Accepted at the ninth plenary session of Inter-parliamentary Assembly of the State Parties of the CIS by the resolution of June 8, 1997, No. 9-13

MODEL LAW

About hydrometeorological activities

This Law is directed to regulation of hydrometeorological activities for the purpose of requirements satisfaction of public authorities, legal entities and physical persons in receipt of information on condition of the surrounding environment and its pollution.

Chapter 1. General provisions

Article 1. Basic concepts

In this Law the following concepts are applied:

the surrounding environment - set of the used and not used climatic, land, water resources, subsoil, atmospheric and near-earth space, objects of plant and animal life interconnected among themselves and forming natural ecological complexes or systems;

hydrometeorological service - set organizationally and the companies which are technologically interconnected among themselves, organizations, the centers, the stations, posts providing accomplishment of complex of works in the field of meteorology, hydrology and other adjacent areas including climatology, oceanology, agricultural meteorology, monitoring of condition of the surrounding environment and its pollution, including ionosphere and near-earth space, and provision of information on condition of the surrounding environment, its pollution and the spontaneous phenomena;

national hydrometeorological system - set of the state and departmental hydrometeorological organizations and services, other producers of hydrometeorological information on condition of the surrounding environment and its pollution in the territory of the state;

the international hydrometeorological network - set of technologically interconnected national hydrometeorological systems acting on the basis of international treaties;

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