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Constitution of the Russian Federation.
Date of text: 12 December 1993 (01 July 2020)

Policies

Second Nationally Determined Contribution of the Russian Federation.
Date of text: 2025
Government Order No. 2214-r validating the Action Plan for 2025–2030 for the implementation of the Strategy for the Prevention of the Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance for the period up to 2030.
Date of text: 16 August 2024
Presidential Decree No. 309 “On the national development goals for the period until 2030 and for the perspective until 2036”.
Date of text: 07 May 2024
Presidential Decree No. 812 validating the Climate Doctrine of the Russian Federation.
Date of text: 26 October 2023
Government Order No. 1788-r validating the Strategy for the development of production of organic products in the Russian Federation until 2030.
Date of text: 04 July 2023

Legislation

Agricultural and rural development

Federal Law No. 280-FZ on Organic Production.
Date of text: 03 August 2018
Federal Law No. 264-FZ on agricultural development.
Date of text: 29 December 2006
Federal Law No. 100-FZ on state regulation of agro-industrial production.
Date of text: 14 July 1997
Federal Law No. 193-FZ on agricultural cooperation.
Date of text: 08 December 1995
Federal Law No. 260-FZ “On state support in the field of agricultural insurance and on amendments to the Federal Law "On agricultural development".
Date of text: 25 July 2011 (01 March 2022)

Climate change

Federal Law No. 296-FZ “On limiting greenhouse gas emissions”.
Date of text: 02 July 2021
Presidential Decree No. 666 “On reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.”
Date of text: 04 November 2020
Order No. 371 of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Ecology validating methods for quantitative determination of greenhouse gas emissions and absorption of greenhouse gases.
Date of text: 27 May 2022
Order No. 247 of the Ministry of Economic Development validating the Procedure on classification of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs as regional regulated organizations within the framework of an experiment for limiting greenhouse gases in certain constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
Date of text: 06 May 2022
Government Resolution No. 790 validating the Regulation for creating and maintaining a register of carbon units, as well as conducting transactions with carbon units in the register of carbon units.
Date of text: 30 April 2022 (04 April 2024)

Cultivated plants

Federal Law No. 454-FZ “On seed growing.”
Date of text: 30 December 2021
Federal Law No. 206-FZ “On plant quarantine”.
Date of text: 21 July 2014
Federal Law No. 109 - FZ of 1997 "On safe handling of pesticides and agricultural chemicals".
Date of text: 19 July 1997 (17 April 2017)
Law No. 5605-1 on the protection of selection achievements.
Date of text: 06 August 1993
Federal Law No. 203-FZ On state regulation of production and circulation of tobaccos, tobacco products, nicotine-containing products and raw materials for their production.
Date of text: 13 June 2023

Disaster risk management

Federal Law No. 92-FZ on special ecological programs of rehabilitation of soil subject to radioactive contamination.
Date of text: 10 July 2001
Federal Law No. 69-FZ on fire prevention.
Date of text: 21 December 1994
Order No. 38 of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology validating the classification of natural forest fire hazard.
Date of text: 23 January 2025
Order No. 599 of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology validating the composition and form of presentation of data on fire hazards in forests and forest fires.
Date of text: 08 October 2024
Methodological Recommendations No. RD 03-417-01 of the State Technical and Mining Inspectorate validating the Procedure for the development of a project for monitoring industrial waterworks subject to supervision by the State Technical and Mining Inspectorate.
Date of text: 04 July 2001

Environment

Federal Law No. 7-FZ on environmental protection.
Date of text: 10 January 2002 (01 January 2024)
Law No. 492-FZ “On biological safety”.
Date of text: 30 December 2020
Federal Law No. 96-FZ on the protection of the atmospheric air.
Date of text: 04 May 1999 (19 August 2024)
Federal Law No. 89-FZ on industrial and consumer waste.
Date of text: 24 June 1998
Federal Law No. 174-FZ of 1995 "On environmental audit".
Date of text: 23 November 1995 (19 December 2023)

Fisheries and aquaculture

Federal Law No. 166-FZ on fisheries and conservation of aquatic biological resources.
Date of text: 20 December 2004 (26 July 2019)
Federal Law No. 475-FZ “On artisanal fishing”.
Date of text: 25 December 2018
Federal Law No. 148-FZ “On aquaculture (fishfarming)”.
Date of text: 02 July 2013 (06 February 2019)
Federal Law No. 191-FZ of 1998 on the Exclusive Economic Zone.
Date of text: 17 December 1998
Federal Law No. 260-FZ “On state support in the field of agricultural insurance and on amendments to the Federal Law "On agricultural development".
Date of text: 25 July 2011 (01 March 2022)

Food and nutrition

Federal Law No. 47-FZ amending Federal Law FZ-29 on food quality and food safety.
Date of text: 01 March 2020
Federal Law FZ-29 on food quality and food safety.
Date of text: 02 January 2000 (13 July 2020)
Presidential Decree No. 239 "On measures to ensure the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in the Russian Federation in connection with the spread of a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19)".
Date of text: 02 April 2020
Federal Law No. 280-FZ on Organic Production.
Date of text: 03 August 2018
Federal Law No. 323-FZ “On the fundamentals of protection of the public health”.
Date of text: 21 November 2011

Forestry

Forest Code (No. 200 – FZ).
Date of text: 08 November 2006 (25 December 2023)
Principles of the Forest Legislation of the Russian Federation, 1993.
Date of text: 06 March 1993
Federal Law No. 482-FZ amending Federal Law No. 94-FZ on the protection of the Baikal lake and some legislative acts.
Date of text: 15 December 2025
Federal Law No. 248-FZ amending some legislative acts of the Russian Federation.
Date of text: 13 June 2023
Federal Law No. 66-FZ amending Federal Law No. 218-FZ “On state registration of immovable property” and article 62 (2) of the Federal Law No. 7-FZ on environmental protection.
Date of text: 18 March 2023

Indigenous peoples

Federal Law No.49-FZ of 2001 on territories of traditional nature management of scanty indigenous populations of the North, Siberia and the Far East.
Date of text: 07 May 2001
Federal Law No. 104-FZ on general principles of organization of communities of indigenous scanty population of the North, of Siberia and of the Far East of the Russian Federation.
Date of text: 20 July 2000
Federal Law No. 82-FZ regarding guarantees to indigenous scanty population of the Russian Federation.
Date of text: 30 April 1999
Federal Law No. 82-FZ on ensuring traditional rights of sparsely distributed indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation.
Date of text: 30 April 1999 (13 May 2008)
Governmental Order No. 631-r validating the List of living and traditional economic activities of indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation.
Date of text: 08 May 2009

Land and soil

Federal Law No. 509-FZ “On the peculiarities of registering rights to certain types of real estate and on introducing amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation.”
Date of text: 02 November 2023
Land Code (No. 136-FZ of 2001).
Date of text: 25 October 2001 (31 July 2020)
Federal Law No. 78-FZ on land use planning.
Date of text: 18 June 2001
Federal Law No. 28-FZ of 2000 "On state land cadastre".
Date of text: 02 January 2000
Federal Law "Urban Code" No. 73-FZ of 1998.
Date of text: 07 May 1998

Livestock

Federal Law No. 490-FZ “On apiculture”.
Date of text: 30 December 2020
Federal Law on beekeeping.
Date of text: 02 December 1998
Law No. 4979-I on veterinary medicine.
Date of text: 14 May 1993 (02 August 2019)
Decision No. 1 of the Council of Eurasian Economic Commission validating the Instruction regulating circulation of veterinary medicinal products in the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union.
Date of text: 21 January 2022
Federal Law No. 248-FZ “On livestock by-products and on amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation.”
Date of text: 14 July 2022

Mineral resources and energy

Federal Law No. 261-FZ “On energy saving and improvement of energy efficiency”.
Date of text: 23 November 2009
Federal Law 35-FZ on electric energy.
Date of text: 26 March 2003
Federal Law No. 27-FZ of 1995 on Underground Resources.
Date of text: 03 March 1995 (02 January 2000)
Law No. 2395-I on subsoil.
Date of text: 21 February 1992 (25 December 2023)
Federal Law No.170-FZ of 1995 on use of nuclear energy.
Date of text: 21 November 1995

Sea

Federal Law No. 191-FZ of 1998 on the Exclusive Economic Zone.
Date of text: 17 December 1998
Federal Law No. 187-FZ of 1995 on the continental shelf of the Russian Federation.
Date of text: 25 October 1995
Federal Law No. 22-FZ “On navigation”.
Date of text: 14 February 2009
Federal Law No. 81-FZ enacting the Mercantile Marine Code.
Date of text: 30 April 1999 (27 December 2018)
Federal Law No. 155 - FZ "On internal waters, territorial sea and contiguous zone".
Date of text: 31 July 1998

Social protection

Federal Law No. 178-FZ “On state social assistance”.
Date of text: 17 July 1999 (29 October 2024)
Federal Law No. 3-FZ “On narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.”
Date of text: 08 January 1998 (18 July 2009)
Federal Law No. 134-FZ "On the Subsistence Minimum”.
Date of text: 24 October 1997 (29 December 2020)
Ministerial Decree No. 1302 validating the Regulation on financing of high-tech medical care, excluded from basic program of obligatory medical insurance, rendered to citizens of the Russian Federation by federal state institutions.
Date of text: 05 December 2016
Khanty-Mansi: Regional Law No. 74-oz “On the development of a socially useful sphere.”
Date of text: 07 October 2021

Water

Water Code (No. 74-FZ).
Date of text: 03 June 2006 (25 December 2023)
Basic Water Legislation of the USSR and Union Republics of 1970.
Date of text: 10 December 1970
Federal Law No. 4-FZ “On the safety of people on waterbodies”.
Date of text: 03 February 2025
Regional Law No. 888-PK “On public control”.
Date of text: 21 December 2011
Federal Law No. 416-FZ “On water supply and water discharge.”
Date of text: 07 December 2011

Wild species and ecosystems

Federal Law No. 209-FZ “On hunting and conservation of hunting resources.”
Date of text: 28 July 2009
Federal Law of the Russian Federation on Wildlife (No. 52-FZ of 1995).
Date of text: 24 April 1995
Federal Law No. 33-FZ on protected areas.
Date of text: 14 March 1995 (10 July 2023)
Federal Law No. 7-FZ on environmental protection.
Date of text: 10 January 2002 (01 January 2024)
Federal Law No. 498-FZ “On responsible treatment of animals”.
Date of text: 27 December 2018

Miscellaneous

Civil Code of the Russian Federation.
Date of text: 1994 (11 March 2024)
Federal Law No. 565-FZ “On employment.”
Date of text: 12 December 2023
Federal Law No. 273-FZ «On combating corruption».
Date of text: 25 December 2008
Federal Law No. 195-FZ “Code of Administrative Offences”.
Date of text: 30 December 2001 (23 June 2020)
Patent Law (No. 3517-1).
Date of text: 23 September 1992 (27 August 1997)

International Agreements

AGREEMENT between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Algerian People's Democratic Republic on cooperation in the field of quarantine and plant protection.
Date of text: 15 June 2023
AGREEMENT between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan on cooperation in the field of ensuring sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population.
Date of text: 03 March 2023
Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan on the mutual use of electronic systems for certification of the origin of goods.
Date of text: 03 March 2023

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