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AGREEMENT OF COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES

of May 31, 2013

About cooperation in the field of environmental protection of the State Parties of the Commonwealth of Independent States

The governments of the State Parties of the Commonwealth of Independent States which further are referred to as with the Parties

understanding responsibility to the people and the people of other states, and also future generations for providing favorable conditions for accommodation,

based on the right of each state to establish procedure for use of the earth, its subsoil, the woods, water resources, plant and animal life and other natural resources,

proceeding from understanding of integrity and indivisibility of the environment, unity of interest of all states in its preserving and sustainable development,

noting that borders between the states can not match with natural and ecological and basin borders, and understanding that economic and other activity in the territory of one state shall not cause environmental damage, to quality of life of the population and economic activity of other states,

recognizing need of acceptance of coordinated actions and development of the interstate relations in the field of creation of the legal basis of environmental protection and environmental management,

understanding need of carrying out the coordinated basic and applied ecological researches,

being guided by the Concept of further development of the Commonwealth of Independent States of October 5, 2007 and the Strategy of economic development of the Commonwealth of Independent States for the period till 2020 of November 14, 2008,

agreed as follows:

Article 1

The parties cooperate in the field of environmental protection: protection and use of lands, soils, subsoil, woods, waters, atmospheric air, ozone layer and climate, plant and animal life.

Article 2

The cooperation of the Parties is performed in the following main directions:

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