Law on Nature Protection
(Outline, informal translation)
Articles:
I General
1. Tasks of legislation for nature protection
2. Definitions used
3. Legislation related to nature protection
4. The main principles of nature protection
5. Objects of environmental protection
6. State ecological programme
7. Competence of Government in environmental protection
8. Competence of specially designated institutions in environmental protection
9. Competence of madzlisov people deputates in the regulation of cooperation in
environmental protection
II Rights of citizens to live in health environment
10. Rights of citizens to live in health environment.
11. Rights of citizens to protect their health from adverse environmental effects
12. Rights of citizens to obtain environmental information
13. Rights of citizens to participate in decision making process and control their
implementation.
III Economic instruments of environmental protection
14. Tasks of economic instruments
15. Calculation and social economic evaluation of natural resources
16. Financing the measure related to environmental protection
17. Limits for the use of nature
18. Payment for the use of natural resources
19. Environmental funds
20. Insurance funds for environmental protection
21. Insurance of citizens against adverse environmental effects
IV Norms of environmental quality
22. Main requirements for norms of environmental quality
23. Norms for maximum allowable concentration
24. Norms for maximum allowable discharges and hazardous substances
25. Norms for maximum allowable level of noise, magnetic condition and other
harmful physical effects
26. Norms for maximum allowable level of radiation
27. Norms for the use of fertilizers, pesticides and other chemical substances
28. Norms for maximum allowable residues of chemical and biological substances
in food
29. Environmental standards
30. Norms for environmental loads
31. Sanitary and protecting norms
V State ecological expertise
32. Tasks for ecological expertise
33. Duties of state ecological expertise
34. Objects of state ecological expertise
35. Responsibilities for non-implementation of the requirements of state
ecological expertise and responsibility of experts
36. Public ecological expertise
VI Environmental requirements related to location, designing, construction,
modernization and putting in operation of enterprises, buildings and other
objects
37. General requirements related to location, designing, construction,
modernization and putting in operation of enterprises, buildings and other
objects
38. Development and implementation of projects with environmental impact
39. Environmental requirements related to location enterprises, buildings and
other objects
40. Environmental requirements related to construction and modernization of
enterprises, buildings and other objects
41. Environmental requirements related to putting in operation of enterprises,
buildings and other objects
VII Environmental requirements related to exploitation of enterprises, buildings
and other objects and implementation of the other activities
42. General environmental requirements related to exploitation of enterprises,
buildings and other objects
43. Environmental requirements for agriculture and forestry
44. Environmental requirements for planning, designing and implementation of
melioration projects
45. Environmental requirements for energy enterprises
46. Environmental requirements for designing, construction and modernisation of
towns and other human settlements
47. Environmental requirements for the use of radioactive materials
48. Environmental requirements for the use of chemicals in other sectors of
national economy
49. Environmental protection from adverse biological impacts
50. Environmental protection from vibration, magnetism and other harmful
physical effects
51. Environmental protection from municipal and industrial waste
52. Protection of climate and ozone layer
VIII. Emergency environmental situations
53. Sites of emergencies
54. Sites of ecological disasters
55. Prevention of disasters and mitigation of their adverse effects
56. Requirements for enterprises to be ready to mitigate the consequences of
accidents
IX. Nature protected territories and objects
57. Nature protected funds of Tajikistan
58. State nature zapovedniks
59. Nature zakaznics
60. Protection of rare and disappearing animals and plants
61. protection of kurorts and health care zones
62. Protection of specifically protected zones
X. Environmental control
63. Tasks of environmental control
64. Overall state services for environmental watching
65. State environmental control
66. Narrow and industrial environmental control
67. Public environmental control
XI. Public participation in environmental protection
68. Ways of public participation in environmental protection
69. Authority of NGOs
70. Rights and duties of citizens in environmental protection
71. Guaranties of rights of NGOs in Public participation in environmental
protection
XII. Environmental education and researches
72. Overall coverage, complicities and non-continuous process of environmental
education
73. Requirements of environmental education in institutions
74. Professional environmental training of managers and experts
75. Dissemination of environmental knowledge
76. Environmental researches.
XII. Conclusion provisions
77. Rules to settle disputes in environmental protection
78. Responsibilities for violation of environmental legislation
79. Duties for compensation of environmental damage resulted from violation of
environmental legislation
80. Rules for compensation of environmental damage resulted from environmental
violation
81. Compensation of harms made from the hazardous sources for environment
82. Compensation of damage made to citizens by adverse environmental effects
83. Material responsibilities of decision makers and other officers who are guilty
in harms resulted in the violation of environmental legislation
84. Claim requirements for discontinue of environmentally harmful activities
85. Principles of international cooperation in environmental protection
86. Analysis of EIA and its tasks
87. Rights of state environmental inspectors