This Ministerial Decree establishes that the Ministry of Environmental Protection shall be the central executive body responsible for carrying out inter-departmental coordination and for guiding the elaboration and implementation of state policy in the sphere of environmental protection and management to ensure the favourable and sustainable development of society. The Ministry shall carry out the following functions: (a) state management in the areas of environmental protection, auditing and licensing and ecological education; and (b) international cooperation, and research and dissemination of environmental information. The Ministry shall carry out the following plenary powers: (a) to conclude international agreements concerned with environmental protection; (b) to coordinate contracts for the management of the natural environment within its sphere of competence; (c) to validate environmental quality criteria and ecological requirements for economic activity; (d) to validate research programmes; and (e) to request and obtain information regarding its sphere of competence from state bodies.
Kazakhstan · 2004-10-28