Reference
Resolution of the Ministry of Natural Resources, prepared in accordance with the Federal Law On Introducing Amendments to the Federal Law On Environmental Protection and to Individual Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation.
The Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet) currently monitors the environment and environmental pollution in accordance with Regulations on the State Environmental Monitoring Service approved by Resolution No. 622 of August 23, 2000, issued by the Government of the Russian Federation.
The document sets out the procedure for state monitoring of the environment and environmental pollution, as well as the procedure for the formation of a state system of environmental monitoring and the functioning of such a system.
The Resolution also defines the sites for state monitoring of the environment and environmental pollution. The document contains provisions on the submission of data on the environment and environmental pollution to the state foundation for environmental monitoring.
Roshydromet is the authorised federal executive body for state monitoring of the environment and environmental pollution, which exercises its powers in collaboration with other federal executive authorities concerned, organisations and bodies of executive authority in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.