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Accepted at the tenth plenary session of Inter-parliamentary Assembly of the State Parties of the CIS by the resolution of December 6, 1997, No. 10-7

MODEL LAW

About access to ecological information

Article 1. Law purpose

This Law provides the right to the reliable, bystry, timely and complete information about state of environment and natural resources at state governing bodies and the legal entities subordinated to them.

Article 2. Law coverage

1. This Law governs the relations arising in case of:

- collection, storage, use, transfer and distribution of ecological information:

- to protection of the rights of the subjects having access to ecological information.

2. The relations in the field of protection of intellectual property, copyright and related rights, the state and protected by the law other secret are regulated by the relevant legislation.

Article 3. Basic concepts

1. Ecological information - any information on condition of waters, the atmospheres, soils, live organisms and ecosystems and their changes, about activities, factors and measures which make or can make impact on them, and also about the planned or performed activities for use of natural resources and effects of it for the environment, including the data necessary for assessment of these effects for the environment and the population, but also - about the measures directed to protection and rational use of the environment. Ecological information can be expressed in any objektivirovanny forms.

2. Ensuring access to ecological information - transfer of this information to subjects of ecological information in oral, written and in other forms, and also provision of possibility of search of this information by it by viewing of documents and receipt of copies on site or sendings to the published materials.

3. Persons of law on ecological information - physical persons and legal entities of the state, the foreign citizens and stateless persons, foreign legal entities wishing to have ecological information.

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