Article 2 of the present Law establishes that the main tasks of state policy of St.Petersburg in the sphere of the protection of public health include elaboration and realization of special programs of St.Petersburg for the ensuring of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population and setting up of the system of incentives for the prevention of the infringement of the industrial sanitary requirements and the deterioration of ecological situation in St.Petersburg. Article 4 establishe