Technical Reports Parts C,D - ICPDR

5. Brief Overview of Legal and Institutional Framework for
Water Quality Control
All issues related to water quality control and management are regulated by Water Code of Ukraine
of 1996.
National, international and regional programmes on water resources use, protection and restoration
are developed in order to provide implementation of effective measures for satisfaction of domestic
and industrial water needs, rational use and protection of waters, prevention of their adverse action.
National, international and regional programmes on water resources use, protection, and restoration
are developed on a base of data of state water accounting, water cadaster, schemes of water
resources use, protection, and restoration, etc.
Development and implementation of these programmes are funded by the national budget of
Ukraine, budget of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and local budgets, resources of enterprises
and organizations, off-budget funds, voluntary donations of organizations and citizens, and other
budgets.
The state management of water resources use, protection, and restoration is carried out according to
the river basin principle on the basis of national, international, and regional programmes for water
resources use, protection, and restoration.
The state management of water resources use, protection, and restoration is carried out by the
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Government of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, local radas
of people's deputies and their executive committees, bodies of the state executive power, specially
authorized bodies, and other state bodies according to the legislation of Ukraine.
Specially authorized bodies of the state executive power in the area of water resources use,
protection, and restoration are as follows: the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Nuclear
Safety of Ukraine; the State Committee for Water Resources, the State Committee on Geology and
Utilization of Mineral Resources of Ukraine, their local bodies and other state bodies according to
the legislation.
Their powers are:
setting up priorities of water usage;
providing development of national, international and regional programmes for water
resources use, protection, and restoration; approving regional programs;
determination of procedure for state executive bodies' action in the area of water
resources use, protection, and restoration; coordination of their activities;
establishing procedure for issuing permits for special water use, constructing, dredging
and blasting, mining sand and grit, laying cables, pipelines and other supply lines within
lands of the Water Fund, as well as for development and approval of standards for
discharge of polluting substances into water bodies;
establishing norms of payments for special water use and procedure for collecting these
payments;
establishing norms of payments for use of waters for hydropower generation and water
transport needs, and procedure for collecting these payments;
making decisions regarding discharge of wastewater from storage tanks into water bodies
in case of emergency situations, when it leads to exceeding of admissible concentrations
in these water bodies;
organization and coordination of work on prevention and mitigation of consequences of
accidents, emergency, adverse effect of waters or worsening quality of water resources;