Order No. 303 of 1997 of the State Committee for Environmental Protection regarding validation of the Regulation on the State Committee for Environmental Protection (STATECOMECOLOGY).

The State Committee for Environmental Protection (STATECOMECOLOGY) is a federal executive body entitled to carry out jointly inter-departmental co-ordination and functional regulation in the sphere of environmental protection, ensuring ecological safety and conservation of biological diversity, as well as to carry out state ecological expertise. STATECOMECOLOGY must carry out state policy in the sphere of environmental protection, ensuring ecological safety and conservation of biological diversity and is responsible for rehabilitation and qualitative improvement of environment. STATECOMECOLOGY and its territorial branches are especially authorized institutions in the field of environmental protection and environmental audit. STATECOMECOLOGY, its territorial branches and other organizations set up by it in accordance with the established modalities make up common system.