Federal Law of the Russian Federation No. 69-FZ of 21 December 1994
Unofficial translation. Only the Russian original published in the official sources of the Russian Federation has legal force. This translation is provided for reference and does not replace the official document.
For the purposes of this Federal Law, the following concepts apply:
fire safety means the state of protection of the individual, property, society and the state against fires;
fire means uncontrolled combustion causing material damage and harm to the life and health of citizens and to the interests of society and the state;
mandatory fire safety requirements (hereinafter - fire safety requirements) means special conditions of a social and (or) technical nature established for the purpose of ensuring fire safety by federal laws and other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation, as well as by regulatory documents on fire safety;
violation of fire safety requirements means non-fulfilment or improper fulfilment of fire safety requirements;
fire prevention regime means the totality of fire safety requirements, established by regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation, regulatory legal acts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and municipal legal acts on fire safety, which determine rules of conduct for people and the procedure for organising production and (or) maintaining territories, land plots, buildings, structures and premises of organisations and other protected facilities for the purpose of ensuring fire safety;
fire safety measures means actions to ensure fire safety, including actions to fulfil fire safety requirements;
fire protection service means the totality of governing bodies, units and organisations created in accordance with the established procedure and intended to organise fire prevention, extinguish fires and conduct the emergency rescue operations assigned to them;
Sub-paragraph repealed. - Federal Law No. 122-FZ of 22 August 2004;
fire-technical products means special technical, scientific-technical and intellectual products intended for ensuring fire safety, including fire-fighting machinery and equipment, fire-fighting outfit, extinguishing and fire-retardant substances, special communication and control facilities, computer programs and databases, as well as other means of preventing and extinguishing fires;
Sub-paragraph repealed. - Federal Law No. 122-FZ of 22 August 2004;
Sub-paragraph repealed as of 1 July 2021. - Federal Law No. 170-FZ of 11 June 2021;
departmental fire control means the activity of the departmental fire protection service in verifying observance of fire safety requirements by organisations subordinate to the relevant federal executive authorities, and the taking of measures based on the results of the verification;
confirmation of conformity in the field of fire safety means documentary certification of the conformity of products or other objects, of the performance of work and the provision of services, to the requirements of technical regulations, of standardisation documents adopted in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on standardisation, of fire safety norms, or to the terms of contracts;
regulatory documents on fire safety means the national standards of the Russian Federation and sets of rules containing fire safety requirements, as well as other documents containing fire safety requirements;
fire prevention means the totality of preventive measures aimed at excluding the possibility of fires occurring and at limiting their consequences;
primary fire safety measures means the implementation of norms and rules, adopted in accordance with the established procedure, on preventing fires and rescuing people and property from fires;
fire and rescue garrison means the totality of governing bodies, units and organisations located within a certain territory, irrespective of their departmental affiliation and forms of ownership, whose functions include the prevention and extinguishing of fires, as well as the conduct of emergency rescue operations;
organisation of fire extinguishing means the totality of operational-tactical and engineering-technical activities (except activities to ensure primary fire safety measures) aimed at rescuing people and property from hazardous fire factors, eliminating fires and conducting emergency rescue operations;
special fire prevention regime means additional fire safety requirements established by state authorities or local self-government bodies in the event of an increase in fire danger in the relevant territories;
fire localisation means actions aimed at preventing the possibility of further spread of combustion and at creating conditions for its elimination by the forces and means available;
coordination in the field of fire safety means activity to ensure the interconnection (interaction) and coherence of the elements of the system for ensuring fire safety;
fire prevention propaganda means informing society of the ways of ensuring fire safety;
training in fire safety measures means an organised process of forming citizens' knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of ensuring fire safety within the system of general, professional and supplementary education, in the course of labour and service activity, as well as in everyday life;
administration in the field of fire safety means the activity of the bodies participating, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, in ensuring fire safety;
fire zone means a territory where there is a threat of harm to the life and health of citizens and to the property of natural and legal persons as a result of exposure to hazardous fire factors and (or) where actions are carried out to extinguish the fire and to conduct emergency rescue operations connected with extinguishing the fire;
independent fire risk assessment (fire safety audit) means an assessment of the conformity of a protected facility to fire safety requirements and a verification of observance of the fire prevention regime by organisations and citizens, carried out by a fire risk assessment expert not interested in the results of the assessment or verification;
fire risk assessment expert means an official certified in accordance with the procedure established by the Government of the Russian Federation, carrying out activity in the field of fire risk assessment, possessing the special knowledge in the field of fire safety necessary for conducting an independent fire risk assessment (fire safety audit), and authorised to sign a conclusion on an independent fire risk assessment (fire safety audit);
knowingly false conclusion on an independent fire risk assessment (fire safety audit) means a conclusion on an independent fire risk assessment (fire safety audit) prepared without conducting an independent fire risk assessment (fire safety audit), or prepared after it has been conducted but contradicting the content of the materials submitted to the fire risk assessment expert, the state of fire safety of the protected facility in respect of which the independent fire risk assessment (fire safety audit) has been conducted, or the actual observance of the fire prevention regime by organisations and citizens;
landscape (natural) fire means an uncontrolled combustion process arising spontaneously and spreading in the natural environment, encompassing various components of the natural landscape;
forest fire means a variety of landscape (natural) fire spreading through a forest;
justified risk means the probability of a threat arising to the life and health of fire protection service personnel and (or) other persons as a result of lawful, necessary and sufficient actions or omission - in a situation requiring an immediate response from fire protection service personnel and other participants in extinguishing the fire - aimed at saving the life and health of people in the conditions of extinguishing a fire and conducting emergency rescue operations, if there are grounds to believe that such rescue is possible;
extreme necessity means a state in which an act causing harm to legally protected interests is committed to eliminate a danger directly threatening the person and rights of fire protection service personnel and (or) other persons, or the legally protected interests of society or the state, if such danger could not be eliminated by other means and the limits of extreme necessity were not exceeded. The causing of harm not corresponding to the nature and degree of the danger that threatened and to the circumstances in which the danger was being eliminated, where harm equal to that prevented, or more significant than that prevented, was caused to the legally protected interests of society or the state, is recognised as exceeding the limits of extreme necessity;
level of response to a landscape (natural) fire means a state of readiness of the governing bodies and forces whose tasks include extinguishing landscape (natural) fires, requiring the state authorities of the Russian Federation, the state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, local self-government bodies and organisations to take additional measures to eliminate landscape (natural) fires in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
The legislation of the Russian Federation on fire safety is based on the Constitution of the Russian Federation and includes this Federal Law, federal laws and other regulatory legal acts adopted in accordance with it, as well as laws and other regulatory legal acts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, regulatory legal acts of the public authority bodies of the federal territories, and municipal legal acts regulating fire safety matters.
The legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation does not apply in the part establishing fire safety requirements lower than those of this Federal Law.
The system for ensuring fire safety is the totality of forces and means, as well as measures of a legal, organisational, economic, social and scientific-technical nature, aimed at the prevention of fires, their extinguishing and the conduct of emergency rescue operations.
The main elements of the system for ensuring fire safety are the state authorities, local self-government bodies, organisations and citizens participating in ensuring fire safety in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
The main functions of the system for ensuring fire safety:
regulatory legal regulation and implementation of state measures in the field of fire safety;
creation of the fire protection service and organisation of its activity;
development and implementation of fire safety measures;
realisation of rights, duties and responsibility in the field of fire safety;
conduct of fire prevention propaganda and training of the population in fire safety measures;
assistance to the activity of volunteer firefighters, and involvement of the population in ensuring fire safety;
scientific-technical support of fire safety;
information support in the field of fire safety;
exercise of federal state fire supervision and other control functions for ensuring fire safety;
production of fire-technical products;
carrying out activity in the field of fire safety;
licensing of certain types of activity and confirmation of conformity of products and services in the field of fire safety (hereinafter - confirmation of conformity);
Sub-paragraph repealed. - Federal Law No. 122-FZ of 22 August 2004;
extinguishing fires and conducting emergency rescue operations;
establishment of a special fire prevention regime;
organisation and implementation of fire prevention.
The fire protection service is divided into the following types:
The main tasks of the fire protection service are:
organisation and implementation of fire prevention;
rescue of people and property in fires, and provision of first aid;
organisation and implementation of the extinguishing of fires and the conduct of emergency rescue operations.
The fire protection service is not involved in actions for the prevention and elimination of socio-political and inter-ethnic conflicts and mass disorders.
The organisation of administration in the field of fire safety and the coordination of the activity of the fire protection service are carried out by the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety.
The State Fire Service is an integral part of the forces ensuring the security of the individual, society and the state.
The State Fire Service includes:
the fire service of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
The Federal Fire Service includes:
structural subdivisions of the central apparatus of the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety, which carry out administration and coordination of the activity of the Federal Fire Service;
structural subdivisions of the territorial bodies of the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety - the bodies authorised to address tasks of civil defence and tasks of preventing and eliminating emergency situations in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation;
executive authorities and state institutions subordinate to them, authorised to exercise federal state fire supervision (hereinafter - state fire supervision bodies);
fire-technical, scientific and educational organisations, and forensic expert institutions;
fire and rescue units of the Federal Fire Service created to organise the prevention and extinguishing of fires and the conduct of emergency rescue operations in organisations (facility units of the Federal Fire Service);
fire and rescue units of the Federal Fire Service created to organise the prevention and extinguishing of fires and the conduct of emergency rescue operations in closed administrative-territorial entities, the federal territory, and especially important and restricted-access organisations (special and military units of the Federal Fire Service);
fire and rescue units of the Federal Fire Service created to organise the prevention and extinguishing of fires and the conduct of emergency rescue operations in populated localities (territorial units of the Federal Fire Service);
fire and rescue units of the Federal Fire Service created to protect the property of organisations against fires and to conduct emergency rescue operations on a contractual basis (contractual units of the Federal Fire Service).
The organisational structure, powers, tasks, functions and procedure of activity of the Federal Fire Service are determined by the regulation on the Federal Fire Service, approved in accordance with the established procedure.
The fire service of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation is created by the state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in accordance with the legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
Federal state fire supervision is exercised:
by the state fire supervision bodies under the jurisdiction of the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety, including the state institutions of that federal executive authority;
at facilities of the federal executive authorities in the sphere of defence, security, the activity of the troops of the National Guard of the Russian Federation, internal affairs, state protection, foreign intelligence, mobilisation preparation and mobilisation, and at facilities occupied by the troops of the National Guard of the Russian Federation - by the units of those federal executive authorities, of their territorial bodies and of the corresponding governing bodies, as well as by their state institutions.
The deputy head of the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety - the Chief State Inspector of the Russian Federation for Fire Supervision, who exercises federal state fire supervision - coordinates the activity of the state fire supervision bodies in the federal executive authorities in the sphere of defence, security, the activity of the troops of the National Guard of the Russian Federation, internal affairs, state protection, foreign intelligence, mobilisation preparation and mobilisation, whose jurisdiction includes matters of organising and exercising federal state fire supervision.
The subject matter of federal state fire supervision is:
observance by organisations and citizens of fire safety requirements in buildings, premises, structures, at linear facilities, territories and land plots which the organisations and citizens own and (or) use and to which fire safety requirements apply, as well as assessment of their conformity to fire safety requirements;
observance by the manufacturer, the performer (the person performing the functions of a foreign manufacturer) and the seller of the requirements established by technical regulations, or of the mandatory requirements subject to application until the day of entry into force of technical regulations in accordance with Federal Law No. 184-FZ of 27 December 2002 "On Technical Regulation".
The regulation on federal state fire supervision specifies the name and structural elements of the technical regulation and (or) of the mandatory requirements subject to application until the day of entry into force of technical regulations in accordance with Federal Law No. 184-FZ of 27 December 2002 "On Technical Regulation", the assessment of observance of which is carried out within the framework of federal state fire supervision, as well as the types of products that are objects of federal state fire supervision.
Assessment of observance of fire safety requirements, as well as of the requirements provided for by sub-paragraph three of part three of this Article, in forests, at hazardous production facilities where underground mining work is conducted, in the production, transportation, storage, use and disposal of industrial explosive materials, and in the operation of road, air, sea, river and railway transport vehicles, as well as of floating sea and river craft and installations, is carried out within the framework of federal state forest control (supervision), federal state supervision in the field of industrial safety, federal state control (supervision) of road transport, urban surface electric transport and the road sector, regional state control (supervision) of road transport, urban surface electric transport and the road sector, federal state control (supervision) in the field of merchant shipping and inland water transport, federal state control (supervision) in the field of railway transport, and federal state control (supervision) in the field of civil aviation.
Where state construction supervision is provided for in the construction or reconstruction of capital construction facilities, assessment of observance of fire safety requirements is carried out within the framework of state construction supervision by the federal executive authority and the executive bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation authorised to exercise state construction supervision, in accordance with the legislation on town-planning activity. In the construction or reconstruction of facilities of federal nuclear organisations, assessment of observance of fire safety requirements is carried out within the framework of federal state construction supervision by the State Atomic Energy Corporation "Rosatom" in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Russian Federation.
The state fire supervision bodies carry out fire prevention in the form of prevention of risks of harm (damage) to legally protected values in the field of fire safety, in accordance with the procedure established by Federal Law No. 248-FZ of 31 July 2020 "On State Control (Supervision) and Municipal Control in the Russian Federation".
The organisation and exercise of federal state fire supervision are regulated by Federal Law No. 248-FZ of 31 July 2020 "On State Control (Supervision) and Municipal Control in the Russian Federation", and, in the cases specified in sub-paragraph three of part one of this Article, by regulatory legal acts of the relevant federal executive authorities adopted in agreement with the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety.
Officials of the bodies and institutions authorised to exercise federal state fire supervision, alongside the rights established by Federal Law No. 248-FZ of 31 July 2020 "On State Control (Supervision) and Municipal Control in the Russian Federation", may submit to state authorities and local self-government bodies proposals on the development and implementation of fire safety measures, on fulfilment of the requirements of the legislation on fire safety, and on the introduction (lifting) of a special fire prevention regime in the relevant territory.
The regulation on federal state fire supervision is approved by the Government of the Russian Federation.
State supervision of the exercise by the executive bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and by local self-government bodies of their powers in the field of fire safety is carried out by the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety, in accordance with the provisions of Federal Law No. 414-FZ of 21 December 2021 "On the General Principles of the Organisation of Public Authority in the Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation" and Federal Law No. 131-FZ of 6 October 2003 "On the General Principles of the Organisation of Local Self-Government in the Russian Federation".
Alongside the grounds established by Federal Law No. 131-FZ of 6 October 2003 "On the General Principles of the Organisation of Local Self-Government in the Russian Federation", a ground for conducting unscheduled inspections of local self-government bodies as regards their provision of primary fire safety measures in populated localities exposed to the threat of forest fires and other landscape (natural) fires is the existence of a decision of a state authority establishing a special fire prevention regime in the relevant territory.
The list of state fire supervision bodies and their officials carrying out state supervision of the exercise by the executive bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and by local self-government bodies of their powers in the field of fire safety is approved by the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety.
At facilities included in the list, approved by the Government of the Russian Federation, of facilities critically important for the national security of the country, other especially important fire-hazardous facilities, especially valuable cultural heritage sites of the peoples of the Russian Federation, closed administrative-territorial entities and federal territories where facility, special and military units of the Federal Fire Service are created, federal state fire supervision is exercised by those units, in accordance with Federal Law No. 248-FZ of 31 July 2020 "On State Control (Supervision) and Municipal Control in the Russian Federation", in the regime of continuous state control (supervision). When federal state fire supervision is exercised in the regime of continuous state control (supervision), scheduled control (supervisory) activities are not conducted.
Officials of the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety, when considering pending cases of administrative offences relating to fires, and in connection with the verification of reports of crimes, administrative offences and incidents connected with fires, may:
summon officials of organisations and citizens to the state fire supervision bodies when carrying out activities to verify applications and reports of crimes and incidents, as well as of administrative offences, connected with fires, and obtain from those persons the necessary explanations, certificates, documents and copies thereof;
require the presentation of documents proving the identity of citizens where there are grounds to suspect them of committing a crime connected with a fire, or where there is cause to initiate administrative offence proceedings in the field of fire safety against those citizens;
request and obtain free of charge, upon a reasoned request, from organisations, including medical organisations, citizens, state authorities and local self-government bodies, information, explanations, certificates, documents (copies thereof) and other necessary information, including personal data of citizens who died as a result of incidents connected with fires and (or) who were admitted to medical institutions with burns and bodily injuries sustained as a result of incidents connected with fires, except in cases where a federal law establishes a special procedure for obtaining such information;
summon citizens in connection with cases and materials on fires pending before the state fire supervision bodies, and obtain from them the necessary explanations, certificates, documents and copies thereof;
visit organisations without hindrance upon presentation of a service identity card, and examine the necessary documents and materials relating to proceedings in cases of administrative offences and to the verification of applications and reports of crimes, administrative offences and incidents connected with fires;
require citizens (groups of citizens) to leave the fire zone or the scene of an incident connected with a fire, where this is necessary for documenting the circumstances of the incident, crime or administrative offence, for preserving the traces of the incident, crime or administrative offence, and also to ensure the safety of citizens.
The personnel of the State Fire Service includes those holding the relevant staff positions:
persons of the rank-and-file and commanding staff of the Federal Fire Service (hereinafter - officers);
servicemen of the Federal Fire Service;
persons not holding special or military ranks (hereinafter - employees).
Citizens of the Russian Federation not younger than 17 years of age who are capable, by their personal and professional qualities, education and state of health, of performing the duties assigned to the personnel of the State Fire Service are admitted to the State Fire Service.
The provisions governing the performance of service in the Federal Fire Service and in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation respectively extend to officers and servicemen of the Federal Fire Service. The rights, duties and benefits established by the labour legislation of the Russian Federation extend to employees of the State Fire Service.
To protect their professional, social and other rights and legitimate interests, employees of the State Fire Service may associate or join, on a voluntary basis and in accordance with the legislation in force, trade unions, associations and amalgamations of the fire protection service.
In its activity, the personnel of the State Fire Service may not be restricted by decisions of political parties, mass public movements or other public associations pursuing political aims.
Part Six repealed. - Federal Law No. 122-FZ of 22 August 2004.
Personnel of the State Fire Service are issued, in confirmation of their powers, with service identity cards of the established form, in accordance with the procedure determined by the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety.
Parts Eight to Nine repealed. - Federal Law No. 122-FZ of 22 August 2004.
Officers and servicemen of the State Fire Service have insignia and uniforms established by the Government of the Russian Federation.
For employees of the State Fire Service appointed to positions filled by officers and servicemen of the State Fire Service, the period of work in the system of the State Fire Service of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergency Situations and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters (of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation) immediately preceding the appointment to those positions is counted towards the continuous length of service taken into account when calculating years of service for the payment of the percentage supplement, the receipt of other benefits and the award of pensions. This rule extends to officers and servicemen of the State Fire Service who worked in positions filled by employees of the State Fire Service (of the fire protection service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, of the fire and emergency rescue services of the Ministry of Internal Affairs), including before the entry into force of this Federal Law.
State civil servants also serve in the Federal Fire Service (in bodies where this type of state service is provided for).
Parts Thirteen to Fourteen repealed. - Federal Law No. 27-FZ of 1 April 2005.
The duration of service duty of personnel of the Federal Fire Service directly engaged in extinguishing fires and conducting emergency rescue operations is determined by the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety, in agreement with the federal executive authority for labour, unless otherwise provided by federal law.
Officers, military servicemen and employees of the federal fire service and members of their families are under the protection of the State. The social protection guarantees for officers of the federal fire service (monetary allowance, insurance guarantees and payments in compensation for harm caused in connection with the performance of official duties, the right to housing, the right to medical care, guarantees connected with service in the federal fire service, and other guarantees) are established by this Federal Law, other federal laws and other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation.
Part two repealed. - Federal Law No. 122-FZ of 22 August 2004.
Personnel of the federal fire service participating in fire-fighting have the right to priority installation of a telephone.
Part four repealed. - Federal Law No. 122-FZ of 22 August 2004.
Officers and military servicemen of the federal fire service who use personal transport for official purposes are paid monetary compensation in the established amounts.
Part six repealed. - Federal Law No. 122-FZ of 22 August 2004.
For employees of the State Fire Service working in positions provided for in the list of operational positions of the State Fire Service approved by the Government of the Russian Federation and by the executive bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, old-age pensions are established upon their reaching the age of 50 and provided that they have at least 25 years of service in the State Fire Service.
In the event of the death of an officer, military serviceman or employee of the State Fire Service or of municipal fire protection in the performance of official duties, the family of the deceased retains the right to improvement of housing conditions, including the receipt of a separate flat on the grounds that existed at the time of his death, no later than six months from the date of his death.
The Government of the Russian Federation, State authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local self-government bodies have the right to establish other guarantees of legal and social protection for the personnel of the State Fire Service not provided for by this Federal Law.
Personnel of the State Fire Service protecting from fires organisations with harmful and hazardous working conditions are covered by the guarantees of legal and social protection and the benefits established by current legislation for employees of those organisations.
For official purposes, officers of the federal fire service are provided with travel documents for all types of public transport (except taxis) on urban, suburban and local routes in accordance with the procedure established by the Government of the Russian Federation.
Officers of the federal fire service travelling to a new place of service or sent on official travel enjoy the right to book and obtain hotel accommodation out of turn and to purchase travel documents for all types of transport upon presentation of their service identity card and documents confirming the fact of travel to a new place of service or of being on official travel.
Officers and employees of the State Fire Service shall be subject to compulsory State personal insurance at the expense of the relevant budgets. The grounds, conditions and procedure for the compulsory State personal insurance of those officers, military servicemen and employees are established by federal laws, legislative acts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation.
In the event of the death (demise) of officers and employees of the federal fire service occurring in the performance of their official duties, or of their demise resulting from injury (wound, trauma, contusion) or illness sustained by them in the performance of official duties and occurring before the expiry of one year from the date of dismissal from the State Fire Service, a lump-sum benefit of 3 000 000 roubles is paid in equal shares to the members of the families of the deceased (demised), with subsequent recovery of that sum from the persons at fault.
The following are considered members of the family entitled to receive the lump-sum benefit for a deceased (demised) officer, military serviceman or employee:
the wife (husband) who, as at the day of death (demise), was in a registered marriage with the officer, military serviceman or employee of the federal fire service;
the parents of the officer, military serviceman or employee;
children under the age of 18, or older than that age if they became disabled before reaching the age of 18, as well as children studying in educational organisations in full-time education - until completion of their studies, but not beyond their reaching the age of 23.
Upon the early dismissal of officers and employees of the federal fire service from service in connection with their being found unfit for service as a result of injury (wound, trauma, contusion) or illness sustained by them in the performance of official duties, they are paid a lump-sum benefit of 2 000 000 roubles, with subsequent recovery of that sum from the persons at fault.
Losses caused to officers, military servicemen and employees of the State Fire Service in the performance of their official duties are compensated at the expense of the relevant budgets in accordance with the established procedure.
Financial support for the activities of the federal fire service and for the social guarantees and compensations of its personnel in accordance with this Federal Law is an expenditure obligation of the Russian Federation.
Financial support for the activities of the units of the State Fire Service established by State authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and for the social guarantees and compensations of the personnel of those units in accordance with the legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation is an expenditure obligation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
Financial support for primary fire safety measures within the boundaries of a municipality in accordance with this Federal Law is an expenditure obligation of the municipality.
Material and technical support of the federal fire service is carried out in accordance with the procedure and standards established by the Government of the Russian Federation. The provision of facility, special and military units of the federal fire service with movable and immovable property necessary for the performance of the tasks assigned to those units and held on the balance sheet of organisations included in the list, approved by the Government of the Russian Federation, of facilities critically important for the national security of the country, other especially important fire-hazardous facilities, especially valuable objects of the cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation, closed administrative-territorial entities and federal territories where facility, special and military units of the federal fire service are established, as well as the maintenance of such property, may be carried out at the expense of those organisations.
Financial and material and technical support for the activities of departmental and private fire protection, as well as financial support for the social guarantees and compensations of their personnel in accordance with this Federal Law, is provided by their founders at their own expense.
Financial and material and technical support for the activities of voluntary fire protection, as well as financial support for the social guarantees and compensations of volunteer fire-fighters, is provided in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
The property of the State Fire Service and of municipal fire protection shall not be subject to privatisation.
Municipal fire protection is established by local self-government bodies in the territory of municipalities.
The purpose, tasks and procedure for the establishment and organisation of the activities of municipal fire protection, and the procedure for its relations with other types of fire protection, are determined by local self-government bodies.
Federal executive authorities, as well as State corporations and organisations operating hazardous production facilities and included in the list of strategic enterprises and strategic joint-stock companies approved by the President of the Russian Federation, may establish management bodies and units of departmental fire protection to ensure fire safety at facilities under their jurisdiction.
The procedure for the organisation, reorganisation and liquidation of management bodies and units of departmental fire protection, and the conditions for the conduct of their activities and the performance of service by their personnel, are determined by the relevant regulations agreed with the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety.
Where a violation of fire safety requirements is identified that creates a threat of the outbreak of fire and a threat to the safety of people at organisations under their jurisdiction, departmental fire protection has the right to suspend, fully or partially, the work of an organisation (an individual production facility), a production area or a unit, the operation of a building, structure or premises, or the performance of individual types of work.
Part four repealed as of 1 July 2021. - Federal Law No. 170-FZ of 11 June 2021.
Control over the fire safety of diplomatic and consular institutions of the Russian Federation, as well as of missions of the Russian Federation abroad, is exercised in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, unless otherwise provided by international treaties of the Russian Federation.
Private fire protection is established in populated localities and organisations (with the exception of State corporations and organisations operating hazardous production facilities and included in the list of strategic enterprises and strategic joint-stock companies approved by the President of the Russian Federation, and of facilities under their jurisdiction).
The establishment, reorganisation and liquidation of private fire protection units are carried out in accordance with the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.
Standards for the staffing levels and technical equipment of private fire protection are established by its owner on a voluntary basis, taking into account the requirements of regulatory documents on fire safety.
Private fire protection units provide services in the field of fire safety on the basis of concluded contracts.
Voluntary fire protection is established and carries out its activities in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
Articles 14 - 15. Repealed. - Federal Law No. 122-FZ of 22 August 2004.
The powers of federal State authorities in the field of fire safety include:
development and implementation of State policy, including the adoption of federal laws and other regulatory legal acts on fire safety, and control over their execution;
development, organisation of implementation and financing of federal targeted programmes;
participation in the development of technical regulations, national standards of the Russian Federation, sets of rules containing fire safety requirements (norms and rules), and fire safety rules, including those regulating the procedure for and organisation of fire-fighting and of emergency rescue operations;
formulation of proposals for the draft federal budget for the relevant year in respect of expenditure on fire safety activities carried out by federal executive authorities, and ensuring the designated use of funds allocated for these purposes from the federal budget;
establishment, reorganisation and liquidation of management bodies, fire protection units, and fire-technical, scientific and educational organisations maintained at the expense of the federal budget;
organisation and exercise of federal State fire supervision;
Sub-paragraphs eight to ten repealed. - Federal Law No. 122-FZ of 22 August 2004;
organisation of the development of science and technology, and coordination of principal scientific research and development;
approval of the nomenclature and volumes of supplies of fire-technical products for State needs, including under the defence order;
establishment of general principles for the confirmation of conformity;
creation of State information support systems, as well as systems for the statistical recording of fires and their consequences;
Sub-paragraphs fifteen to seventeen repealed. - Federal Law No. 122-FZ of 22 August 2004;
carrying out fire-fighting by fire protection units maintained at the expense of the federal budget in populated localities, including in urban forests, and organising and carrying out fire-fighting in closed administrative-territorial entities, a federal territory, especially important and restricted-access organisations in which special and military units of the federal fire service are established, in organisations in which facility units of the federal fire service are established, as well as during federal-level events involving mass gatherings of people;
organisation of departmental fire control at facilities under the jurisdiction of federal executive authorities;
Sub-paragraph repealed. - Federal Law No. 448-FZ of 30 December 2015;
preparation of the list, approved by the Government of the Russian Federation, of facilities critically important for the national security of the country, other especially important fire-hazardous facilities, especially valuable objects of the cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation, closed administrative-territorial entities and federal territories where facility, special and military units of the federal fire service are established;
development of regulatory legal acts, approved by the Government of the Russian Federation, establishing the fire prevention regime and determining requirements for equipping protected objects which were commissioned, or the design documentation for which was submitted for expert review, before the date of entry into force of Federal Law No. 123-FZ of 22 July 2008 "Technical Regulation on Fire Safety Requirements", with automatic fire extinguishing installations, a fire alarm system, and a system for warning people and managing their evacuation in the event of fire;
carrying out certification and re-certification, early termination of the validity of a qualification certificate, and maintaining the register of certified persons, in accordance with the procedure established by the Government of the Russian Federation, for the right to design means of ensuring fire safety of buildings and structures which have been commissioned;
preparation of the list, approved by the Government of the Russian Federation, of populated localities (intra-urban territories of cities of federal significance) in which territorial units of the federal fire service are stationed.
For the purposes of urban planning activities in conditions of dense urban development, federal State authorities in the field of fire safety may establish special features of the application of individual fire safety requirements or approve individual sets of rules containing fire safety requirements, and fire safety rules (with the exception of the minimum necessary requirements for ensuring the safety of buildings and structures, including the engineering and technical support systems and networks forming part of them).
Response levels for landscape (natural) fires, as well as the criteria for identifying populated localities exposed to the threat of forest fires and other landscape (natural) fires, are established by the Government of the Russian Federation.
The procedure for developing and approving plans for fighting landscape (natural) fires (with the exception of forest fires and other landscape (natural) fires on forest fund lands, defence and security lands, and lands of specially protected natural areas) is established by the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety.
The powers of federal executive authorities in the field of fire safety provided for by this Federal Law may be transferred for exercise to the executive bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation by decrees of the President of the Russian Federation in accordance with the procedure established by Federal Law No. 414-FZ of 21 December 2021 "On the General Principles of the Organisation of Public Authority in the Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation".
The powers of State authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the field of fire safety include:
regulatory legal regulation within the limits of their competence;
organising the implementation of fire safety measures and implementing such measures;
development, approval and execution of the relevant budgets in respect of expenditure on fire safety, including on the maintenance of fire protection;
organising the training of the population in fire safety measures, as well as informing the population about fire safety measures;
development, organisation of implementation and financing of regional targeted programmes;
providing, within the limits of their competence, social and economic incentives for ensuring fire safety, including for the production and procurement of fire-technical products and for the participation of the population in preventing and combating fires;
Sub-paragraph repealed. - Federal Law No. 122-FZ of 22 August 2004;
implementing measures for the legal and social protection of the personnel of fire protection under the jurisdiction of the executive bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and of members of their families;
establishment, reorganisation and liquidation of management bodies and fire protection units maintained at the expense of the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation;
organisation of fire-fighting by the State Fire Service (with the exception of forest fires, fires in closed administrative-territorial entities, a federal territory and at facilities included in the list, approved by the Government of the Russian Federation, of facilities critically important for the national security of the country, other especially important fire-hazardous facilities, especially valuable objects of the cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation, closed administrative-territorial entities and federal territories, as well as during federal-level events involving mass gatherings of people);
approval of the list of organisations in which fire protection maintained at the expense of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation is established on a mandatory basis;
Sub-paragraph repealed. - Federal Law No. 454-FZ of 22 December 2020;
development and approval of plans for fighting landscape (natural) fires (with the exception of forest fires and other landscape (natural) fires on forest fund lands, defence and security lands, and lands of specially protected natural areas), as well as organisation of the fighting of such fires by the forces and resources of the unified State system for the prevention and elimination of emergency situations located in the territory of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation and operating in accordance with the legislation in the field of protection of the population and territories from emergency situations;
carrying out fire-fighting by fire protection units maintained at the expense of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in populated localities, including in urban forests (with the exception of forest fires, fires in closed administrative-territorial entities, a federal territory, especially important and restricted-access organisations in which special and military units of the federal fire service are established, in organisations in which facility units of the federal fire service are established, as well as during federal-level events involving mass gatherings of people), in accordance with Article 22 of this Federal Law;
approval of the list of populated localities exposed to the threat of forest fires and other landscape (natural) fires;
approval of the procedure for organising the duplication of fire outbreak signals to fire protection units in accordance with part 7 of Article 83 of Federal Law No. 123-FZ of 22 July 2008 "Technical Regulation on Fire Safety Requirements".
Matters of organisational and legal, financial, and material and technical support are established by legislative and regulatory legal acts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
The powers of local self-government bodies of settlements, municipal and urban okrugs and intra-urban districts to ensure primary fire safety measures within the boundaries of rural populated localities include:
creating conditions for the organisation of voluntary fire protection, as well as for the participation of citizens in ensuring primary fire safety measures in other forms;
creating conditions, for fire extinguishing purposes, for the abstraction of water at any time of year from external water supply sources located in rural populated localities and in the territories adjacent to them;
equipping public areas with primary fire-fighting equipment and fire prevention implements;
organising and taking measures to alert the population and units of the State Fire Service of a fire;
taking measures to contain a fire and rescue people and property before the arrival of units of the State Fire Service;
including fire safety activities in the plans, schemes and programmes for the development of the territories of settlements and of municipal and urban okrugs;
assisting State authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in informing the population about fire safety measures, including by organising and holding meetings of the population;
establishing a special fire prevention regime in the event of an increase in fire hazard.
The powers of local self-government bodies of settlements, municipal and urban okrugs and intra-urban districts to ensure primary fire safety measures within the boundaries of urban populated localities include:
creating conditions for the organisation of voluntary fire protection, as well as for the participation of citizens in ensuring primary fire safety measures in other forms;
including fire safety activities in the plans, schemes and programmes for the development of the territories of settlements and of municipal and urban okrugs;
assisting State authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in informing the population about fire safety measures, including by organising and holding meetings of the population;
establishing a special fire prevention regime in the event of an increase in fire hazard.
The powers of local self-government bodies of municipal districts include ensuring primary fire safety measures within the boundaries of municipal districts outside the boundaries of urban and rural populated localities.
Matters of organisational and legal, financial, and material and technical support for primary fire safety measures of settlements, municipal districts, municipal and urban okrugs and intra-urban districts are established by regulatory acts of local self-government bodies.
In constituent entities of the Russian Federation that are cities of federal significance, the powers of local self-government bodies provided for by this Federal Law are, in accordance with the laws of those constituent entities of the Russian Federation, exercised by the State authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation that are cities of federal significance.
In federal territories, the powers of local self-government bodies of an urban okrug provided for by this Federal Law are exercised by the public authorities of the federal territories.
Regulatory legal regulation in the field of fire safety means the adoption by State authorities of regulatory legal acts aimed at regulating social relations connected with ensuring fire safety.
Regulatory legal acts of federal executive authorities establishing fire safety requirements are developed in accordance with the procedure established by the Government of the Russian Federation.
The constituent entities of the Russian Federation may develop and approve, within the limits of their competence, regulatory legal acts on fire safety that do not contradict the fire safety requirements established by regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation.
Technical regulation in the field of fire safety is carried out in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Russian Federation on technical regulation in the field of fire safety.
For protected objects in respect of which there are no fire safety requirements established by regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation and regulatory documents on fire safety, special technical conditions are developed which reflect the specific features of ensuring the fire safety of those objects and contain a set of the necessary engineering, technical and organisational activities to ensure their fire safety, and which are subject to approval by the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety.
The special features of ensuring fire safety in the territory of the Skolkovo Innovation Centre, including the special features of the approval and application of fire safety requirements (including the requirements of technical regulations), are established by the Federal Law "On the Skolkovo Innovation Centre".
The special features of ensuring fire safety in the territory of the international medical cluster, including the special features of the application of fire safety requirements (including the requirements of technical regulations), are established by the Federal Law "On the International Medical Cluster and on Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation".
The special features of ensuring fire safety in the territory of an innovative science and technology centre, including the special features of the approval and application of fire safety requirements (including the requirements of technical regulations), are established by the Federal Law "On Innovative Science and Technology Centres and on Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation".
Fire safety measures are developed in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on fire safety, as well as on the basis of experience in combating fires and of the assessment of the fire hazard of substances, materials, technological processes, products, structural elements, buildings and structures.
Manufacturers (suppliers) of substances, materials, products and equipment indicate, on a mandatory basis, in the relevant technical documentation the fire hazard indicators of those substances, materials, products and equipment, as well as fire safety measures for handling them.
The development and implementation of fire safety measures for organisations, buildings, structures and other facilities, including in their design, shall, on a mandatory basis, provide for solutions ensuring the evacuation of people in the event of fires.
For production facilities, fire-fighting plans providing for solutions to ensure the safety of people are developed on a mandatory basis.
Fire safety measures for populated localities and the territories of administrative entities are developed and implemented by the relevant State authorities and local self-government bodies.
Part six repealed as of 1 January 2007. - Federal Law No. 232-FZ of 18 December 2006.
Fire-fighting means actions aimed at the rescue of people and property and the elimination of fires.
The conduct of emergency rescue operations carried out by fire protection means actions for the rescue of people and property and (or) for reducing to the minimum possible level the impact of explosive objects and of hazardous factors characteristic of accidents, catastrophes and other emergency situations, as well as participation in operations for the search for, neutralisation and (or) destruction of explosive objects in accordance with the procedure determined by the federal executive authority in the field of defence jointly with the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety and other federal executive authorities authorised to organise the conduct of such operations, assistance in the implementation of international programmes, projects and operations for humanitarian demining, and the performance of blasting operations in accordance with the procedure determined by the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety. The list of structural subdivisions of the territorial bodies of the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety that participate in operations for the search for, neutralisation and (or) destruction of explosive objects and that perform blasting operations is approved by the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety.
When fires are fought with the participation of other types of fire protection, the functions of coordinating the activities of the other types of fire protection are assigned to the federal fire service.
The procedure for engaging the forces and resources of fire protection units and fire and rescue garrisons for fire-fighting and emergency rescue operations is approved by the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety.
The dispatch of fire protection units for fire-fighting and emergency rescue operations in populated localities and organisations is carried out on an unconditional basis.
Fire-fighting and emergency rescue operations are carried out free of charge, unless otherwise established by the legislation of the Russian Federation.
The unified emergency services call number "112" and the telephone number for receiving reports of fires and emergency situations, assigned by the federal executive authority in the field of communications, are used to receive reports of fires and emergency situations.
When fires are extinguished and emergency rescue operations are carried out by fire protection units and by the engaged forces and means of the unified state system for the prevention and elimination of emergency situations, the necessary actions are taken to ensure the safety of people and to save property, including:
penetration into the places of the spread (possible spread) of hazardous fire factors, as well as of hazardous manifestations of accidents, disasters and other emergency situations;
creation of conditions that prevent the development of fires, as well as of accidents, disasters and other emergency situations, and ensure their elimination;
use, where necessary, of the owner's additionally available means of communication, transport, equipment, fire extinguishing means and extinguishing agents, with subsequent settlement of matters relating to their use in accordance with the established procedure;
restriction or prohibition of access to the places of fires, as well as to the zones of accidents, disasters and other emergency situations, and restriction or prohibition of vehicle and pedestrian traffic in the adjacent territories;
guarding the places where fires are being extinguished, as well as the zones of accidents, disasters and other emergency situations (including for the period of investigation of the circumstances and causes of their occurrence);
evacuation of people and property from the places of fires, accidents, disasters and other emergency situations, and provision of first aid;
suspension of the activities of organisations located in the zones affected by hazardous fire factors or hazardous manifestations of accidents, if there is a threat of harm to the life and health of the employees of those organisations and of other citizens present in their territories.
Direct management of extinguishing a fire is exercised by the person in charge of extinguishing the fire - the senior operational official of the fire protection who has arrived at the fire (unless otherwise established), who directs, on the principles of unity of command, the fire protection personnel taking part in extinguishing the fire, as well as the forces engaged in extinguishing the fire.
The person in charge of extinguishing the fire is responsible for the performance of the task and for the safety of the fire protection personnel taking part in extinguishing the fire and of the forces engaged in extinguishing the fire.
The person in charge of extinguishing the fire determines the fire zone, establishes the boundaries of the territory in which the actions of extinguishing the fire and carrying out emergency rescue operations are performed and the procedure for and specific features of performing those actions, takes decisions on saving people and property and on engaging, where necessary, additional forces and means in extinguishing the fire, including those of the unified state system for the prevention and elimination of emergency situations, establishes the procedure for directing the actions of the fire protection units at the place of the fire and of the forces engaged in extinguishing the fire, deploys the arriving forces and means at the place of the fire, organises communication in the fire zone with the participants in extinguishing the fire and with the forces engaged in extinguishing the fire and carrying out emergency rescue operations, and takes measures to preserve material evidence, property and the physical setting at the place of the fire for the subsequent establishment of the cause of the fire. Where necessary, the person in charge of extinguishing the fire takes other decisions, including decisions restricting the rights of officials and citizens in that territory.
The instructions of the person in charge of extinguishing the fire shall be binding on all officials and citizens in the territory in which the actions of extinguishing the fire are performed.
No one may interfere with the actions of the person in charge of extinguishing the fire or revoke his or her orders while the fire is being extinguished.
Fire protection personnel, including the person in charge of extinguishing the fire, engaged in extinguishing fires and carrying out emergency rescue operations, and other participants in extinguishing the fire who acted in conditions of justified risk and (or) extreme necessity, provided that the limits of extreme necessity were not exceeded, may be released from liability for causing material damage in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
When extinguishing a fire, fire protection personnel shall take measures to preserve material evidence and property.
Fire protection personnel, including the person in charge of extinguishing the fire, engaged in extinguishing fires and carrying out emergency rescue operations, and other participants in extinguishing the fire who acted in conditions of justified risk and (or) extreme necessity, provided that the limits of extreme necessity were not exceeded, may be released from liability for causing harm to the health of the people being rescued, of fire protection personnel or of other participants in extinguishing the fire, or for their death, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
For the purposes of developing proposals aimed at improving the functions of the system for ensuring fire safety, increasing the effectiveness of activities of extinguishing fires and carrying out emergency rescue operations and minimising the risks of harm (damage) resulting from fires and their consequences, and of assessing the causes, factors and conditions that led to the occurrence of fires and their consequences, an expert commission is created in the territorial bodies of the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety. The regulations on the expert commission are approved by that federal executive authority.
Fire safety measures in forests are implemented, and forest fires are extinguished, in accordance with the Forest Code of the Russian Federation and the provisions of this Article.
When forest fires are extinguished, the functions of coordinating all forces and means of extinguishing forest fires rest with the federal executive authority exercising the functions of control and supervision in the field of forest relations. That federal executive authority creates a federal headquarters for coordinating forest fire extinguishing activities, as well as corresponding headquarters in the federal districts. The procedure for forming such headquarters is established by the Government of the Russian Federation.
The instructions of the federal headquarters for coordinating forest fire extinguishing activities, issued within its competence, shall be binding.
Direct management of extinguishing a forest fire is exercised by the person in charge of extinguishing the forest fire, who directs, on the principles of unity of command, all forces and means of extinguishing forest fires.
The person in charge of extinguishing the forest fire is responsible for the performance of the task and for the safety of the persons extinguishing forest fires.
The instructions of the person in charge of extinguishing the forest fire shall be binding on all officials and citizens in the territory in which the actions of extinguishing the forest fire are performed. No one may interfere with the actions of the person in charge of extinguishing the forest fire or revoke his or her orders while the forest fire is being extinguished.
Persons who extinguished a forest fire and acted in conditions of justified risk and (or) extreme necessity, provided that the limits of extreme necessity were not exceeded, may be released from liability for causing material damage in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
Persons who extinguished a forest fire and acted in conditions of justified risk and (or) extreme necessity, provided that the limits of extreme necessity were not exceeded, may be released from liability for causing harm to the health of the people being rescued, of fire protection personnel or of other participants in extinguishing the forest fire, or for their death, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
Management bodies, State Fire Supervision bodies, units, organisations and institutions, irrespective of their departmental affiliation, organisational and legal forms and forms of ownership, whose functions include fire prevention and extinguishing fires, as well as carrying out emergency rescue operations (hereinafter - fire protection units), located permanently or temporarily in a territory with established boundaries or in one populated area or in several nearby populated areas, are combined into fire and rescue garrisons.
Fire and rescue garrisons are divided into territorial and local garrisons. Local fire and rescue garrisons form part of the territorial fire and rescue garrison.
Fire protection units located in the territory of one constituent entity of the Russian Federation are combined into territorial fire and rescue garrisons.
Fire protection units located in the territories of one municipal district or of several adjoining municipal districts, municipal okrugs, urban okrugs and intra-urban territories of cities of federal significance are combined into local fire and rescue garrisons.
Information support for the activities of fire and rescue garrisons is provided by the corresponding crisis management centres.
The chiefs of fire and rescue garrisons, ex officio, are:
for the territorial fire and rescue garrison - the head of the territorial body of the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety - the body authorised to address civil defence tasks and tasks of preventing and eliminating emergency situations in the constituent entity of the Russian Federation;
for the local fire and rescue garrison - the chief of the State Fire Service unit located in the territory of the municipality whose functions include fire prevention and extinguishing fires.
The list of territorial fire and rescue garrisons is approved by the head of the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety.
The list of local fire and rescue garrisons and the chiefs of such garrisons are approved by the head of the territorial body of the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety - the body authorised to address civil defence tasks and tasks of preventing and eliminating emergency situations in the constituent entity of the Russian Federation.
Garrison and watch services are organised in a fire and rescue garrison. The procedure for organising and performing garrison and watch services, as well as the powers of the chief of a fire and rescue garrison in performing the tasks of garrison and watch services, are established by a regulatory legal act of the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety.
Activities in the field of fire safety are carried out to implement fire safety requirements and to prevent and extinguish fires.
The types of activities in the field of fire safety include:
fire prevention in organisations and populated areas on a contractual basis;
extinguishing fires in populated areas, at production facilities and at infrastructure facilities;
experimental design work, production and testing of fire-technical products;
testing, repair and servicing of firefighting gear, external fire escape ladders and roof railings and primary fire extinguishing means, and restoration of the quality of extinguishing media;
testing of substances, materials, products, equipment and structures for compliance with fire safety requirements;
scientific and technical consulting and expert examinations;
performance of design and survey work to ensure fire safety;
development of fire safety declarations;
development of special technical specifications for protected facilities in respect of which there are no fire safety requirements established by regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation and regulatory documents on fire safety, reflecting the specific features of ensuring fire safety of such protected facilities and containing a set of necessary engineering, technical and organisational activities to ensure their fire safety;
performance of fire risk calculations, as well as other calculations to ensure fire safety;
independent fire risk assessment (fire safety audit);
fire prevention propaganda (publication and distribution of specialised literature and production of visual information materials, holding of thematic exhibitions, reviews and conferences, and use of other forms of informing the population);
training of the population in fire safety measures;
laying of stoves (fireplaces), installation of smoke flues, and their maintenance and repair;
design of fire safety systems of buildings and structures;
installation, maintenance and repair of fire safety systems of buildings and structures.
Types of activities in the field of fire safety may be carried out by contract units of the Federal Fire Service exclusively on a paid basis in accordance with the procedure determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.
The minimum list of equipment, tools and technical means, including measuring instruments, for carrying out activities of installation, maintenance and repair of fire safety systems of buildings and structures is determined by the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety.
Activities of designing fire safety systems of buildings and structures that have been put into operation may be carried out by a person attested in accordance with the procedure established by the Government of the Russian Federation.
Attestation of a natural person for the right to design fire safety systems of buildings and structures that have been put into operation consists in confirmation of that person's compliance with the mandatory attestation requirements established by the Government of the Russian Federation and is carried out at least once every five years free of charge. An application for attestation of a natural person for the right to design fire safety systems of buildings and structures that have been put into operation, or an application for attestation of officials carrying out activities in the field of fire risk assessment, is submitted in the form of an electronic document via the federal state information system "Unified Portal of State and Municipal Services (Functions)".
Employees and persons engaged in carrying out types of activities in the field of fire safety shall meet the qualification requirements specified in the qualification reference books approved in accordance with the procedure established by the Government of the Russian Federation and (or) the professional standards (if any).
Activities of extinguishing fires in populated areas, at production facilities and at infrastructure facilities, and activities of installation, maintenance and repair of fire safety systems of buildings and structures, shall be subject to licensing in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on licensing certain types of activities, taking into account the specific features established by this Federal Law.
In an application for the grant of a licence, along with the information provided for by Federal Law No. 99-FZ of 4 May 2011 "On Licensing of Certain Types of Activities", the licence applicant indicates the addresses of the places where the licensed type of activity is carried out, the list of work performed and services provided that constitute the licensed type of activity for each of those addresses, and information confirming compliance with the licensing requirements provided for by the regulations on licensing the specific type of activity approved by the Government of the Russian Federation.
An application for the grant of a licence indicates information the list of which is determined by the regulations on licensing the specific type of activity and which demonstrates the licence applicant's compliance with the licensing requirements, indicating the addresses of the places where the licensed type of activity is carried out.
An application for amendments to the register of licences for carrying out certain types of activities, in the cases and in accordance with the procedure established by Federal Law No. 99-FZ of 4 May 2011 "On Licensing of Certain Types of Activities", is submitted to the licensing authority within ten working days from the day when the circumstances necessitating amendments to the register of licences arose.
Along with the information provided for by Federal Law No. 99-FZ of 4 May 2011 "On Licensing of Certain Types of Activities", the corresponding entry in the register of licences includes the addresses of the places where the licensed type of activity is carried out and information on the types of work (services) that the licensee has the right to perform (provide) for each of those addresses.
The licensing authority that issued the licence suspends the licence where systematic (at least twice within three years) or gross violations by the licensee of the licensing requirements established by the regulations on licensing the specific type of activity are identified. In such a case, a period not exceeding ninety calendar days is set for eliminating the identified violations that led to the suspension of the licence. Suspension of a licence for systematic violations of the licensing requirements that are not gross shall not be permitted without prior warning to the licensee and without giving the licensee time to eliminate those violations in accordance with the procedure established by the Government of the Russian Federation.
If the licensee has not eliminated the violations of the licensing requirements within the set period, the licensing authority that issued the licence shall apply to a court for annulment of the licence.
A licence may be annulled by a court decision on the basis of an application by the licensing authority that issued the licence in one of the following cases:
violation by the licensee of the licensing requirements that caused grievous harm to the health of citizens, harm of medium gravity to the health of two or more citizens, harm to animals, plants, the environment or cultural heritage sites (historical and cultural monuments) of the peoples of the Russian Federation, the occurrence of man-made emergency situations, or damage to the rights and lawful interests of citizens, the defence of the country and the security of the state;
failure to submit, within the set period, the information provided for by part three of Article 24.3 of this Federal Law, or submission of inaccurate or distorted information;
failure by the licensee to eliminate, within the set period, the identified violations of the licensing requirements.
Simultaneously with filing an application with a court on the ground provided for by sub-paragraph three of part three of this Article, the licensing authority that issued the licence suspends the licence until the court decision enters into legal force.
The procedure for taking a decision to suspend a licence, as well as the procedure for the actions of the licensing authority where systematic or gross violations by the licensee of the licensing requirements are identified, is determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.
A decision to suspend a licence or to annul a licence may be appealed in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Russian Federation.
The address of the location of a legal entity and (or) of its branch is indicated as the place where the legal entity carries out the licensed type of activity. When activities of extinguishing fires in populated areas, at production facilities and at infrastructure facilities are carried out, the address of a fire station may be indicated along with the address of a branch of the legal entity.
The licence applicant and the licensee shall possess the equipment and technical means, including measuring instruments, necessary for carrying out the licensed types of activities, by right of ownership or on another lawful basis providing for the right of possession and use, at the place (places) where the licensed types of activities are carried out, including at the place where temporary work is performed.
The licensee shall notify the licensing authority of the work performed and services provided that constitute the licensed type of activity by sending the corresponding information in accordance with the procedure established by the regulations on licensing the specific type of activity.
The licensee confirms compliance with the licensing requirements by submitting information to the licensing authority in accordance with the procedure provided for by Federal Law No. 99-FZ of 4 May 2011 "On Licensing of Certain Types of Activities" every three years from the day the licence was granted.
Fire prevention propaganda is carried out through the mass media, through the publication and distribution of specialised literature and advertising materials, the holding of thematic exhibitions, reviews and conferences, and the use of other forms of informing the population not prohibited by the legislation of the Russian Federation. Fire prevention propaganda is conducted by state authorities, the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety, local self-government bodies and organisations.
Training in fire safety measures for persons engaged in labour or service activity is conducted under fire prevention briefing programmes and additional professional programmes.
The procedure, types and time frames for training persons engaged in labour or service activity under fire prevention briefing programmes, as well as the requirements for the content of those programmes and the procedure for their approval and coordination, are determined by the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety.
Additional professional education in the field of fire safety is carried out in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on education. The categories of persons undergoing training under additional professional programmes are determined by the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety.
Compulsory training of students in fire safety measures is conducted in educational organisations. Bodies administering education and the fire protection may create voluntary squads of young firefighters. The procedure for the creation and activities of voluntary squads of young firefighters is determined by the federal executive authority exercising the functions of developing and implementing state policy and regulatory legal regulation in the sphere of general education, in coordination with the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety.
Information support in the field of fire safety is provided through the creation and use, within the system for ensuring fire safety, of special information systems and data banks (hereinafter - information systems) necessary for performing the assigned tasks.
The grounds and procedure for entering fire safety information into the information systems, as well as the conditions and procedure for the familiarisation of officials and citizens with that information, are established by the legislation of the Russian Federation on fire safety.
Meteorological services and other authorised state bodies shall immediately and free of charge inform the State Fire Service of events and forecasts unfavourable for fire safety.
The mass media shall immediately and free of charge publish, at the request of the State Fire Service, urgent information aimed at ensuring the safety of the population in matters of fire safety.
State authorities and local self-government bodies shall inform the population of the decisions they have taken to ensure fire safety and shall assist in the dissemination of fire-technical knowledge.
A unified state system for statistical recording of fires and their consequences operates in the Russian Federation.
Official statistical records and state statistical reporting on fires and their consequences are maintained by the State Fire Service.
The procedure for recording fires and their consequences is determined by the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety, in coordination with the federal executive authority exercising the functions of compiling official statistical information on social, economic, demographic, environmental and other public processes in the Russian Federation, and with other interested federal executive authorities.
The established procedure for recording fires and their consequences shall be binding on state authorities, local self-government bodies, organisations and citizens engaged in entrepreneurial activity without forming a legal entity.
The federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety ensures, within its competence, the provision of information confirming the fact of the occurrence of a fire to interested persons, and of primary statistical data to the prosecution authorities of the Russian Federation for the unified state statistical recording of data on the state of crime, as well as on reports of crimes, investigative work, inquiry and prosecutorial supervision, in accordance with the Federal Law "On the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation".
An application for information confirming the fact of the occurrence of a fire is submitted in the form of an electronic document via the federal state information system "Unified Portal of State and Municipal Services (Functions)".
In the event of an increase in fire danger, a special fire prevention regime may be established in the corresponding territories by decision of state authorities or local self-government bodies.
For the period of the special fire prevention regime, additional fire safety requirements are established in the corresponding territories by regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation, regulatory legal acts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and municipal legal acts on fire safety, including requirements providing for the engagement of the population in preventing and containing fires outside the boundaries of populated areas, a ban on citizens visiting forests, and the taking of additional measures preventing the spread of forest fires and other landscape (natural) fires, as well as other fires outside the boundaries of populated areas, onto the lands of populated areas (increasing fire breaks along the boundaries of populated areas, creating mineralised fire prevention strips and similar measures).
Scientific and technical support for fire safety is provided by scientific and educational organisations.
Scientific and technical developments in the field of fire safety are financed from the federal budget, the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, local budgets and the funds of organisations, as well as from other sources of financing.
Coordination of scientific research in the field of fire safety rests with the federal executive authority authorised to address tasks in the field of fire safety, under whose jurisdiction the leading fire-technical research institution operates.
Part four repealed. - Federal Law No. 122-FZ of 22 August 2004.
Confirmation of the conformity of products and services with the established requirements in the field of fire safety is carried out in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
protection of their life, health and property in the event of a fire;
compensation for damage caused by a fire, in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation in force;
participation in establishing the causes of a fire that damaged their health and property;
receipt of information on matters of fire safety, including, in accordance with the established procedure, from the management bodies and units of the fire protection;
participation in ensuring fire safety, including, in accordance with the established procedure, in the activities of the voluntary fire protection.
comply with fire safety requirements;
keep, in premises and buildings in their ownership (use), primary fire extinguishing means and fire prevention implements in accordance with the fire prevention regime rules and the lists approved by the corresponding local self-government bodies;
immediately notify the fire protection of fires upon discovering them;
before the arrival of the fire protection, take feasible measures to save people and property and to extinguish fires;
assist the fire protection in extinguishing fires;
comply with the directives, rulings and other lawful demands of officials of the State Fire Supervision;
provide, in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Russian Federation, officials of the State Fire Supervision with the opportunity to carry out examinations and inspections of the production, utility and other premises and buildings belonging to them (except residential premises), territories and land plots, to monitor compliance with fire safety requirements and to suppress violations of those requirements.
Articles 35 - 36. Repealed. - Federal Law No. 122-FZ of 22 August 2004.
create, reorganise and liquidate, in accordance with the established procedure, fire protection units that they maintain at their own expense;
submit proposals on ensuring fire safety to state authorities and local self-government bodies;
carry out work to establish the causes and circumstances of fires that have occurred at enterprises;
establish measures of social and economic incentives for ensuring fire safety;
receive information on matters of fire safety, including, in accordance with the established procedure, from the management bodies and units of the fire protection;
provide, free of charge, on the basis of contracts concluded in accordance with the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, facility, special and military units of the federal fire service with movable and immovable property necessary for the performance of the tasks assigned to those units and carried on the balance sheet of organisations included in the list, approved by the Government of the Russian Federation, of facilities critically important for the national security of the country, other especially important fire-hazardous facilities, especially valuable cultural heritage sites of the peoples of the Russian Federation, closed administrative-territorial entities and federal territories where facility, special and military units of the federal fire service are established, and also bear the costs of maintaining such property.
comply with fire safety requirements, and also fulfil the directives, resolutions and other lawful demands of officials of the fire protection service;
develop and implement fire safety measures;
carry out fire prevention propaganda, and also train their employees in fire safety measures;
include fire safety matters in the collective contract (agreement);
keep fire protection systems and means, including primary fire extinguishing means, in good working order, and not permit their use other than for their intended purpose;
Sub-paragraph repealed. - Federal Law No. 122-FZ of 22 August 2004;
assist the fire protection service in extinguishing fires, in establishing the causes and conditions of their occurrence and development, and also in identifying persons guilty of violating fire safety requirements and causing fires;
provide, in accordance with the established procedure, the necessary forces and means when fires are being extinguished on the territories of enterprises;
provide access for officials of the fire protection service, in the performance of their official duties, to the territories, buildings, structures and other facilities of enterprises;
provide, at the demand of state fire supervision officials, information and documents on the state of fire safety at enterprises, including on the fire hazard of the products they manufacture, and also on fires that have occurred on their territories and the consequences thereof;
immediately notify the fire protection service of fires that have broken out, of malfunctions of the existing fire protection systems and means, and of changes in the condition of roads and access ways;
assist the activities of volunteer fire-fighters;
ensure the establishment and maintenance of fire protection service units at facilities on the basis of the requirements established by Article 97 of Federal Law No. 123-FZ of 22 July 2008 "Technical Regulations on Fire Safety Requirements".
The person responsible for the operation of a building or structure shall appoint a person responsible for ensuring the fire safety of such building or structure who meets the qualification requirements specified in the qualification reference books approved in accordance with the procedure established by the Government of the Russian Federation and (or) professional standards (where available).
Heads of organisations directly manage the fire safety system within the limits of their competence at the facilities under their jurisdiction and bear personal responsibility for compliance with fire safety requirements.
Responsibility for violation of fire safety requirements is borne, in accordance with the legislation in force, by:
heads of federal executive authorities;
heads of local self-government bodies;
persons authorised to possess, use or dispose of property, including heads of organisations;
persons appointed, in accordance with the established procedure, as responsible for ensuring fire safety;
officials within the limits of their competence.
Responsibility for violation of fire safety requirements in respect of flats (rooms) in houses of the state, municipal and departmental housing stock rests with the responsible tenants or lessees, unless otherwise provided by the relevant contract.
The persons specified in part one of this Article and other citizens may be brought to disciplinary, administrative or criminal liability for violation of fire safety requirements, as well as for other offences in the field of fire safety, in accordance with the legislation in force.
Part four repealed as of 1 January 2008. - Federal Law No. 63-FZ of 26 April 2007.
Part one repealed. - Federal Law No. 196-FZ of 30 December 2001.
The grounds and procedure for bringing heads of organisations to administrative liability for offences in the field of fire safety are established by the legislation of the Russian Federation.
Manufacturers (performers, sellers) bear administrative liability, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on the protection of consumer rights, for evading the fulfilment of, or untimely fulfilling, the directives of state fire supervision officials on ensuring the fire safety of goods (work, services).
This Federal Law enters into force on the day of its official publication.
Regulatory legal acts of the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation, departmental regulatory legal acts, and regulatory legal acts of state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and of local self-government bodies are brought into conformity with this Federal Law within two months of the day of its entry into force.
The Government of the Russian Federation, within a three-month period, submits, in accordance with the established procedure, to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation proposals on bringing federal legislation into conformity with this Federal Law.