Legal Basis - Russia
All links visited in October 2007. Official English titles could not be identified for all listed pieces of legislation. They have been translated by the authors of the website. Legislative measures are subject to constant change. Therefore, the authors do not take responsibility for missing information. Please feel free to contact us concerning any amendment of this list.
Emissions trading
No legal measures on emissions trading in Russia identified in the international literature.
Energy efficiency
Renewable energies
No legal measures on renewable energies in Russia identified in the international literature.
Climate Protection/Protection of the Ozone Layer
- Decree of the government of the Russian Federation, 28. May 2007, Nr. 332 "About the process of enactment and verification of the implementation of projects that will be realised according to Art. 6 of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change." [pdf, Russian, 362 KB]
- Disposition of the government of the Russian Federation, 8. August 1999, Nr. 1264-r “Plan for the preparation of legislative projects, that are necessary for the implementation of the federal law on the protection of the atmosphere." (entered into force by decree of the government of the Russian Federation on 8. August 1999, Nr. 1264 – r) [pdf, Russian, 114 KB]
- Decree of the government of the Russian Federation, 5. May 1999, Nr. 490 "About the intensification of measures of regulation by the state of the production and consumption of substances in the Russian Federation that deplete the ozon layer." (with amendments of 19. Dezember 2000) [pdf, Russian, 103 KB]
- Decree of the government of the Russian Federation, 8. May 1996, Nr. 563 "About Import and export to the Russian Federation of substances and products containing these substances that deplete the ozon layer." (with ammendments of 27. December 1996, 15. November 1997, 22. February 2000, 30. November 2001, 29. March, 27. August 2005, 27. November 2006) [pdf, Russian, 474 KB]
Air Pollution
- Decree of the government of the Russian Federation, 29. August 2007, No. 545 "About the introduction of changes of the regulation of the elaboration and enforcement of standards for the emission and their limits of distribution" (not available online)
- Decree of the government of the Russian Federation, 12. October 2005, Nr. 609 "About the enactment of a special technical regulation on emissions of hazardous (polluting) substances of motor vehicles, which are brought into circulation on the terrritory of the Russian Federation." (with amendments of 27. November 2006) [pdf, Russian, 347 KB]
- Decree of the government of the Russian Federation, 12. June 2003, Nr. 344 "About norms for the tariffs of immissions of polluting substances by static and moving sources and discharges of pollutants into surface and groundwater as well as the disposal of industrial and domestic waste." (with amendments of 1. July 2005) [pdf, Russian, 488 KB]
- Decree of the government of the Russian Federation, 6. February 2002, Nr. 83 "About the implementation of verification at regular intervals of transport and other vehicles in regard to the compliance with the norms on emissions of hazardous (polluting) substances to the atmosphere." (with ammendments of 23. December 2004) [pdf, Russian, 131 KB]
- Decree of the government of the Russian Federation, 14. June 2001, Nr. 463 "About the abrogation of paragraph 9 in point 1 of the scale of charges and fees and their upper limit for the pollution of the natural environment, of waste production and other kinds of harmful impacts which entered into force with decree of the governement of the Russian Federation of 28. August 1992, Nr. 632." [pdf, Russian, 43 KB]
- Decree of the government of the Russian Federation, 3. October 2000, Nr. 748 "About the designation of limits of allowable concentrations and conditions for the emission of hazardous substances in the exclusive economic zone of the Russian Federation." (with amendments of 1. February 2005) [pdf, Russian, 188 KB]
- Decree of the government of the Russian Federation, 2. March 2000, Nr. 182 "About the regulation of the identification and verification of sanitary norms for the quality of air and the limit values of physical impacts on the atmosphere and the state monitoring of hazardous (polluting) and potentially hazardous substances." [pdf, Russian, 92 KB]
