Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine () is the main authority in the system of central government of

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responsible for ecological monitoring and development of the country. As a government ministry it exists since 1991 being formed during

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History

This government institution was established 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

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. Following Ukraine's

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, the state committee was reorganized into the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine. In 1995–2000, the ministry also supervised nuclear safety as the 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 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)

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(29 August 2019) But the succeeding

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re-created (the ecology ministry) on 27 May 2020.Govt backs separation of ecology ministry from Energy and Environmental Protection Ministry

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(19 June 2020)

Structure

The ministry is headed by the minister of ecology and natural resources, the first deputy, and other deputies to assist the minister. The 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
official website
* State Agency of Water Resources
official website
* State Agency of Ecological Investments
official website
* State Ecological Inspection
official website

Other institutions

* Ukrainian science-research institute of ecological problems,

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official website
* Ukrainian science center of sea ecology (

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)
official website

List of ministers

Ecology and natural resources

Energy and environmental protection

Environmental protection and natural resources

References

External links

Official Website of the Ukrainian Ministry of Ecology
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ministry of Ecology (Ukraine)

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