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The draft resolution has been introduced by the Russian Ministry of Agriculture to implement Federal Law No. 250-FZ of December 3, 2008, On Introducing Amendments to the Federal Law On Fisheries and Conservation of Aquatic Biological Resources and Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation.
The statute stipulates measures applicable during land use planning, urban development zoning, land planning, architectural design, construction, reconstruction, major repairs of capital construction projects, applying new technological processes and carrying out other activities that have a direct or indirect influence on biological resources and their habitat, and the order of their implementation.
Measures for the conservation of biological resources and their habitat include:
-delimitating the boundaries of designated water and fishery protected zones, with restrictions on their use, in land use planning, urban development zoning documents and area planning documentation;
-evaluating the effects of planned activities on biological resources and their habitat;
-preventing and eliminating pollution in commercial fishing waters;
-installing effective fish protection structures;
-holding events to eliminate the negative impact on biological resources and their habitat through artificial reproduction, acclimatisation of biological resources or reclamation of waters for fisheries, and other measures.
The above measures shall be taken by federal state bodies, state bodies in Russian entities, local authorities, legal entities, private persons, including individual entrepreneurs in accordance with the law on urban development activities, the law on environmental protection, and the law on fisheries and the conservation of aquatic biological resources. The aim is to prevent and reduce the negative impact of activities on biological resources and their habitat, and to eliminate the negative impact on the state of biological resources and their habitat if prevention fails.