Vladimir Putin signed Federal Law On Amendments to Article 1 of the Federal Law On Protection of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs while Carrying Out State Control (Supervision) and Municipal Control and the Federal Law On Regulating the Activities of Russian Citizens and Russian Legal Entities in the Antarctic regarding national inspection.
The Federal Law is aimed to implement the Protocol on Environment Protection to the Antarctic Treaty signed in Madrid on October 4, 1991.
The Federal Law stipulates that national inspections be carried out to identify violations of requirements and conditions accompanying permission to conduct activities in the Antarctic.