Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine ( uk, Міністерство захисту довкілля та природних ресурсів) is the main authority in the system of central government of
Ukraine
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responsible for ecological monitoring and development of the country. As a government ministry it exists since 1991 being formed during
dissolution of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...
.
History
This government institution was established back in 1967 as the State Committee of Nature Protection. In 1978, it was merged into the All-Union State Committee under the same name centered in
Moscow
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. Following
declaration of independence
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, the state committee was reorganized into the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine. In 1995-2000, the ministry also supervised the nuclear safety as Ministry of Environmental Protection and Nuclear Safety of Ukraine. In 2000, it switched to its current name until 2003 and recovered it again in 2010. In 2003-2010 it was the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine.
On 29 August 2019 the
Honcharuk Government
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History Appointment of ...
merged the ministry into the Ministry of Energy and Coal Mining.New Cabinet formed in Ukraine The Rada appointed the new Cabinet: Avakov and Markarova remained (РАДА ПРИЗНАЧИЛА НОВИЙ КАБМІН: АВАКОВ І МАРКАРОВА ЛИШИЛИСЬ)
Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukraini ...
Interfax-Ukraine
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(27 May 202p) The new returning post of ecology Minister was filled when Roman Abramovsky was appointed by parliament on 19 June 2020.Ukraine's parliament backs appointment of new environment minister
UNIAN
The UNIAN or Ukrainian Independent Information Agency of News ( uk, Українське Незалежне Інформаційне Агентство Новин, УНІАН, translit=Ukrayins'ke Nezalezhne Informatsiyne Ahentstvo Novyn) is a ...
(19 June 2020)
Structure
The ministry is headed by minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, first deputy, and other deputies to assist the minister. Ministry elects several state administrations representatives to coordinate operation of selected government companies.
Central Body
* Minister
** State agencies
** ''Administration of organizational-analytical support to Minister''
** Control-Revisionary Section
** Collegiate of Ministry
** First Deputy
*** Department of State Ecological Policy and International Actions
*** Legal Department
*** Section in relationship with press media and public
*** ''Administration in property, job security, material-technical and informational support''
*** Chief Specialist in Mobilization
*** Division of controls and checks in execution of acts and decrees of higher bodies of state power
*** Division of regime-secret actions
** Deputy – Head of Central Body
*** Department of Ecological Security
*** Department of Economics and Finances
*** ''Administration of State Ecological Monitoring''
*** Section of state expertise
*** Section of human resources
*** Section of accounting and financial report
*** Division of tender procedures
** Deputy
*** Department of Conservation Affairs
*** Department in Security of Natural Resources and Eco-Network
State agencies
* State Service of Geology and Resources official website if inaccessible )
**
Nadra Ukrainy
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* Ukrainian science-research institute of ecological problems,
Kharkiv
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* Ukrainian science center of sea ecology (
Odessa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrativ ...
Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on issues of ecological policy
The Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Environmental Policy, Nature Resources Utilization and Elimination of the Consequences of Chornobyl Catastrophe ( uk, Комітет з питань екологічної політики, при ...
Ecology
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Ecology
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