Order No. 312 of the Federal Committee on Environmental Protection regarding the validation of the Regulation on keeping up the State register of the protected areas.

State register of the protected areas is the state compilation of the regularly renewed systematic data required for the management of the protected areas and ensuring ecologically safe development of the RF subjects. State register is the official document containing the information on all categories of federal, regional and local protected areas. Data contained in the State register establishes the grounds for decision-making in the sphere of nature management and must be taken into consideration in the process of the elaboration of schemes of land use planning, carrying out environmental audit and decision-making regarding environmental impact assessment.The Regulation consists of 4 Sections. Section 1 lays down the general provisions. Section 2 establishes the purposes and main tasks of keeping up the State register of the protected areas. Section 3 determines the contents and the structure of the State register of the protected areas. Section 4 establishes the modalities of keeping up the State register of the protected areas.