05 March 2002 00:00
ON THE OUTCOMES OF A MEETING OF THE INTERAGENCY COMMISSION OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION ON ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
A meeting of the Interagency Commission of the Security Council of the Russian Federation on Environmental Safety (hereafter the Commission) was held on February 28, 2001, under the chairmanship of Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolai Lavyorov to consider the Draft Ecological Doctrine of the Russian Federation and the question of securing environmental safety in the handling of pesticides and other agrochemicals.
In discussing the Draft Ecological Doctrine, the Commission noted that the adverse man-induced environment changes create a serious danger to people's health in many parts of Russia. In this connection among national security problems one of the most important is the problem of securing environmental safety.
The Draft Ecological Doctrine of the Russian Federation had been prepared by an interagency working group with the broad participation of the representatives of the bodies of legislative and executive authority, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and public organizations and should become a fundamental document determining a state environmental policy, and its aims, objectives and thrusts for the long term. As a system of views and basic principles in the area of securing the environmental safety of the individual, society and the state, the Doctrine envisages the realization of the right of citizens to a favorable environment as enshrined in the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the Federal Law on Environmental Protection, and the rights of future generations to use natural-resource potential in the conditions of the maintenance of environmentally sustainable development. Nature conservation and the improvement of environmental quality ought to become the priority line of activity for the state and society, including with due consideration of the international obligations of Russia.
In discussing the question of securing environmental safety in the handling of pesticides and other agrochemicals it was noted that this problem has a complex interagency ecological and hygienic character. The situation that has developed in the field of the application of pesticides presents a danger to ecology and the health of the population and calls for the adoption of some appropriate decisions by the bodies of state authority at all levels, including improvement of the legislative and regulatory base, the system of state registration, and control and supervision of the implementation of the measures ensuring their safe application and storage.
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