Environmental Information in Russia

Current Institutional Framework

As of August 1996, the following changes have been introduced by the Presidential Decree No 1177 of August 14, 1996 "On the Structure of Federal Executive Bodies", as compared with the framework presented in "Environmental Information Systems in the Russian Federation", UNEP/EAP.TR/95-04; GA/205024-95/5; ISBN 92-807-1517-8 (http://www.grida.no/prog/cee/enrin/htmls/publicat.htm):

	     Previous name		     Current name or subordination

Ministry of Environmental Protection	State committee for Environmental
and Natural Resources			Protection
					Ministry of Natural Resources

Committee for Geology and Mineral	Ministry of Natural Resources
Resources
Committee for Water Resources

Ministry of Public Health and Medical	Ministry of Public Health
Industry
State Committee for
Sanitary-Epidemiological Supervision

Ministry of Education			Ministry of General and Professional
State Committee for Higher Education	Education

Ministry of Science and Technical	State Committee for Science and
Policy					Technology

State Committee for Industrial Policy	Ministry of Industry
Committee for Machine Building
Committee for Metallurgy
Committee for Chemical and
Petrochemical Industry

Committee for Land Resources and Land	State Committee for Land Resources and
Management				Land Management

Committee for Fisheries			State Committee for Fisheries

Committee for Standardisation,		State Committee for Standardisation
Metrology and Certification		Metrology and Certification

Committee for Patent and Trademarks	Agency for Patents and Trademarks

State Archive Service			Federal Archive Service

There may however be further modifications made on the basis of the inputs received from federal institutions by November 30, 1996.