The agreement on cooperation in the field of environmental monitoring

of January 13, 1999

The State Parties of this agreement on behalf of the governments (further - the Parties),

understanding importance of environmental monitoring in the solution of tasks of ecological safety and ensuring sustainable development,

recognizing special value of interstate environmental monitoring for review of activities of national, regional and global systems of observations, assessment and the forecast of condition of the surrounding environment,

considering that availability of complete and reliable information about state of environment is necessary condition for decision making about management of nature protection activities and preserving natural complexes,

proceeding from coherence of the purposes of general information space,

agreed as follows:

Article 1

For the purposes of this agreement the stated below terms have the following values:

"ecological safety" - condition of security of the personality, society and protection of the surrounding environment of the states against threat of origin and effects of emergency situations of natural and anthropogenous nature;

"environmental monitoring" - system of observations, assessment and the forecast of condition of the surrounding environment, sources of anthropogenous impacts and timely identification of tendencies of change of ecosystems for ensuring decision making in the field of environmental protection and use of natural resources.

Article 2

The cooperation in the field of environmental monitoring is performed in the following directions:

creation of interstate watch system behind condition of the surrounding environment on the basis of use of means of space and land observation, and also the available communication infrastructure;

assistance to forming of national and regional systems of environmental monitoring;

harmonization of legal, normative and methodical, technological and hardware-software support;

timely identification of adverse ecological situations;

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