L A W ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION I GENERAL PROVISIONS Article 1The present Law regulates environmental protection, with a view to preserving the environment, reducing risks to human health and lives, ensuring and improving the quality of life, to the benefit of both present and future generations. Environmental protection ensures integrated preservation of environmental quality, protection of natural communities, rational use of natural resources end energy in the environmentally soundest manner, as basic conditions for a healthy and sustainable development. Article 2The basic environmental goals in creating conditions for sustainable development are: permanent preservation of the primary state and biodiversity of natural communities and preservation of environmental stability;preservation of quality of both animate and inanimate nature and rational use of nature and its resources preservation and restoration of cultural and aesthetic landscape values;environmental state promotion and...