Ministerial Decree No. 1216 validating the Regulation hydrometeorological activity.

This Ministerial Decree establishes the modalities of licensing of hydrometeorological activity and related fields carried out by legal persons and individual entrepreneurs. The aforesaid activity shall include: (a) identification of meteorological, climatological, hydrological, oceanological, heligeophysical and agrometeorological characteristics of environment; (b) identification of pollution (including radioactive pollution) of the atmospheric air, soil, waterbodies and outer space; (c) elaboration and submittal to consumers of forecast, analytical and calculated information related to the state of environment; and (d) creation and keeping databases in the sphere of hydrometeorology and related fields. Licensing authority shall be the Federal Hydrometeorological and Environmental Monitoring Service.

Russian Federation · 2011-12-30