Article 159. Environmental monitoring of the Environmental Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan

  1. Environmental monitoring is a comprehensive system of observations, measurements, collection, accumulation, storage, accounting, systematization, generalization, processing and analysis of environmental quality data provided by the state, as well as the production of environmental information based on them.

     2. Environmental monitoring is carried out on a systematic basis in order to:

     1) Environmental quality assessments;

     2) identification and analysis of anthropogenic and natural environmental impact factors;

     3) forecasting and control of changes in the state of the environment under the influence of anthropogenic and natural factors;

     4) information support for government agencies, individuals and legal entities when they make economic and managerial decisions aimed at protecting the environment, ensuring environmental safety and the ecological foundations of sustainable development;

     5) ensuring the right of all individuals and legal entities to access environmental information.

     3. The objects of environmental monitoring are:

     1) the objects specified in subitems 2) – 8) paragraph 4 of Article 166-1 of this Code;

     2) Groundwater quality;

     3) environmental impacts of category I and II facilities;

     4) the state of ecological systems and the ecosystem services they provide;

     5) specially protected natural territories, including the natural course of natural processes and the impact of environmental changes on the ecological systems of specially protected natural territories;

     6) Impacts of climate change;

     7) Waste and its management.

     4. Environmental monitoring is based on:

     1) observations and measurements carried out by the authorized body in the field of environmental protection and (or) specially authorized organizations in accordance with this Code;

     2) observations and measurements carried out by specially authorized state bodies, other state bodies and organizations within their competence defined by the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

     3) official statistical information produced in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of state statistics;

     4) information provided by state bodies at the request of the authorized body in the field of environmental protection or within the framework of the Unified State System for Monitoring the Environment and Natural Resources, as well as publicly available information by state bodies;

     5) observations and measurements carried out by individuals and legal entities within the framework of mandatory industrial environmental control;

     6) other information received by the authorized body in the field of environmental protection from state and non-state legal entities.

     5. Persons who, in accordance with this Code, are required to carry out industrial environmental control, ensure the collection, accumulation, storage, accounting, processing and gratuitous transfer of relevant data to the authorized body in the field of environmental protection for the purposes of environmental monitoring.

     6. Within the framework of environmental monitoring, the authorized body in the field of environmental protection also collects and prepares data in order to fulfill the obligations of the Republic of Kazakhstan to provide environmental information in accordance with international treaties of the Republic of Kazakhstan. 

ENVIRONMENTAL CODE OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN The Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated January 2, 2021 No. 400-VI SAM.  

The article was amended and supplemented by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated July 8, 2026, No. 340-VIII SAM 

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