CONTENTS
IPPI Note!
For the order of enactment of this Code, see Art. 416
GENERAL PART
SECTION 1. MAIN PROVISIONS
Chapter 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1 Relationships regulated by this Code
1. This Code regulates public relations in the sphere of interaction between man and nature (environmental relations), arising in connection with the implementation by physical and legal persons of activities that have or may have an impact on the environment.
Public relations in the field of environmental monitoring, meteorological and hydrological monitoring, which are aimed at meeting the needs of the state, physical and legal persons in environmental and hydrometeorological information, also belong to the public relations regulated by this Code. 2.
2. social relations arising in the field of use of natural resources, as well as, to the extent applicable, their conservation, restoration and reproduction, are regulated depending on the type of a natural resource by land, water, forest legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Kazakhstan legislation on subsoil and subsoil use, in the field of protection, reproduction and use of fauna and other legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of protection and use of natural resources respectively.
3. Public relations arising in the field of environmental protection, and also insofar as it is necessary to ensure sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population and does not contradict this Code, shall be regulated by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of public health.
Public relations in the field of environmental protection, arising in the course of determination, establishment, application and execution of compulsory and voluntary requirements to the products, service, processes of life cycle of products (hereinafter - processes), assessment and confirmation of compliance, accreditation in the field of technical regulation and in the field of standardization, and also insofar as it does not contradict the present Code, shall be regulated by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on technical regulation and on standardization respectively.
5. Public relations in the field of atomic energy use and ensuring radiation safety of population shall be regulated by the special legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of atomic energy use, ensuring radiation safety in the part, not contradicting this Code.
6. Public relations in the field of handling biological wastes shall be regulated by the special legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of veterinary medicine in the part not contradicting this Code.
7. Subjects of relations regulated by this Code shall be natural and legal persons, the state, state bodies and officials.
Article 2 Environmental legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
1. the environmental legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan is based on the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan and consists of this Code and other regulatory legal acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
2. This Code shall be valid throughout the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan, including the continental shelf and the exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in accordance with the norms of international law.
If an international treaty ratified by the Republic of Kazakhstan establishes other rules than those contained in this Code, the rules of the international treaty shall apply. International treaties ratified by the Republic of Kazakhstan shall be directly applied to environmental relations, except for cases, when from the international treaty it follows that its application requires publication of a legislative act of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
4. Inclusion of norms, regulating ecological relations, in other laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan, except for cases, stipulated by the present Code, is forbidden. In case of contradiction between the present Code and other laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan, containing norms, regulating ecological relationships, provisions of the present Code shall be applied.
5. Civil legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan shall be applied to ecological relations in the cases when they are not regulated by the norms of the present Code.
Article 3. Purpose and objectives of environmental legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan
1. The purpose of environmental legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan is to define legal foundations, tasks and principles, and mechanisms for implementing a single state environmental policy in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
2. The objectives of the environmental legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan are:
1) ensuring a high level of environmental protection through the implementation of state regulation aimed at preventing pollution of the environment, preventing the infliction of environmental
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