The Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring is a federal body of executive authority responsible for adopting regulatory legal documents, managing state property, and providing state services in the sphere of hydrometeorology and related areas, monitoring the environment and environmental pollution, and exercising state supervision over active efforts to influence hydrometeorological and other geophysical processes. 

The Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring ensures compliance with the Russian Federation's international commitments as stipulated by the Convention of the World Meteorological Organisation, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Treaty of the Antarctic signed October 4, 1991, in Madrid.