Law on the principles on environmental protection.

In order to provide for a healthy environment this Law establishes principles and measures of environmental protection in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The text consists of 48 sections divided into 9 Parts as follows: Basic Provisions (1); Principles and Criteria of the Environmental Protection (2); Measures on Environmental Protection (3); Monitoring (4); Funding (5); Responsibilities for Pollution (6); Supervision (7); Penalties (8) and Transitional Provisions (9). The first part contains the definition of terms employed in the text such as: environment, natural resources, environmental protection, pollution, environmental impact assessment, polluting substance, waste, biotechnology, protected natural resource, disaster, etc. Data on the state and quality of the environment and data on the emission of polluting substances shall be public. The Government shall ensure monitoring of the state of environment and a Pollution Register shall be set up.