compound feeds and components for their production, by-products of grain processing, land relations (in part relating to agricultural lands), as well as functions related to protecting the population from diseases common to humans and animals12.
Federal Agency for Fisheries (Rosrybvykhod) performs the following functions: development and implementation of state policy and normative legal regulation in the field of fisheries, including fishing, aquaculture, commercial fish farming, conservation of aquatic biological resources, production and sale of fish and other products derived from aquatic biological resources, operational activities on vessels of the fishing fleet, as well as in the areas of protection, rational use, study, and reproduction of aquatic biological resources and their habitats, excluding aquatic biological resources located within specially protected natural territories of federal significance and those listed in the Red Book of the Russian Federation, ensuring maritime safety of fishing fleet vessels and emergency rescue operations in fishing areas; control and supervision over aquatic biological resources and their habitats in the internal waters of the Russian Federation, excluding internal of the Russian Federation, as well as the Caspian and Azov Seas until their legal status is determined, ensuring the safety of navigation for fishing fleet vessels and emergency rescue operations in fishing areas during fishing activities; regarding the provision of state services, management of state property in the field of fisheries, protection, rational use, study, conservation, reproduction of aquatic biological resources and their habitat, as well as aquaculture (aquaculture), commercial fish farming, production of fish and other products from aquatic biological resources, ensuring the safety of navigation for fishing fleet vessels and emergency rescue operations in fishing areas during fishing activities, as well as in the field of industrial activities on fishing fleet vessels and in seaports insofar as it relates to servicing fishing fleet vessels13.
Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Atomic Supervision (Rostekhnadzor), performs functions relating to the development and implementation of state policy and normative legal regulation in the established field of activity, as well as in the field of technological and atomic supervision, functions relating to control and supervision in the field of safe conduct of works related to the use of mineral resources, industrial safety, safety in the use of nuclear energy (excluding activities related to the development, manufacture, testing, operation and disposal of nuclear weapons and military nuclear power installations), safety of electrical and thermal facilities and networks (excluding household facilities and networks), safety of hydraulic structures (excluding navigable hydraulic structures, as well as hydraulic structures, the authority to carry out supervision over which has been transferred to local self-government bodies), safety in the production, storage and use of industrial explosives, as well as special functions in the field of state security in the specified area. The Government of the Russian Federation oversees the activities of Rostekhnadzor14.
The Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation (Ministry of Economic Development of Russia) is a federal executive body responsible for developing state policy and normative legal regulation in the areas of land relations (excluding agricultural lands), the state cadastral register of real estate, state cadastral registration and cadastral activities, state cadastral valuation, state monitoring of land (excluding agricultural lands), state registration of rights to real property, geodesy, and cartography. The activities of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia are managed by the Government of the Russian Federation15.
The Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography (Rosreestr) and the Federal Agency for Management of State Property (Rospotrebnadzor) are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation16.
Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography (Rosreestr) performs functions related to the state registration of rights to real estate and transactions therewith, provision of state services in the field of maintaining the state cadastre of real estate, state cadastral accounting of real property, cadastral activities, state cadastral valuation, land surveying, state monitoring of lands, geodesy and cartography, navigation support for the transport complex (excluding issues related to aeronautical servicing of users of the airspace of the Russian Federation), as well as functions relating to the implementation of state geodetic supervision, state land control, supervision over the activities of self-regulating organizations of appraisers, control (supervision) over the activities of arbitration managers and self-regulating organizations of arbitration managers, and state metrological supervision in the field of geodetic and cartographic activities17.
The Federal Agency for State Property Management (Rosimущество) performs functions related to the management of federal property, functions related to organizing the sale of federal property subject to privatization, realization of property seized in enforcement of court decisions or acts of bodies authorized to take decisions on enforcement against property, functions related to the realization of confiscated, ownerless movable property, seized property and other property transferred into state ownership in accordance with Russian Federation legislation, as well as functions related to providing state services and law enforcement functions in the area of property and land relations18.
Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB Russia) is a federal executive body, within its authority carrying out state management in the areas: protection of internal waters; territorial sea of the Russian Federation; exclusive economic zone of the Russian Federation; continental shelf of the Russian Federation and their natural resources19. The activities of the FSB Russia are directed by the President of the Russian Federation20.
The Federal Service for Supervision in the Area of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor) performs functions related to control and supervision in the area of ensuring sanitary and epidemiological wellbeing of the population, consumer rights protection, and the consumer market21. The activities of Rospotrebnadzor are managed by the Government of the Russian Federation22.
The Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of the Consequences of Natural Disasters (Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia) performs functions related to the development and implementation of state policy, normative legal regulation, as well as supervision and control in the field of civil defence, protection of population and territories from natural and man-made emergencies, ensuring fire safety and safety of people on water objects23. The President of the Russian Federation oversees the activities of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia24.
Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology
(Rostekhregulirovanie) performs functions related to the provision of state services, management of state property in the field of technical regulation and ensuring measurement uniformity25. Rostekhregulirovanie is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation (Minpromtorg Russia)26.
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2004. No. 31. Art. 3262.
2008. No. 24. Art. 2867; Order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 08.09.2010 No. 693 "On Certain Powers of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation" // RSZ RF. 2010. No. 37. Art. 4706.
2008. No. 24. Art. 2867.
23. Art. 2721.
2754.
2004. No. 28. Art. 2899.
2754.
2754.
2575.
Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated 09.03.2004 No. 314 "On the System and Structure of Federal Executive Bodies" // RSZ RF. 2004. No. 11. Art. 945. ↩
Government Decree of the Russian Federation dated 29.05.2008 No. 404 "On the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation" // RSZ RF. 2008. No. 22. Art. 2581. ↩
Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated 21.05.2012 No. 636 "On the structure of federal executive bodies" // RSZ RF. 2012. No. 22. Article 2754. ↩
Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated 21.05.2012 No. 636 "On the structure of federal executive bodies" // RSZ RF. 2012. No. 22. Article 2754; Government Decree of the Russian Federation dated 29.05.2008 No. 404 "On the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation" // RSZ RF. 2008. No. 22. Article 2581. ↩
Government Decree of the Russian Federation dated 16.06.2004 No. 282 "On Approval of the Regulation on the Federal Agency for Water Resources" // RSZ RF. ↩
Government Decree of the Russian Federation dated 23.09.2010 No. 736 "On the Federal Agency for Forestry" // RSZ RF. 2010. No. 40. Art. 5068. ↩
Government Decree of the Russian Federation dated 17.06.2004 No. 293 "On Approval of the Charter of the Federal Agency for Mineral Resources" // RSZ RF. 2004. No. 26. Art. 2669; Government Decree of the Russian Federation dated 06.04.2004 No. 171 "Issues of the Federal Agency for Mineral Resources" // RSZ RF. 2004. No. 15. Art. ↩
Government Decree of the Russian Federation dated 23.07.2004 No. 372 "On the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring" // RSZ RF. ↩
Order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 30.07.2004 No. 400 "On Approval of the Regulation on the Federal Service for Supervision in the Field of Use of Natural Resources and on Amendments to Order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 22.07.2004 No. 370" // Collection of Laws of the Russian Federation. 2004. No. 32. Art. 3347. ↩
Order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 12.06.2008 No. 450 "On the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation" // Collection of Laws of the Russian Federation. 2008. No. 25. Art. 2983. ↩
Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated 21.05.2012 No. 636 "On the Structure of Federal Executive Bodies" // Collection of Laws of the Russian Federation. 2012. No. 22. Art. 2754. ↩
Government Decree of the Russian Federation dated 30.06.2004 No. 327 "On Approval of the Regulation on the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance"; Presidential Decree of the Russian Federation dated 21.05.2012 No. 636 "On the Structure of Federal Executive Bodies" // RSZ RF. 2012. No. 22. Art. 2754. ↩
Government Decree of the Russian Federation dated 11.06.2008 No. 444 "On the Federal Fishery Agency" // RSZ RF. 2008. No. 25. Art. 2979; Presidential Decree of the Russian Federation dated 21.05.2012 No. 636 "On the Structure of Federal Executive Bodies" // RSZ RF. 2012. No. 22. Art. 2754. ↩
Government Decree of the Russian Federation dated 30.07.2004 No. 401 "On the Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Atomic Supervision" // RSZ RF. 2004. No. 32. Art. 3348. ↩
Order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 05.06.2008 No. 437 "On the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation" // RSZ RF. ↩
Order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 05.06.2008 No. 437 "On the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation" // RSZ RF. ↩
Order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 01.06.2009 No. 457 "On the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography" // RSZ RF. 2009. No. 25. Art. 3052. ↩
Order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 05.06.2008 No. 432 "On the Federal Agency for State Property Management" // RSZ RF. 2008. No. ↩
Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated 11.08.2003 No. 960 "On Issues of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation" // RSZ RF. 2003. No. 33. Art. 3254. ↩
Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated 21.05.2012 No. 636 "On the structure of federal executive bodies" // RSZ RF. 2012. No. 22. Art. ↩
Order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 30.06.2004 No. 322 "On approval of the Regulation on the Federal Service for Supervision in the Field of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-being" // RSZ RF. ↩
Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated 21.05.2012 No. 636 "On the structure of federal executive bodies" // RSZ RF. 2012. No. 22. Art. ↩
Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated 11.07.2004 No. 868 "On issues of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergency Situations and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters" // RSZ RF. 2004. No. 28. Art. 2882. ↩
Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated 21.05.2012 No. 636 "On the structure of federal executive bodies" // RSZ RF. 2012. No. 22. Art. ↩
Government Decree of the Russian Federation dated 17.06.2004 No. 294 "On the Federal Agency for Standardization and Metrology" // RSZ RF. 2004. No. 25. Art. ↩
Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated 21.05.2012 No. 636 "On the structure of federal executive bodies" // RSZ RF. 2012. No. 22. Article 2754. ↩
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