RIA OREANDA, May 19, 2000, Moscow
V. Putin Signs Decree Abolishing State Committee for Environmental Protection (Goskomekologiia)
The President of the Russian Federation V. Putin has signed the Decree
"On the Structure of the Federal Bodies of the Executive Authority".
The press-service of the President has published the full text of the decree:
"With the view to form the effective structure of the federal bodies of the
executive authority, according to Article 112 of the Constitution of the
Russian Federation and the federal Constitutional law "On the government of
the Russian Federation," I decree:
1. To confirm the enclosed structure of the federal bodies of the executive authority.
2. To abolish: The Ministry for the affairs of the Commonwealth of the Independent
States; the Ministry for the science and technologies; the Ministry for Commerce;
Economy Ministry; the State committee for the problems of the North; the State
committee for land policy; the State committee for cinematography; the
State committee for environmental protection; the State committee for the
problems of youth; the federal service of the air transport of Russia; the
federal Migration department; the federal department of Russia for the
currency and export control; the Russian road agency.
3. To form: The Ministry for the economic development and commerce of Russia having
delegated to it a part of the functions of the abolished Ministries for the
affairs of CIS, Commerce, Economy, the State committee for the problems of the
North; the federal service for the currency and export control and reformed
Ministry for the physical training, sport and tourism; the Ministry of
Industry, science and technologies having delegated to it
the functions of the abolished Ministry of science and technologies and also a
part of the functions of the abolished Ministries for Commerce and Economy;
the federal service of the land-survey having delegated to it a part of the
functions of the abolished State committee for the land policy.
4. To delegate: to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs a part of the functions of the
abolished Ministry for the Affairs of CIS; to the Ministry of culture the functions
of the abolished State committee for the cinematography; to the Ministry of
Education the functions of the abolished State committee for the problems
of youth; to the Ministry of natural resources the functions of the abolished
State committee for environmental protection and federal service of the
forestry; to the Transport Ministry the functions of the abolished federal
service of the air transport and road agency; to the Finance Ministry a
part of the functions of the abolished federal service for the currency and
export control.
5. To reform: The Ministry of the state property to the Ministry privity having
delegated to it a part of the functions of the abolished state committee for the
land policy; the Ministry of physical training, sport and tourism to the
State committee for the physical training, sport and tourism; the Ministry for
the affairs of the federation and nationalities to the Ministry for the Affairs
Federation, national and migration policy having delegated to it a part of
the functions of the abolished federal migration service and a part of the
functions of the abolished state committee for the problems of the North;
the Agriculture and Food Ministry to the Ministry for Agriculture; the Ministry of
fuel and energy to the Ministry of energetic. The state courier service
attached to the government of Russia to the State
courier service; the federal service for the special building attached to the
government to the federal service of the special building.
6. To determine that the Chairman of government has 5 deputies
including the deputy Chairman of the government - Minister of Agriculture and deputy
Chairman of the government - Finance Minister.
7. To determine that the co-ordination of the work of the federal
Ministers, heads of other federal bodies of the executive authority and
the control over their activity are realized by the Chairman of the government
and his deputies according to the allocation of the responsibilities between
the deputies Chairman of the government. To determine that in case the
Chairman of the government is absent temporally, the fulfilment of his responsibilities
is laid upon one of his deputies according to the allocation of the responsibilities.
8. The government of Russia is to allocate the functions of the abolished
federal bodies of the executive authority depending on the Clauses of the
present decree within a month; to confirm the instructions about the newly formed
and reformed federal bodies of the executive authority within 2 months; to confirm the
ultimate number and the wage fund of the members of the central staff of the
federal bodies of the executive authority within a month; to provide for the holding of the
liquidation procedures and rendering the facilities and compensations to the dismissed
members according to the legislation of Russia; to submit the proposals on the introduction
of the corresponding alterations to the acts of the President about the federal bodies of the
executive authority within a month; to bring the acts into accord with the present decree.
9. The Chief state and legal department of the President is to submit the
proposals on bringing the acts of the President into accord with the present
decree within 2 months.
10. The present decree comes into effect from the date of its publishing.
Decree no. 867, signed on 17 May 2000
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