3.7.3. Improvement of the legislation of the russian federation in the field of production and consumption waste handling

N.B. Nefedyev, S.G. Psyurnichenko, Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation

 Waste management is a part of activity on environmental protection.

In the Russian Federation a basis of the legislation in the field of production and consumption waste handling make the Federal Law № 89-FZ from June 24, 1998 «About production and consumption wastes» and the Federal Law № 7-FZ from January, 10, 2002 «About environmental protection» together with the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal of 1989 (further – the Basel Convention), ratified by the Federal Law № 49-FZ dated November 25, 1994.