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Functions of the Unit of the Federal Level Specialized in the Organization and Conduct of State Environmental Reviews
Functions of the unit of the federal level specialized in the organization and conduct of state environmental reviews are established by Article 7 of the Federal Law “On Environmental Review” – “Powers, Rights and Duties of Federal Specially Authorized State Agency of Environmental Expertise”. They are as follows:
Coordination of environmental expert activity within the Russian Federation;
Enforcing an unified policy to the organization and methodology of the specially authorized territorial authorities of the environmental review;
Scientific and methodological support of the state environmental review;
Providing methodological guidance to the specially authorized territorial authorities of the environmental review;
Development, revision and approval of normative – technical, instructive and methodological documents to implement the realization of the Federal Law “On Environmental Review”;
Interaction with the executive power bodies at the federal level in the area of environmental review;
In accordance with the established procedure, interact with authorities of foreign states responsible for environmental review with regard to issues of mutual interest;
Organization and conduct of the state environmental review of the objects listed in Article 11 of the Federal Law “On Environmental Review” (the list of the objects of environmental review (about 100) subdivided into 13 groups is enclosed);
Control of the adherence to the Federal Law “On Environmental Review” and the other normative and legal acts of the Russian Federation in the area of environmental review when organizing the conduct of the state environmental review;
Consideration of disagreements, which arise in the process of the environmental review among specially authorized territorial authorities of the environmental review;
Spot checks of the state environmental review conducted by the specially authorized territorial authorities of the environmental review;
Organization of the data of the state environmental review, including formation and maintenance of databases on the planned activity, implementation of objects of environmental review and an adverse environmental effects analysis of the economic and other activity;
Participation in working out a mandatory list of activities in the area of nature management which always require licensing;
Submission to the banking institutions, statements regarding suspension (termination) of funding, crediting and other financial transactions for the objects of the environmental review, which did not receive a positive conclusion from the state environmental review;
Organization of workshops, conferences on methodological issues, methods and forms of the state environmental review, improvement of the efficiency of environmental and expert activity in the Russian Federation and dissemination of experience in this area;
Maintaining public registers of the experts of the state environmental reviews.
Official Duties of the Unit of Federal Level Specialized in Organization and Conduct of State Environmental Reviews
- Enforcement of compliance of the state environmental review procedure with the requirements of the Federal Law “On Environmental Review”, other federal acts as well as the requirements of the normative-technical, instructive and methodological documents;
- Notification of state authorities of the constituents of the Russian Federation and local self-government bodies in advance of the sessions of expert commission of the state environmental review on the objects of environmental review, which are realized in the territory of the relevant constituent of the Russian Federation;
- Securing of the possibility for the project initiator, who made the application for the state environmental review, to become familiarized with the normative-technical, instructive and methodological documents regulating the organization and procedure for the state environmental review;
- Securing of possibility for non-government organizations (associations), which conduct public environmental review to become familiarized with normative-technical documents regulating the process of the state environmental review;
- Sending materials to local self-government bodies, non-government organizations (associations) and general public about the results of consideration of their proposals on the object of review in the course of the state environmental review and information on the conclusion of the state environmental review;
- Making public the results of the state environmental review on demand of mass media;
- Response to the legislative and executive authorities of the Russian Federation as well as legislative and executive authorities of the constituents of the Russian Federation on their enquiries about the results of the state environmental review of the concrete objects of environmental review;
- Preparation and submission of the relevant materials to the law enforcing bodies in order to call to account those persons, who are guilty in violation of the legislation of the Russian Federation on environmental review.
Functions of the Unit of Territorial Level specialized in Organization and Conduct of State Environmental Reviews
Functions of the unit of the territorial level specialized in the organization and conduct of state environmental reviews are established by Article 8 of the Federal Law “On Environmental Review” – “Powers, Rights and Duties of Specially Authorized Territorial Authorities of Environmental Expertise”. They are as follows:
Interaction with the executive power bodies of the constituents of the Russian Federation in the area of environmental review;
Normative-technical, scientific and methodological support of the state environmental review, coordination of the research activity on the formation of the database of normative and technical documents, which specify realization of the legislation of the Russian Federation in the area of environmental review within the territory of the respective constituent of the Russian Federation;
Development, revision and approval of normative – technical, instructive and methodological documents, which specify realization of the present Federal act as part of the state environmental review within the territory of the respective constituent of the Russian Federation;
Organization and conduct of the state environmental review of the objects listed in Article 12 of the Federal Law “On Environmental Review” (the list is enclosed), including formation of the commission of experts for the state environmental review;
Determination of the period of validity for a positive conclusion of a state environmental review;
Organization of the data of the state environmental review, including the formation and maintenance of databases on the planned economic and other activity, realization of the objects of the environmental review and the environmental effect of the planned economic and other activity within the territory of the respective constituent of the Russian Federation;
Organization of workshops, conferences on methodological issues, methods and forms of the state environmental review, improvement of the efficiency of the environmental and expert activity and dissemination of experience in this area.
Official Duties of the Specially Authorized Territorial Authorities Specialized in the Organization and Conduct of State Environmental Reviews
To ensure compliance of the state environmental review procedure with the requirements of the present Federal Law and other normative and legal acts of the Russian Federation as well as the requirements of the normative and legal acts of the constituents of the Russian Federation;
To inform the state authorities of the constituents of the Russian Federation and local self-government bodies, in advance, of the sessions of the expert commissions of the state environmental review;
In proper time, to inform the Office of the Public Prosecutor about violations of the laws of the Russian Federation and the constituents of the Russian Federation in the area of the environmental review;
To secure the possibility for non-government organizations (associations), which conduct public environmental review to familiarize themselves with the normative-technical documents establishing the requirements for the state environmental review;
To send materials to local self-government bodies, non-government organizations (associations) and the general public providing the results of the consideration of their reasoned proposals on the environmental aspects of the planned economic and other activity in the course of the state environmental review;
To develop and submit the relevant materials to the law enforcing bodies in order to call to account those persons, who are guilty in violation of the legislation of the Russian Federation on environmental review.
To make public the results of the state environmental review on the demand of the mass media.
