Order No.57 of 1996 of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources regarding validation of the Regulation on the Commission on emergencies attached to the Ministry.

Regulation determines the principles of the formation, composition and inter-action between the main elements, the modalities of carrying out tasks, and regulates the main issues of functioning of departmental sub-systems of the common state system of prevention and liquidation of emergencies. The main tasks of the Commission are : 1. guidance of the elaboration and carrying out organizational and other arrangements for the prevention of emergencies that may cause dangerous ecological consequences ; 2. participation in the process of elaboration and carrying out federal special and scientific and technical programs as regards ecological safety and carrying out ecological monitoring in emergency situations ; 3. organization of activity as regards creation of local systems of ecological monitoring at potentially hazardous works under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources.