| Agency Name: | Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources (Міністерство захисту довкілля та природних ресурсів) |
| Formed: | 19 June 1991 |
| Preceding1: | Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources |
| Jurisdiction: | Government of Ukraine |
| Headquarters: | 35, Metropolitan Vasyl Lypkivskyi street, Kyiv[1] |
| Employees: | 241 (2016) |
| Minister1 Name: | Ruslan Strilets |
| Child1 Agency: | State Service of Geology and Natural Resources |
| Child2 Agency: | Agency of Water Resources |
| Child3 Agency: | Agency of Eco. Investments |
| Child4 Agency: | State Ecological Inspection |
| Website: | Official website |
| Footnotes: | From August 2019 until May 2020 the Ministry was merged with the Ministry of Energy Generation |
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.
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.[2] But the succeeding Shmyhal Government re-created (the ecology ministry) on 27 May 2020.[3] The new returning post of ecology minister was filled when Roman Abramovsky was appointed by parliament on 19 June 2020.[4]
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.
| Name of ministry | Name of minister | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | ||
| State Committee in Nature Protection | Boris Voltovsky | ||
| Dina Protsenko | 11 April 1978 | 3 November 1988 | |
| Viktor Filonenko | 3 November 1988 | 1991 | |
| Ministry of Environmental Protection | Yuriy Shcherbak | 19 June 1991 | |
| Yuriy Kostenko | |||
| Ministry of Environmental Protection and Nuclear Safety | |||
| Vasyl Shevchuk | |||
| Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources | Ivan Zayets | ||
| Serhiy Kurykin | |||
| Vasyl Shevchuk | |||
| Serhiy Polyakov | |||
| Ministry of Environmental Protection | |||
| Pavlo Ihnatenko | |||
| Vasyl Dzharty | |||
| Heorhiy Filipchuk | |||
| Viktor Boiko | |||
| Mykola Zlochevsky | |||
| Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources | |||
| Eduard Stavytsky | |||
| Oleg Proskuryakov | |||
| Andriy Mokhnyk | |||
| Ihor Shevchenko | |||
| Ostap Semerak | 14 April 2016 | 29 August 2019 | |
| align=center colspan=6 | In 2019 Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources was liquidated and merged | ||
| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | ||
| align=center colspan=4 | In 2019 Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources merged with Ministry of Energy and Coal Mining | ||
| Oleksiy Honcharuk | Oleksiy Orzhel | 29 August 2019[5] | 4 March 2020[6] |
| Denys Shmyhal | Vitaliy Shubin (acting minister) | 11 March 2020 | 16 April 2020 |
| Olha Buslavets (acting minister) | 16 April 2020 | 27 May 2020 | |
| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Term of office | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | |||
| align=center colspan=4 | 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[7] | |
| Denys Shmyhal | Ruslan Strilets | 3 November 2021 appointed acting minister and on 14 April 2022 appointed minister[8] | Incumbent | |