The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: for the technical supervision of dangerous equipment chapter I General provisions article 1. The law is applied in the following terms: 1) dangerous equipment — equipment and installations, which can endanger human life and health, the environment and material values and exposed in this statutory special surveillance and testing;
2) dangerous equipment means: a natural or legal person who is the owner of dangerous equipment or holder;
3) dangerous machine stockers, possessor of dangerous equipment designated trained persons whose actions affect equipment operation or dangerous technological progress;
4) dangerous equipment validation-accredited business that aims to fix dangerous equipment or technological process in compliance with the technical regulations of supervision requirements;
5) verification mark on equipment fixed reference, which confirms that the machine has passed the test, and the next check date;
6) — this law accreditation insight: the company's recognition of the right to carry out inspections of hazardous installations;
7) dangerous equipment technical supervision laws, Cabinet of Ministers regulations, the Ministry of the Latvian standards, regulations, instructions and provisions that apply to dangerous equipment and work with them.
2. article. This law defines the legal and organizational basis for work with dangerous machinery, equipment and general principles of service and State control and supervisory functions of the institution.
3. article. The requirements of this Act apply to hazardous installations dangerous equipment, dangerous equipment means of assisting personnel, companies doing the dangerous equipment design, manufacture, repair, maintenance, upgrading and testing, as well as to public authorities, carrying out State control and supervision in this area. The list of hazardous installations covered by this law shall be determined by the Cabinet of Ministers on the recommendation of the Ministry of Welfare.
4. article. (1) the procedure for formulating technical hazardous equipment supervisory regulations, established by the Cabinet of Ministers.
(2) the dangerous equipment technical supervision laws and regulations approved by the Cabinet of Ministers.
 
Chapter II the technical supervision of dangerous equipment organizations general principles article 5. Dangerous equipment required to be registered, must be controlled, monitored and verified by this law and dangerous equipment, technical surveillance law.
6. article. State registration of hazardous installations, the control and supervision of the national labour inspectorate in accordance with the law "on State labour inspection", this law and other laws, as well as the dangerous equipment technical supervision laws and regulations.
7. article. (1) inspection of dangerous equipment of the Republic of Latvia shall be made in the register of companies registered and in accordance with the procedure laid down in this Act and authorized accredited companies.
(2) undertakings carrying out hazardous equipment design, manufacture, repair, maintenance, upgrading or possessor of dangerous equipment is not entitled to make this statutory inspection of dangerous equipment.
 
Chapter III General requirements on dangerous equipment article 8. Dangerous equipment: 1) must meet the applicable technical supervision of dangerous equipment legislation, they must be provided with the evidence of conformity;
2) must be recorded in the national labour inspectorate in the Cabinet in the order;
3) must be provided with the documents, and the operation warning inscriptions in the national language;
4) must be tested for hazardous equipment technical supervision legislation, to the extent and within the time limits;
5) must be provided with the test marks issued by the company that did the check. Examination of the marks used confirms the Ministry of welfare.
 
Chapter IV business accreditation and authorization general order article 9. Accreditation of the company carried out the Cabinet approved accreditation body, which includes employers, public institutions and professional associations representatives, acting in accordance with the regulations approved by the Cabinet of Ministers.
10. article. Business accreditation is carried out in accordance with the requirements of the standards in Latvia.
11. article. The accreditation institution accredited businesses issues accreditation certificate. It specifies the dangerous equipment that accredited companies have the right to inspect, and the expiration of accreditation should be repeated.
12. article. Accreditation body in accordance with the Cabinet of Ministers approved the regulations control the accredited businesses and in cases where it finds dangerous equipment, technical surveillance law violations, is entitled to withdraw the accreditation certificate.
13. article. The company can accredit again after you have removed the relevant hazardous equipment technical surveillance law violations.
14. article. The order in which companies take the bodies to the inspection of dangerous equipment, determined by the Ministry of welfare.
 
Chapter v inspection of dangerous equipment general order article 15. The periodicity of checks of dangerous equipment and amount of which shall be determined by the technical supervision of dangerous equipment in the laws.
16. article. Payment for checks shall be determined in the contract to be concluded between the sponsoring undertaking and the inspection of dangerous installations, by means of mutual agreement.
Article 17. Test results are tracked in the Protocol, and one copy of the minutes of the examination within one day after the completion of inspection, the possessor of the equipment to be transferred to dangerous.
18. article. If the test found that equipment is a threat to human life and health, the environment and material values, it must immediately notify the possessor of dangerous equipment. In this case, one copy of the minutes of the examination one day should be sent to the national labour inspection, but if the threatened environment — environmental State Inspectorate.
19. article. Accredited businesses are obliged Ministry of welfare in order to provide the national labour inspectorate to report on the checks carried out.
 
Chapter VI General order in which licensed companies who design equipment and perform dangerous jobs with them in article 20. (1) only after receiving a licence of the special national labour inspection, the company shall be entitled to make such a business: 1) dangerous equipment design, manufacture, Assembly, repair, maintenance and upgrading;
2) blasting operations.
(2) Before blasting work must receive special permission of the national labour inspectorate.
21. article. The National Labour Inspectorate controls and monitors this law laid down in article 20 of the licensed undertakings and, where it finds dangerous equipment technical supervision or the laws and regulations specified in the licence, shall be entitled to revoke the business license. Re request a licence may be grounds for revocation of the licence.
 
Chapter VII obligations of possessor of dangerous equipment and right of article 22. Possessor of dangerous equipment must: 1) register dangerous equipment in the national labour inspectorates and to receive permission to operate it;
2) keep the equipment according to the hazardous installations dangerous technical supervisory requirements;
3 dangerous installations) provide staff training and attestation under the technical supervision of dangerous equipment requirements of the regulations;
4 hazardous equipment) to ensure technical supervision legislation of dangerous equipment tests, concluding contracts with accredited businesses, as well as to notify the Labour Inspectorate of the State with which the companies contracted for the hazardous equipment inspection;
5) to stop the dangerous equipment, if it is established that they endanger human life and health or the environment; 6) to report to the State Labour Inspectorate, and in cases where the threatened environment — environmental State Inspectorate on dangerous equipment accidents and by the demand to provide emergency investigation necessary documents and explanations.
23. article. Possessor of dangerous equipment shall have the right to: 1) with the employer of public organizations to participate in the technical monitoring of hazardous installations in legislative drafting;
2) to inform the national labour inspection and accreditation body of cases where licensed and accredited companies serving dangerous equipment, perform technical supervision of dangerous equipment regulations of inappropriate activity, and require that these companies legislation in order to pay its performance caused the damage;
3) choose accredited company with which to conclude a Treaty on hazardous equipment inspection;
4) make it dangerous in possession of equipment maintenance and repairs, if dangerous equipment, technical surveillance law this equipment is not intended for special maintenance and repair procedures.
24. article. If possession of dangerous equipment is transferred to another person, 22 and 23 of this Act referred to in article possessor of dangerous equipment and right over the new possessor with these dangerous equipment at the time of the actual transfer.
 
Chapter VIII general order in which trained and certified by the person who carried out the work with dangerous equipment

25. article. Dangerous equipment operating personnel training and attestation procedures determined by the Ministry of welfare.
26. article. Accredited business professionals who manage inspections of hazardous installations attesting Accreditation Commission.
27. article. The procedure and time limits for the licensed company atestējam specialists who manage hazardous equipment design, fabrication, Assembly, repair, maintenance and modernization work, the national labour inspectorate.
 
Chapter IX liability for hazardous technical equipment supervisory failure law article 28. Natural and legal persons in accordance with this law and other laws do work with dangerous equipment, the procedure prescribed in the legislation shall be responsible for damages caused by them.
29. article. The degree of liability and quantum of damages to the extent determined by the Court in accordance with the law.
30. article. Possessor of dangerous equipment or persons carrying out work with dangerous equipment, the procedure laid down in the legislation, it is the responsibility of the technical supervision of dangerous equipment regulations of non-compliance, as well as the national authority, legal non-compliance that are controlled and monitored by the dangerous equipment.
 
Chapter x international treaties article 31. If the Saeima approved the international treaty provides for different rules than this law, applicable in the relevant international provisions laid down in the Treaty.
 
Transitional provisions 1 to 1 June 1995 to this law, article 3 of the said equipment is not in the list of dangerous substances: 1) ionizing radiation — in accordance with the draft law on radiation and nuclear safety;
2) electrical equipment, in accordance with the Council of Ministers of 16 June 1993, decision No. 312 "on hazardous types of electrical equipment, which is in the national technical supervision".
2. by 1 June 1995, State control and supervision functions of electro technical surveillance carried out joint stock companies "latvenergo" branches "Energokontrol" energoinspekcij in accordance with the regulations approved by the Cabinet of Ministers.
3. by 1 June 1996 for the inspection of dangerous equipment maximum tariffs is entitled to impose the Ministry of welfare.
4. With the entry into force of this law shall lapse by law "on the State technical supervision" (Republic of Latvia Supreme Council and Government Informant, 1993, 14./15. no; The Saeima of the Republic of Latvia and the Cabinet of Ministers rapporteur, 1994, nr. 14, 16) and the constitutional order of article 81 of Cabinet of Ministers issued Regulation No. 137 "on amendments to the law" on State technical supervision "(Latvian Saeima and the Cabinet of Ministers rapporteur, 1994, no. 16).
  The law adopted in 1995 the Saeima on 23 February.
 
Riga, 14 March 1995 the President g. Ulmanis