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The present Law establishes legal, economic and social basis of safe operation of
potentially dangerous facilities, regulates activity of legal and physical persons
operating the given facilities directed to prevent failures capable of arising at these
facilities and eliminate consequences of the occured failures.
Provisions of the present Law extend to all legal and physical persons who are engaged
in operating potentially dangerous facilities on the territory of the Azerbaijan Republic,
regardless of their organizational - legal forms and a form of ownership.
Article 1. Basic concepts
Basic concepts used in the present Law have the following meanings:
technical safety of facilities (further referred to as technical safety) - the condition of
protection of the vital interests of citizens and society from failures capable of occuring
at potentially dangerous facilities;
technical supervision - the control over the observance of requirements of normative
and technical documents establishing the work rules at industrial facilities, and a
special permission which have been given out for activity at potentially dangerous
facilities;
failure - destruction of structures or technical constructions applied at potentially
dangerous facilities, uncontrollable explosion or distribution of dangerous substances in
environment;
incident - technical constructions stoppage or breakdown applied at potentially
dangerous facilities, the process of technological spillover, and also violation of the
requirements of normative and technical documents establishing rules for
implementing works at an industrial facility;
safety engineering - a complex of the automatic control and regulation devices,
protective constructions, watch facilities (follower arrangement), remainder,
communication and other technical measures providing safety;
certificate of conformance - an official certificate establishing conformity of
equipment, cars and mechanisms to the state standard or safety requirements of other
normative and technical documents.
Article 2. Potentially dangerous facilities
1. Industrial, supply, transport and social facilities representing danger to population
and environment (specified in appendix 1), which are engaged in reception,
manufacturing, processing, transportation, use and liquidation of sources of explosion
and ignition, radio-activity and ionizing radiation, poison gases, are considered as
potentially dangerous facilities.
2. A list of potentially dangerous facilities is approved by the relevant executive
authority.
3. Potentially dangerous facilities are registered in the state register in an order
established by the relevant executive authority.
Article 3. Technical safety requirements
1. Technical safety requirements consist of conditions, prohibitions, restrictions and
other obligatory requirements, that are established by the present Law, other regulatory
legal acts of the Azerbaijan Republic, as well as normative and technical documents
accepted in the operating order and providing technical safety.
2. Technical safety requirements must meet the state standards, labor safety rules, and
also norms of ecological and fire safety, protection of environment, population and
territory from emergencies and industrial, building and prophylactic-epidemiological
norms.
Article 4. Technical safety legislation
1. Technical safety legislation consists of the Constitution of the Azerbaijan Republic,
the present Law and other regulatory legal acts.
2. In case, if regulations of technical safety relations established by the interstate
contracts, which are supported by the Azerbaijan Republic, differ from the rules
provided by the present Law, rules of the international contracts are applied.
Article 5. State regulation in the field of technical safety
State regulation in the field of technical safety is carried out by the relevant executive
authority according to the legislation.
Article 6. Giving special permission for activity types in the field of technical safety
The order on giving special permission for activity types in the field of technical safety
is established according to the legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic.
Article 7. Technical constructions and equipment used at potentially dangerous
facility
dangerous facilities;
to check implementation of special permission conditions which have been given out
to legal and physical persons operating potentially dangerous facilities to realize the
corresponding activity type;
to reveal correctness of conducting technical investigation of failures which have
occurred at potentially dangerous facilities, and also sufficiency of measures taken as
a result of the given investigations;
to give legal and physical persons written orders to eliminate violations, revealed as
a check result;
within their powers to instruct in the field of technical safety, including
about necessity of making technical safety examination of buildings and structures at
facility, the technical constructions applied at potentially dangerous facility;
in an order established by the legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic to attract
persons who are guilty of violating technical safety requirements to administrative
responsibility, send the materials collected for instituting criminal proceedings
against the given persons to the law enforcement bodies;
to require improving the qualification of experts and officials of potentially
dangerous facilities;
in an order established by the legislation to take measures on restriction or stoppage
of operation of special permission which has been given out to legal and physical
person, and also in case of rough violation of technical safety requirements - to
cancellation of special permission;
to appear in court to claim compensation for the damage caused to life, health,
property of other persons;
to realize the powers following from the present Law, other acts of the Azerbaijan
Republic.
Article 18. Dispute resolutions order in the field of technical safety
Disputes in the field of technical safety are resolved according to the legislation of the
Azerbaijan Republic.
Article 19. Legislation infringement liability in the field of technical safety
The persons guilty of infringement of the present Law bear responsibility according to
the legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic.
Heydar Aliyev
The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Baku, November 2, 1999
N 733-IQ
Appendix 1
Potentially dangerous industrial objects
Appendix 2
Extreme limit for the dangerous substances grounding obligatory
out technical safety declaration at potentially dangerous industrial facility
working
Table 1
Quantity
limit for
dangerous
substance ()
Ammonia
500
nitrate
as
fertilizer
[(ammonium
200
Chlorine
25
Ethylene oxide
50
20
50
50
Sulphur dioxide
250
Sulphur trioxide
75
Alkyles
50
Phosgene
0,75
Methyl Isocyanate
0,15
Table 2
Quantity
limit
for
dangerous
substance ()
nflammable
200
200
20
Oxidized substances
200
Explosives
50
50
200
Note 1. Table 2 is applied to the dangerous substances which have been not specified in
table 1.
Note 2. If the distance between potentially dangerous objects is less than 500 meters
total dangerous substances is taken into account.
Note 3. If several types of dangerous substances belonging to the same category are
used their total quantity limit is defined as follows: