State Duma adopts Federal Law in the sector of water biological and mineral resources

State Duma has today adopted Federal Law regulating use and preservation of water biological and mineral resources on continental shelf and within exclusive economic zone of Russia, Gazeta.Ru says. The Law unifies definitions in the sector of water biological and mineral resources, provisions introduction of unified procedure for their use. It also intensifies control in the sector of fishing and preservation of water biological resources on continental shelf and determines responsibility of Russian and foreign users engaged in extraction of water biological resources within exclusive economic zone of Russia.