# Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources (Ukraine)

Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Міністерство захисту довкілля та природних ресурсів) is the main authority in the system of central government of Ukraine responsible for ecological monitoring and development of the country. As a government ministry it exists since 1991 being formed during dissolution of the Soviet Union.

## History

This government institution was established in 1967 as the State Committee of Nature Protection. In 1978, it was merged into the All-Union State Committee under the same name centered in Moscow. Following Ukraine's declaration of independence, the state committee was reorganized into the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine. In 1995–2000, the ministry also supervised nuclear safety as the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Nuclear Safety of Ukraine. In 2000, it switched to its current name until 2003 and recovered it again in 2010. In 2003-2010 it was the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine.
On 29 August 2019 the Honcharuk Government merged the ministry into the Ministry of Energy and Coal Mining. But the succeeding Shmyhal Government re-created (the ecology ministry) on 27 May 2020. The new returning post of ecology minister was filled when Roman Abramovsky was appointed by parliament on 19 June 2020.

## Structure

The ministry is headed by the minister of ecology and natural resources, the first deputy, and other deputies to assist the minister. The ministry elects several state administrations representatives to coordinate operation of selected government companies.

### Central body

* Minister
** State agencies
** Administration of organizational-analytical support to Minister
** Control-Revisionary Section
** Collegiate of Ministry
** First Deputy
*** Department of State Ecological Policy and International Actions
*** Legal Department
*** Section in relationship with press media and public
*** Administration in property, job security, material-technical and informational support
*** Chief Specialist in Mobilization
*** Division of controls and checks in execution of acts and decrees of higher bodies of state power
*** Division of regime-secret actions
** Deputy – Head of Central Body
*** Department of Ecological Security
*** Department of Economics and Finances
*** Administration of State Ecological Monitoring
*** Section of state expertise
*** Section of human resources
*** Section of accounting and financial report
*** Division of tender procedures
** Deputy
*** Department of Conservation Affairs
*** Department in Security of Natural Resources and Eco-Network

### State agencies

* State Service of Geology and Resources (official website if inaccessible )
** Nadra Ukrainy (official website)
* State Agency of Water Resources (official website)
* State Agency of Ecological Investments (official website)
* State Ecological Inspection (official website)

### Other institutions

* Ukrainian science-research institute of ecological problems, Kharkiv (official website)
* Ukrainian science center of sea ecology (Odesa) (official website)

## List of ministers
### Ecology and natural resources

| Name of ministry | Name of minister | Term of office | Term of office |
| Name of ministry | Name of minister | Start | End |
| State Committee in Nature Protection | Boris Voltovsky | | |
| State Committee in Nature Protection | Dina Protsenko | 11 April 1978 | 3 November 1988 |
| State Committee in Nature Protection | Viktor Filonenko | 3 November 1988 | 1991 |
| Ministry of Environmental Protection | Yuriy Shcherbak | 19 June 1991 | |
| Ministry of Environmental Protection | Yuriy Kostenko | | |
| Ministry of Environmental Protection and Nuclear Safety | Yuriy Kostenko | | |
| Ministry of Environmental Protection and Nuclear Safety | Vasyl Shevchuk | | |
| Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources | Ivan Zayets | | |
| Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources | Serhiy Kurykin | | |
| Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources | Vasyl Shevchuk | | |
| Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources | Serhiy Polyakov | | |
| Ministry of Environmental Protection | Serhiy Polyakov | | |
| Ministry of Environmental Protection | Pavlo Ihnatenko | | |
| Ministry of Environmental Protection | Vasyl Dzharty | | |
| Ministry of Environmental Protection | Heorhiy Filipchuk | | |
| Ministry of Environmental Protection | Viktor Boiko | | |
| Ministry of Environmental Protection | Mykola Zlochevsky | | |
| Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources | Mykola Zlochevsky | | |
| Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources | Eduard Stavytsky | | |
| Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources | Oleg Proskuryakov | | |
| Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources | Andriy Mokhnyk | | |
| Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources | Ihor Shevchenko | | |
| Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources | Serhiy Kurykin | | |
| Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources | Hanna Vronska | | |
| Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources | Ostap Semerak | 14 April 2016 | 29 August 2019 |
| In 2019 Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources was liquidated and merged ||||

### Energy and environmental protection

| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Term of office | Term of office |
| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Start | End |
| In 2019 Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources merged with Ministry of Energy and Coal Mining ||||
| Oleksiy Honcharuk | Oleksiy Orzhel | 29 August 2019 | 4 March 2020 |
| Denys Shmyhal | Vitaliy Shubin (acting minister) | 11 March 2020 | 16 April 2020 |
| Denys Shmyhal | Olha Buslavets (acting minister) | 16 April 2020 | 27 May 2020 |

### Environmental protection and natural resources

| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Term of office | Term of office |
| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Start | End |
| In 2020 the Ministry of Energy and Environmental Protection merge was undone and the Ministry of Environmental Protection reemerged ||||
| Denys Shmyhal | Roman Abramovsky | 19 June 2020 | 3 November 2021 |
| Denys Shmyhal | Ruslan Strilets | 3 November 2021 appointed acting minister and on 14 April 2022 appointed minister | 4 September 2024 |
| Denys Shmyhal | Svitlana Grynchuk | 5 September 2024 | Incumbent |