Committee tasks

The main tasks of the committee are:

implementation, in accordance with its competence, of public administration in the field of study, protection, reproduction and rational use of natural resources, including the subsoil, water, flora and fauna, environmental protection;

ensuring the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, participation in the development and implementation of measures for the reproduction of objects of the animal and plant world;

control in the field of environmental protection and rational use of natural resources, including for:

use and protection of mineral resources;

protection and use of water, including the maintenance by water users of accounting for produced groundwater, withdrawn surface water and wastewater discharged into the environment;

compliance with legislation in the field of waste management;

air and ozone protection;

the implementation of measures to prevent pollution of surface waters;

compliance with the regime of protection and use of natural areas subject to special and (or) special protection, as well as compliance with the requirements established by regulatory legal acts in relation to specially protected natural territories;

the implementation of measures to comply with the established regime in water protection zones and coastal strips of water bodies;

compliance with the regime of economic and other activities in water protection zones and coastal belts, as well as compliance with the requirements established by regulatory legal acts for water protection zones and coastal strips of water bodies;

implementation of measures to prevent pollution of groundwater in the application of fertilizers, operation of filtration fields, sludge sites, waste disposal facilities, storage of industrial waste and other potential sources of groundwater pollution;

compliance with instructions and (or) rules for the operation of wastewater treatment plants, water management systems and separately located hydraulic structures and devices;

compliance with the rules of reclamation of disturbed lands;

compliance with legislation on environmental protection during the construction of facilities;

the implementation of mitigation and adaptation to climate change;

coordination of activities of other government bodies, local executive and administrative bodies in the field of environmental protection and rational use of natural resources in the Vitebsk region;

interaction within its competence with local executive and regulatory authorities in resolving environmental issues;

provision of state bodies, other organizations and citizens with environmental information, organization of the promotion of environmental knowledge, participation in the creation of a system of environmental education, education and training, interaction with public organizations (associations);

implementation of international cooperation, study, synthesis and dissemination of international experience in the field of environmental protection and rational use of natural resources.