Law on the protection of public health.

The Law consists of 7 Sections composed of 80 articles dealing with the following matters: 1) general provisions (sect. 1, arts. 1-12); 2) medical and pharmaceutical activity (sect. 2, arts. 13-21); 3) the rights and the duties of citizens in the sphere of the protection of public health (sect. 3, arts. 22-43); 4) financing of the state public health institutions (sect. 4, arts. 44-48); 5) functions of the state public health institutions (sect. 5, arts. 49-75); 6) medical care of the population (sect. 6, arts. 76-77); 7) the conclusive provisions (sect. 7, arts. 78-80). The present Law determines and regulates the relations between the state executive bodies, officials, citizens, public associations and enterprises irrespectively of the form of property in the sphere of the protection of public health. The competence of the Cabinet of Ministers shall be to ensure ecological, radiation and environmental safety of the national territory (art. 2). Protection of public health shall be carried out by means of the improvement of environment, sanitary protection of water bodies, soil and atmospheric air (art. 3). The citizens shall have the right to ecological, sanitary and epidemiological, and radiation safety that shall be endorsed by the state (art. 23). The citizens shall have access to environmental information (art. 27).