LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA

of January 13, 2016 No. ZR-19

About modification and amendments in the Water code of the Republic of Armenia

Accepted by National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia on December 21, 2015

Article 1. In article 1 of the Water code of the Republic of Armenia of June 4, 2002 (further - the Code):

The concept "water resources" to state 1) in the following edition:

"water resources – all naturally recovered water inventories: surface and underground water;";

The concept "water use" after the words "capture of water from water resources" to add 2) with the words "including getting of underground fresh water";

The concept "permission to water use" after the words "purchase of water from water resource" to add 3) with the words "including gettings of underground fresh water";

The concept "monitoring of water resources" to state 4) in the following edition:

"monitoring of water resources – system of collection, the processing of the regulated observations concerning water resources (hydrogeological, hydrological, hydrophysical, hydrochemical and hydrobiological) obtained in their result of information, quality and quantitative standard of water resources and forecasting of changes and provision of information on situation of water resources;";

To add 5) with new concepts of the following content:

"surface water – water (ditches, the rivers, lakes, ponds, the superwet territories, snegopokrytiya, glaciers) which proceeds or gathered on the Earth's surface;

underground waters - water (artesian, soil, natural source) which is in the rocks constituting crust in liquid or gaseous or firm state;

underground fresh waters – waters with mineralization to 1 g/l;

the deep-well (prevailing) waters – the underground water divided in geological structure on waterproof rocks from above and from below, placed in dissect, porous or karst layer of rock which has pressure and when drilling its level stops above ceiling of water-bearing layer or gushes forth;

ground waters – the gravitational (mobile) waters with free surface located on the first waterproof layer from the Earth's surface;

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