Russia has significantly updated its environmental protection, land use, forestry, and biodiversity regulations. Under the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Patrushev, hundreds of outdated and redundant legal acts are set to be revoked or revised by September 1, 2025, as part of President Vladimir Putin's "regulatory guillotine" initiative.
Nineteen new legal acts have been adopted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Rosselkhoznadzor (Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance), and Rosrybolovstvo (Federal Agency for Fisheries), covering veterinary medicine, crop production, and fisheries.
The Ministry of Natural Resources has issued 41 new documents, impacting critical areas such as environmental protection, waste management, land reclamation and conservation, forest protection, timber trade regulation, protection of endangered forest plants, water body monitoring, hydrocarbon field development, creation and use of artificial islands, operations in marine waters and on the continental shelf, prevention of wildlife mortality during industrial processes, and conservation of hunting resources.
These updates include new standards for maximum permissible concentrations and conditions for discharging harmful substances, as well as a list of substances prohibited from discharge into Russia's exclusive economic zone waters. These new documents align with international standards, including the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships.
Additionally, the process for approving land reclamation (conservation) works on federally owned lands has been refined, with a special commission now responsible for this.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade has also adopted two government decrees related to the creation and operation of automated systems for monitoring pollutant emissions and discharges.
"Over the past 25 years, emission requirements in many industries have significantly tightened. Taking into account these new realities, we analyzed regulatory legal acts and recommended the most important ones for re-issuance in an updated form," summarized Dmitry Patrushev.
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