The Republic of LATVIA law on national technical supervision Act establishes the national technical supervision legal and organisational foundations, organizations, companies, institutions, organizations and employee responsibilities and competencies for safe operation of dangerous equipment guarantee.
The terms of the law of Dangerous equipment used in this law means is a machine that can endanger human life and health, and the environment-mechanical, electrical, heat, chemical energy or other forms of energy as a result of exposure and which is subject to national technical supervision.
Dangerous equipment holder is a natural person who is in possession of the property or dangerous equipment or property in which the company is used in dangerous equipment. If the machine is a dangerous legal persons owned or in use, this statutory hazardous installations possessor duties, rights and responsibilities is the head of the legal person or the head of the executive body of the company.
State technical supervision is a special public body, whose aim is to protect people, material goods and the environment from the effects of dangerous equipment.
State technical supervisory authority is a public body performing State technical supervision.
State technical supervisory regulations are standards and procedures set out in this Act, the regulations, the approved regulations, instructions and other documents on dangerous equipment design, fabrication, Assembly, operation, maintenance, repairs, upgrades, testing, and inspection.
1. article. State technical supervisory authority (1) the State technical supervision of dangerous equipment that may endanger the life and health of people, material goods and electrical energy environment effects in the State Enterprise «Energokontrol», «latvenergo subsidiaries» Energoinspekcij.
(2) the State technical supervision of dangerous equipment that may endanger the life and health of people, material goods and environment energy other exposure, except for electrical energy exposure, take the main technical supervision administration.
(3) the State technical supervision of dangerous equipment, which can endanger human life and health, material values and environment for electrical power and other energy effects in both the main technical supervision administration and State Enterprise «Energokontrol», «latvenergo subsidiaries» Energoinspekcij.
(4) State technical supervisory authority in its activities based on the laws of the Republic of Latvia, the Supreme Council, the Ministerial Council decisions and orders, the State technical supervision laws and regulations.
(5) State technical supervisory authority carried out technical supervision industry and territorial inspection.
(6) national technical regulations of the supervisory authorities shall approve the structure and the exposure is determined by the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia.
2. article. State technical supervision regulations (1) the standards governing the State technical supervision of dangerous equipment design, fabrication, Assembly, operation, maintenance, repairs, upgrades, testing, and inspection, approves the law.
(2) other State technical supervision laws and regulations approved by the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia.
(3) the State technical supervision of projects regulatory acts of the Republic of Latvia Council of Ministers develop State institutions.
(4) the State technical supervision of projects regulatory acts may develop and submit to the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia to any natural or legal person.
3. article. Registration of dangerous equipment (1) the list of types of dangerous equipment approved and State technical supervisory authority (authorities), in which the equipment is to be registered in the Republic of Latvia shall be determined by the Council of Ministers.
(2) the possessor of dangerous equipment for these facilities to be registered in the Republic of Latvia to the Council of Ministers within the national technical supervision authority (authorities) before commissioning the dangerous equipment.
4. article. State technical supervision (1) depending on the hazard of dangerous equipment and complexity are the following national technical supervision: 1) complex technical supervision of dangerous equipment which includes the design, fabrication, Assembly, operation, maintenance, repair and modernization of process monitoring;
2 partial technical supervision), which includes the manufacturing of dangerous installations, maintenance and repair of process monitoring;
3} favorites that technical supervision of dangerous equipment in the fall, the materials and the manufacturing process of components of random testing.
(2) the State technical supervision form and amount of which shall be determined by the State technical supervisory authority.
5. article. State technical supervisory authority responsibilities and rights (1) the State technical supervision authorities are obliged: 1) monitoring legal and natural persons performing public law technical supervision of dangerous equipment and operational documentation requirements for dangerous equipment design, fabrication, Assembly, operation, maintenance, repair, upgrading, testing and inspection;
2) Republic of Latvia to the Council of Ministers in the order atestē periodically to natural and legal persons who have been issued a license to the design of dangerous equipment, manufacture, Assembly, operation, repair, upgrades, servicing, inspection, or inspection;
3) to determine the content and extent of operational documentation, which is guaranteed by the operation of dangerous equipment;
4) month following the submission of the draft national technical supervisory authority to test dangerous equipment project and give its approval or permission to give a reasoned refusal in writing, if the project does not comply with the technical supervision of national legislation;
5) to delegate its representatives to be in operation as well as repaired and modernized the Commission of dangerous equipment;
6) dangerous equipment to determine frequency of inspection, if it is not regulated by the State technical supervision regulations;
7) start checking of dangerous equipment not later than three days after receipt of the request from the possessor of dangerous equipment and finish it within ten days;
8) dangerous equipment expertise to begin not later than one week after receipt of the request and complete it within a time limit to be determined in agreement with the possessor of dangerous equipment;
9) give statements the legal and natural persons of the State technical supervision laws and prevention;
10) investigate emergency hazardous equipment in the Republic of Latvia to the Council of Ministers in the order;
11) to analyze the safety of hazardous installations and, based on this analysis, to submit to the Republic of Latvia to the Council of Ministers, local authorities, undertakings, companies, institutions and organizations, proposals for guaranteeing the safety of hazardous installations and promotion, as well as to submit to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Latvia to the Council proposals for amendments and additions to the State technical supervision regulations;
12) give opinions on standards, regulations, rules, instructions and other documents related to the projects, dangerous equipment.
(2) the first subparagraph of this article 4, 7 and 8 time limits may be extended, the State technical supervisory authority in agreement with the possessor of dangerous equipment. In the event of a dispute, the term determined by the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia.
(3) State technical supervisory authority has the right to conclude agreements with natural and legal persons for carrying out the research work of State technical surveillance that also conclude agreements on dangerous equipment and expertise to the natural or legal persons who have received 10 of this law, the authorization referred to in the first subparagraph for the inspection of dangerous equipment or expertise.
6. article. National technical officials of the supervisory authorities of the right of the State technical supervisory officials have the right to: 1) presentation of a certificate of the service at any time of day without prior notice, free to visit enterprises, companies, institutions and organisations, which designed, manufactured, repaired and modernised dangerous equipment or which are located;
2 check the hazardous equipment) design, manufacture, operation, maintenance, repair, upgrading, testing, inspection and safety equipment;
3) check the operation of dangerous equipment;
4) to check the dangerous equipment the staff qualification;
5) administrative law to punish people who violate State technical supervisory regulations and the operational documentation of hazardous installations;
6) to stop the dangerous equipment in enterprises, companies, institutions and organizations in the order laid down in the Republic of Latvia of 11 December 1991 the law «On companies, institutions and organisations of the suspension order» (the Republic of Latvia Supreme Council and Government Informant, 1992, 6/7).
7. article. Hazardous duties of possessor of equipment Dangerous equipment possessor is obliged:

1) register the dangerous equipment and get it into the necessary licenses and permits in accordance with the procedure laid down in this Act before the commencement of the hazardous operation;
2 dangerous equipment) to ensure staff training before commissioning the dangerous equipment by matching the training programme and the knowledge verification arrangements with State technical supervisory authority;
3) maintain the dangerous equipment and procedures it operational documentation. Dangerous equipment operational documentation should be the national language, but this documentation may be in other languages;
4) dangerous equipment to provide the Assembly, operation, maintenance, repair, upgrading, testing, and inspection of compliance with national technical regulations and supervision of dangerous equipment operational documentation;
5) State technical supervision laws or State technical supervisory authorities within the Executive orders require a physical or legal person who is a national technical supervision authority issued the licence and with which the contract has been concluded for the dangerous equipment tests or examinations, made dangerous equipment or expertise. Where such contract has not been concluded, the possessor of the equipment in a hazardous duty to require examination or inspection shall be carried out by the State technical supervision authority;
6) prepare its hazardous facilities and operational documentation for inspection or inspection;
7) every year until February 1 to pay the annual fee for the previous year ekspluatētaj hazardous installations;
8) to report State technical supervisory authority of dangerous equipment accidents and defects which become apparent in the course of the hazardous operation;
9) notify State technical supervisory authority of hazardous facilities decommissioning.
8. article. Possessor of dangerous equipment (1) the possessor of dangerous equipment shall have the right to: 1) close to natural and legal persons are the national technical supervision authority issued license, contracts for the hazardous equipment inspection or examination;
2) request, to the natural or legal person with whom the contract has been concluded for the dangerous equipment tests or examinations, made dangerous equipment or expertise. Where such contract has not been concluded, dangerous equipment holder has the right to request a State technical supervisory authority to commit dangerous equipment or expertise;
3) create unit test of dangerous equipment and expertise. The establishment of such units does not release dangerous equipment possessor from the obligation to pay the annual fee for the hazardous equipment;
4) invite national supervisory authority a technical representative to participate in the Commission, which shall adopt the dangerous equipment before its commissioning, after repair or upgrade;
5) to participate in the national technical supervision in the drafting of the laws.
(2) If the first part of this article, paragraph 2 of the said inspection or inspection is not for the State technical supervision laws and regulations or if it is an emergency check or inspection, the associated costs to be borne by the possessor of dangerous equipment.
9. article. Natural and legal persons of the obligations and rights of dangerous equipment design, manufacturing, Assembly, operation, maintenance, repair, upgrades, testing, and inspection (1) natural and legal persons shall be designed, manufactured, assembled, operated, repaired, modernised or dangerous equipment, check out their maintenance or inspection shall be obliged: 1) before this work out to get State technical supervisory authority;
2) these works to comply with the State technical supervisory regulations and dangerous equipment documentation requirements.
(2) the natural or legal person who assembles, operate, repair or upgrade of the equipment in hazardous or maintenance, it has the right to request the possessor of dangerous equipment provides a dangerous equipment or expertise.
10. article. Permits and licences (1) dangerous equipment design, manufacturing, Assembly, maintenance, repair, upgrading, maintenance and inspection checks and revoke the licences shall be issued by the State technical supervisory authority of the Republic of Latvia to the Council of Ministers.
(2) the main technical supervision Administration issued blasting permits, if the application is in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Latvia established institutions.
(3) a licence or permit must be issued within five days after receipt of the request or within the same period to give a reasoned refusal in writing. Refusal may be appealed to the Court.
11. article. State financing of the technical supervisory authorities (1) the State technical supervision bodies financed from the State budget: 1);
2) national company «latvenergo ' income.
(2) 20 percent of the fines collected for State budget on State technical supervision for infringement of the law: to use the national technical supervision authorities, technical support, development and paid for contracts, but five percent of the State technical supervision authorities of social protection and to the stimulus material.
(3) State technical supervisory authority employees may not enter into transactions to take another civil obligations or to receive reimbursement for services from the possessor of dangerous equipment, from companies to companies and institutions in which the dangerous equipment that also from the natural or legal persons who designed, manufactured, assembled, operated, repaired or upgraded equipment, carry out the dangerous maintenance, testing or inspection.
12. article. The fee for the registration of hazardous installations and the annual fee for the hazardous equipment (1) the fee for registration of dangerous equipment and the annual fee for the hazardous equipment determined by the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia. The fee for the registration of hazardous installations and the annual fee payable for the equipment of the dangerous State budget.
(2) the possessor of dangerous equipment exempted from annual fees on dangerous devices if it with physical or legal person that is a national technical supervision authority issued license dangerous equipment or expertise to perform the checks, has entered into an agreement on inspection of dangerous equipment or carrying out the examination year.
(3) the fee for registration of dangerous equipment and the annual fee for the determination of hazardous facilities, as a percentage of the initial book value of equipment under the repricing rates. The annual fee for the hazardous equipment after five years ' service for each year of the dangerous operation of magnifying, 10 percent in comparison with the toll on an analogue of new equipment.
(4) If a hazardous installation is operated without a full year or if the agreement on dangerous equipment tests or examinations of the performance concluded for less than one year, the annual fees in proportion to the total. If the danger of the operation stopped the State technical supervisory authority, the annual fee payable for the period in which the dangerous operation was stopped.
(5) For payment of the annual dues time delay State financial inspection authorities levied fines in State budget-0.3 percent of the dues amount for each delayed day.
(6) 80 percent of the fees for the registration of dangerous equipment and the annual fees for the use of dangerous equipment State technical supervisory authorities.
13. article. Liability for violation of this law and damages (1) holders of dangerous equipment in accordance with the procedure prescribed by law is responsible for the operation of dangerous equipment without registration, on dangerous equipment the staff was not training or inadequate training, technical supervision of State legislation and documentation of hazardous equipment operating in non-compliance, the State technical supervision authorities, the statement of requirements, not on dangerous equipment not requiring regular checks for non-reporting on dangerous equipment accidents.
(2) natural and legal persons, which designed, manufactured, assembled, operated, repaired or upgraded equipment, carry out the dangerous maintenance, inspection or an inspection, in accordance with the procedure laid down in the law, is responsible for national technical regulations and monitoring of dangerous equipment operational documentation requirements, as well as on the work out without State technical supervisory authority license.
(3) the State technical supervision authorities and their employees, as well as natural or legal persons with which the possessor of dangerous equipment has entered into an agreement about its tests or examinations, in accordance with the procedure laid down in the law, responsibility for the crashes, which occurred because these individuals, institutions or their employees is not this law, the time limit laid down in article 5 done in testing or inspection, if there was a request for such examination or inspection.
(4) a State supervisory authority technical staff responsible for the disclosure of trade secrets law.

(5) national technical supervision officers who become aware of State technical supervision and violation of the laws which are not given in order to prevent these violations, responding to the laws of the Republic of Latvia.
(6) the Loss incurred by enterprises, companies, institutions and organisations of the dangerous equipment design, manufacturing, maintenance, repair, upgrading, maintenance, testing or inspection results, pay the natural or legal person who has carried out the work.
(7) State technical supervisory authority, as well as the natural or legal persons with which the possessor of dangerous equipment has entered into an agreement about its tests or examinations carried out in accordance with the procedure prescribed by law to pay the damages incurred by the companies, firms, organisations and institutions of this Act within the time limits laid down in article 5 do not dangerous equipment testing or inspection. State technical supervisory authority to pay the losses incurred in the operation of dangerous equipment due to the undue suspension.
(8) State technical supervisory authority to pay the losses incurred because of the projects is not the dangerous equipment considered this law, within the time limits laid down in article 5.
14. article. Transnational contracts and the application of the provisions of the international conventions (1) where the Republic of Latvia concluded contract of trans-national or International Convention, which is a Member State of the Republic of Latvia, the hazardous equipment provided for monitoring provisions contrary to this law, applicable international treaties or international conventions.
(2) State technical supervisory authority may enter into agreements with foreign and international institutions and organisations for cooperation in the field of technical supervision.
The Republic of Latvia Supreme Council Chairman a. GORBUNOV of the Republic of Latvia Supreme Council Secretary i. DAUDIŠ 1993 in Riga on March 30.