This Resolution provides for the establishment of the Ministry of Environment Protection and approves the Regulation that prescribes its functions and makes provision with respect to its internal structure. The Resolution also fixes the number of employees of the Ministry at 35 and provides for 2 vice-ministers and a collegium including the Minister and Vice Ministers as coordination council. The main task of the Ministry shall be the development and implementation of the national policy in the area of the environment management, and rational use of natural resources based on the principles of stable development, for the purpose of formation of living environment which meets the material and spiritual needs of the present and further generations of the people of Kyrgyzstan, and ensuring environmental safety of the state. Section 2 of the Regulation describes the functions of the Ministry in detail.
Resolution on Issues of the Ministry of Environment Protection of the Kyrgyz Republic (No. 443 of 1997).