Reports on Environment and Urban Development for Alaverdy

GEO ALAVERDI: ENVIRONMENT AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

participate in the development of State programs on nature protection • and environmental management, and provides for the implementation of those programs in the territory of the Marz and in the framework of his authorities, control the implementation of the environmental legislation in the • territory of the Marz and informs the respective agencies on the cases of violations thereof, support the protection and use of preserves, wildlife areas and protected • areas, as well as the implementation of measures against poaching, illegal fi shing and deforestation, cooperate with environmental NGOs and citizens. • The local self-government bodies also have authorities of environmental protection. The RA Law “On Local Self-Government” adopted in 1996 and terminated in 2002, as well as the other water related legal acts adopted by the RA in 2001, did not include provisions that would grant the respective communities with necessary authorities, liabilities or responsibilities. However, this situation was improved afterwards. According to Article 32 of the new law on LSG, the community leader obtains the authority to manage the environmental cadastre of the community, in accordance with the law or with a Government decision pertaining thereto. According to Article 45 of the same law, the following obligatory and state assigned additional authorities shall be practiced in the sectors of environmental management and nature protection, concerning lands, forests and waters owned by the community: control in the sector of nature protection, organization of measures related o to subsoils, forests, water and air resources, as well as use and protection of fl ora and fauna; protection of lands fromerosion, fl oods, swamping, pollution by chemical, o radioactive or industrial wastes, The environmental sector of Lori also has an institutional structure. The following agencies of the Marz administration have environment related authorities: Department of Agriculture and Nature Protection of the RA Lori Marz • Administration; Lori Branch of the State Environmental Inspectorate of the RA Minitry • of Nature Protection; Forest economies of the Marz, which act within the structure of the RA • Ministry of Agriculture; Environmental NGOs, Vanadzor and Alaverdi Aarhus Centers. •

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CHAPTER 5. POLICY INTERVENTIONS AND INSTRUMENTS

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