Overtaken by Federal Law 17.7.99 N 176-FZ RUSSIAN FEDERATION FEDERAL LAW On postal service Adopted by the State Duma 5 July 1995 This Federal Law sets the basis OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Local Government, other participants in the field of postal service, also regulates legal relations arising between postal organizations and users of postal services. This Federal Law is aimed at ensuring the constitutional rights of citizens of the Russian Federation to transmit, receive and disseminate information. CHAPTER I. GENERAL PROVISIONS Article 1. Key concepts For the purposes of this Federal Act, the following basic terms are used: mail connection-reception, handling, carriage and delivery of mail and postal and telegraphic transfers of money The postal service of the Russian Federation is an integral part of the unified postal service of the Russian Federation, which is open to all citizens (individuals) and legal entities and whose services cannot be refused; international mail exchange between Postal communication organizations under the jurisdiction of different States; organization of postal services-legal entities regardless of their legal and organizational forms and forms of ownership Postal services; postal services-separate units of postal organizations (post offices, railway stations, rail stations and airports, postal exchange offices). post offices, post office, postal service, post office Links and others); the mail network is a collection of mail and mail routes; Mail Communications Tools, and mail transport used to provide mail services; mail-local and out-of-town letters and mail cards, parcels and packages, parcels, mail containers, printed publications in the relevant package; written correspondence-mail in the form of Simple and recorded letters, postcards, parcels and small packages; distribution of printed publications-subscription, processing orders for printed publications, forwarding, shipping and delivery of printed publications; postal code is a conditional numeric value for the mailing address; The mailing and reception of mail items; public postage stamps and other signs for postage and confirmations of postal services; { \b } { \b Application } { \b } { \b the stamp of the name of the mail item, the date of receipt and delivery of the mail; secret of correspondence, telephone conversations, postal, telegraphic and other communications; mailbox -a box of uniforms and size for the collection of letters and postcards; P.O. Box, a special cabinet with boxes installed in residential buildings, as well as a rural area for delivery to receive mail; porcabino The item is a special cabinet designed for temporary storage of mail at the delivery site or for receiving mail; the postal service is a product of reception, processing, transportation, and delivery of postage, postal and telegraphic transfers of money; universal services-postal services for reception, processing, transportation and delivery of written correspondence, postal and telegraphic transfers of money -funds; tariffs for these services are regulated by law of the Russian Federation. Article 2: Mail communication assignment The postal service in the Russian Federation is carried out by State enterprises and postal services, and other postal organizations are intended for Provision of postal services to citizens, the State authorities of the Russian Federation, the State authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, local authorities and legal entities. Article 3. Russian legislation on postal relations The relations in the field of postal communication in the Russian Federation are regulated by this Federal Law, Federal Law " Communications", other federal laws and legal acts of the Russian Federation, the laws and other legal acts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Legal acts on the organizational and technical arrangements for the sustainable operation of postal networks, as well as for the operation of postal facilities issued in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation The federal executive authority in the field of postal communication is compulsory for all postal organizations under the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation. Article 4. Types of postal communication in the Russian Federation In the Russian Federation: public postal services carried out by State enterprises and postal services, and other postal organizations Communications; special liaison of the federal executive authority in the field of communications; federal assistant-courier; Field-Hungarian-postal system of the federal executive authority in the field of defence. Article 5. The management of postal activities State Enterprise and Postal Services, whose property is in federal ownership, is carried out by the Commissioner of the Federal Republic of the Federal Republic of Korea by the executive branch of the Postal Service, the Federal Postal Service. The Federal Postal Service is part of the unified system of federal executive authorities in the field of communications and has the right to establish its own territorial bodies. State enterprises and postal services established on the basis of property located in federal property are the organizations of the Federal Postal Service. The Federal Postal Service ensures the implementation of the state policy in the area of postal communications and implements the general regulation of postal organizations in the Russian Federation. The organizational and legal status of the federal postal service is determined by the President of the Russian Federation. The Government of the Russian Federation approves the Federal Postal Service Regulation. Article 6. The principles of postal activities Activities in the field of postal services in the Russian Federation are based on: Legality; availability of postal services for all physical and legal entities persons; respect for the rights and interests of users of postal services; freedom of mail and transit of mail throughout the territory of the Russian Federation; equality of rights of citizens (individuals) and legal entities to participate in and use the postal service { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } Results { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \b } The postal territory under the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation; to ensure the sustainability of the postal network and its manageability; unity of standards, as well as other requirements of technical and economic policy in the field OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Article 7. Ensuring the availability and quality of postal services The main guarantees for the availability and quality of postal services are: providing postal services in the territory of the Russian Federation with equal rights of access to Mail communication services for all users of the postal service; Work of the Federal Postal Service in a mode consistent with local government and user friendly { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } Mail { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 Postal services provided by postal organizations that meet the requirements of users of postal services; Maintenance and Development of the Federal Postal Service. Article 8. Exclusive rights of the Mail Communications Federal Service { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } Federal Mail Service { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } Communications in the territory of the Russian Federation, as well as the manufacture and use of personal items for the organizations of the Federal Postal Service. The Federal postal service establishes samples, the dignity and duration of state postal signs, determines their circulation and subjects, organizes the publication and distribution of state postal signs. Article 9. Universal Postal Service The Federal Postal Service provides universal postal services in the territory of the Russian Federation. Article 10. Contractual services for postal services. Federal postal service organizations provide, on a contractual basis, the reception, processing, transportation and issuance of parcels, mail containers, distribution of publications, delivery and payment of pensions, benefits and other payments Targeted appointments, telephone calls and reception and transmission services, carry out securities, receive and collect cash receipts, pay for utility bills and perform other activities, OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION The activities of postal associations are licensed. Licences for postal activities, as well as certificates for postal services and postal services are issued by the federal executive authority in the field of communications under the laws of the Russian Federation. Article 11. The Office of the Communications Network under Emergency situations Managing the Post Office in Emergency Situations is implemented in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation by the federal executive body The authorities in the field of communication in cooperation with the Federal Postal Service, the Communications Management Centres of the Government, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the federal executive authorities in the field of civil defence, disaster relief and management of natural disasters and other The federal executive authorities, which maintain the means of postal communication. The State authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and the local authorities are assisting organizations of the Federal Postal Service in dealing with emergency situations. Chapter II. IN THE FIELD OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN THE FIELD OF COMMUNICATION LINKAGE Article 12. The property of postal service of the Russian Federation may be located in federal property, property of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, municipal property and property of legal entities. The postal organizations, regardless of their organizational and legal form and form of ownership, are provided with postal facilities, land, access roads and other property, property and non-property rights to property, leases, OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION The property of State enterprises and institutions of the federal postal service, including postal and postal communications networks, is a federal property and is not subject to privatization. The property of federal postal service organizations in federal property is owned by such organizations on the basis of contracts for economic management or operational management or lease agreements, OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION In order to provide postal services, postal services can be used by individuals and legal entities on a contractual basis. Article 13. State support for postal services The State provides economic support services to organizations of the federal postal service through: capital investment in the creation and development of production, transport and social infrastructure of postal service; provide financial and logistical support for the development and functioning of the postal service; Credit, tax and other benefits. Specific measures on financial, logistical and other economic support for postal activities are determined by the legislation of the Russian Federation, laws and other normative legal acts of entities of the Russian Federation. In some cases, the state can provide economic support to other postal organizations. Article 14. Funding for the activities of the federal Postal Service { { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \field { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \field Postal Services of the Federal Postal Service; federal budget funds; funds derived from other legally authorized activities, as well as contractual services provided for in the of this Federal Act. Article 15. Investment activities in the area of postal connection Investments in postal development are carried out in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on investment activities. The decisions on public investment in postal development are taken on the basis of federal postal development programs in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Russian Federation. Federal postal service programs are developed by the Federal Postal Service, taking into account the proposals of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and approved by the Government of the Russian Federation. Article 16. The post-monopolistic policy on postal services in the Russian Federation is implemented in accordance with the policy of demonopolization and development of competition. Postal services that dominate the market for postal services, with the exception of the provision of universal services, and the taking of actions that may or may not result Substantial restrictions of competition, infringement of the interests of other natural and legal persons, establishment and maintenance of a shortage of postal services or raising tariffs on them, are liable in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation. THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Specified responsibility is due to: exemption from mail communications; unnecessary termination of mail service provision; concluding service market contracts Postal or competition restrictions; create other obstacles to the expansion of the postal market. Federal Communications Authority, the Federal Postal Service, in cooperation with the Federal Anti-Monopoly Authority, promotes and maintains fair competition in the provision of postal services OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Article 17. Tariffs for postal services Tariffs for services provided by postal organizations are established on a contractual basis. The tariffs for universal postal services are regulated by Russian legislation. The Government of the Russian Federation determines the procedure for reimbursement to organizations of postal income lost due to the use of regulated and reduced tariffs. State authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation may establish regulated and preferential tariffs with reimbursement of lost revenues to organizations of postal service from the budgets of the respective constituent entities of the Russian Federation. THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Chapter III. THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, THE UNITED NATIONS BODIES, AND THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION MANOSTATIONS OF THE ORGANIZATIONS OF THE SEARCH AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS Article 18. The placement of postal services State authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local self-government bodies assist postal organizations and their employees in the provision of services the mail. In the design and development of cities and other settlements, residential areas and complexes, separate buildings, structures, including residential buildings, the State authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation are obliged to provide for The construction of buildings for postal services is in accordance with the regulations. State authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local self-government bodies are obliged to provide the organization of postal services to rent separate premises in existing (or under construction) residential or other buildings, OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION The organization of the postal service has the right to place postal services according to technological standards at auto, railway stations, airports, seaports and river ports. Land for construction of buildings and structures for railway stations, offices of mail transport at road, railway stations, airports, sea, river ports and wharkies shall be made directly proximity to the station building, and to the construction of city post offices and postal services-in the central part of the city, providing conditions for the exchange of mail, delivered by cars, mail cars, aircraft, sea and river The courts. Post office cabinets are installed on the first floors of multi-storey buildings by building organizations. The cost of purchasing and installing subscriber mail cabinets is included in the estimates for the construction of these houses. Maintenance of the post office cabinets is carried out by the housing and maintenance organizations, owners or owners of houses. Delivery of mail to organizations located in multi-storey buildings is delivered to the post offices of the team sites installed by these organizations on the first floors of the buildings. The installation and maintenance of such cabinets are carried out by mail recipients. Federations of the federal postal service have the right to place mailboxes on the walls of residential and administrative buildings, in other places convenient for the collection of letters and postcards. Article 19. The State provides social protection to employees of organizations of the federal postal service. Labour relations, including those providing for guarantees and compensation for employees of the federal postal service, are regulated by the legislation of the Russian Federation, the normative legal acts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, and OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION The postmen of the Federal Postal Service are entitled to free travel in all types of urban passenger transport (except taxis) and in rural areas also on public road transport (except taxis) of suburban and interurban traffic. Reimbursement for this purpose is made by means of the organizations of the Federal Postal Service. The executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local authorities provide offices of the federal postal service with office accommodation. " Employees of the organizations of the federal service of postal service who work and live in rural areas are provided in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation. Article 20. The use of vehicles for the transport of mail Organization of the postal service is granted the right of contract terms to transport postal items along all routes and lines of the road. rail, air, sea and river transport, accompanied by postal workers, or transfer of specified shipments for transport to the responsibility of transport organizations. No transport organization may refuse to enter into a contract for the carriage of postal items on the regular intercity and international routes of its vehicles if the proposed terms of the contract are not caused the loss of the transport organization. The Federal Executive in the field of railway transport, in accordance with the contract, arranges for the carriage of the postal-baggage trains, includes postal wagons in the trains and passenger trains and provides reception For loading and unloading vehicles on the platform, convenient for loading and unloading. The vehicles of the Federal Postal Service have distinctive marks-a white diagonal stripe and the message "Mail". These vehicles are entitled to unimpeded access to all the streets of settlements and roads in the Russian Federation, as well as fuel outside the queue, along with the vehicles of the operational and special services. The transport of postal items, as well as the employees accompanying postal items, are not subject to licensing by the federal postal service. The vehicles of the federal postal service organizations cannot be used to provide services and work outside the postal service without the consent of these organizations. The transport of postal items, as well as the workers accompanying the mail, on permanent and temporary transfer through rivers, canals and water bodies shall be made out of the queue. The expenses for this purpose are reimbursed at the expense of the organizations of the Federal Postal Service. CHAPTER IV. Rights to USERS ' USERS Article 21. The rights of users of postal services Natural and legal persons have an equal right to use postal services in the territory of the Russian Federation. Organization of the postal service should be equipped with the necessary technological equipment and mechanization tools, to have access to information about fares, rules of communication, and deadlines for users of postal services. Mail forwarding, operation mode, and other information that facilitates access to mail services. Users of postal services have the right to free access to information about their rights, services, fares, dates of mail forwarding, and to annual reports on the activities of postal organizations Communications. The mail service providers inform users of mail services about their activities through the media, take into account in the practical work of the proposals of these users aimed at improving their service. Organization of postal services for information about their activities, new services, cutting-edge technological advances and postal technology have the right to prepare and distribute advertising messages in accordance with OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION The rights of users of postal services are protected by this Federal Act, the Federal Law "On Communications", and Civil Rights. OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Article 22. Secret of Communications The secret of correspondence, telephone conversations, postal, telegraphic and other communications is protected by the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Information on mail, telephone, telegraphic and other communications, as well as the dispatching (s) themselves, may be issued only to senders and recipients or their legal representatives. Delay, inspection and seizure of postage and documentary correspondence, telephone tapping and communication of telecommunication messages, as well as other restrictions on the confidentiality of communications are permitted only on the basis of judicial proceedings. solutions. All postal organizations are obliged to ensure the secrecy of communications. Officials and other persons, employees of postal organizations who have committed violations of these provisions are held accountable in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Russian Federation. Article 23. The postal items of the mail system of the Organization are obliged to ensure the security of the accepted mail and money. Facilities that handle mail and cash management should be equipped with the necessary equipment and facilities for safety and fire alarm. Automobiles, postal wagons, aircraft, sea and river vessels carrying mail and money shall be so equipped as to exclude the possibility of access by unauthorized persons. The organization of the postal service has the right to have a postal security unit and appropriate means of protection. { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \b } Responsibility for violation of the law in implementation of activities in the field of postal service Federal executive authorities, executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, local authorities of the Russian Federation, the organization of the postal service and the organization of the postal service that permitted the activity in the field of postal communication of violation of this Federal Law, other federal laws, and other legal acts of the Russian Federation. OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Article 25. Responsibility of postal organizations and their employees is responsible to users of postal services for loss, damage, non-delivery or delay in delivery of mail OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Federal postal service organizations are required to ensure that users of mail are delivered in writing within the prescribed deadline. The frequency of the collection of written correspondence from the mailboxes, the exchange, transportation and delivery, as well as the deadlines for the delivery of written correspondence are being developed by the Federal Postal Service and approved by the Government of the Russian Federation. THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Postal services are obliged to provide information to users of postal services about the standards and deadlines for delivery of written correspondence at the first request. In the event of loss or damage of a post with a declared value, the consignor or the consignee shall be entitled to compensation for lost or damaged mail in an amount corresponding to the declared value. The amount of property liability for failure or improper performance of postal services by organizations to receive, process, transport and deliver other registered mail is determined by the law of the Russian Federation. The organization of the postal service shall not be liable for loss, damage, non-delivery or delay in the delivery of mail, if any, as a result of force majeure or property of mail attachment. The law of the Russian Federation and the international treaties of the Russian Federation regulate the issues of liability for loss and damage to international mail. For loss or delay in delivery of mail, indelivery or damage of mail attachments, non-delivery of periodicals, cash shortage of employees of federal postal service organizations The damage is caused by the material liability in accordance with the procedure provided for in the legislation on labour of the Russian Federation. Article 26. { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } Federal Mail Service { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \field { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \field { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \b } The contents of which endanger the health and life of employees of the organization of postal communications or of third parties if the hazard cannot be corrected in another way. The Government of the Russian Federation sets out the list of items prohibited for transmission through the postal network, as well as the procedure for their removal and destruction. Users of postal services are liable under the laws of the Russian Federation for damage caused by other mail or employees who are engaged in processing and resulting from the investment specified users to mail items that are prohibited from being forwarded or improper packaging of the attachment. Persons responsible for spoilage of mailboxes, mail filing cabinets, postage wardrobe, theft, destruction or damage to mail, and persons responsible for causing damage to vehicles, property and The other equipment of the postal service organizations is responsible in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation. Article 27. Accountability for the counterfeiting, use, or release of forged public signs of postage payment and name Persons found guilty of manufacture for the purpose of marketing or selling knowingly false public goods In accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, the signs of postal payment and the name of the belongings are liable. Article 28. Procedure for submitting claims and claims Upon default or improper performance of the obligation to provide postal services, the user of postal services within six months from the date of delivery of the mail is entitled The Panel is of the view that in the context of The Claims shall be made in writing and shall be subject to mandatory registration in the prescribed manner and shall be reviewed within the time limits provided for by the Federal Law " About link". Claims and claims can be filed by mail organizations both at the point of reception and at the place of destination. The Claims for the search for international mail are accepted and are dealt with in a manner and time frame provided by the Russian Federation's legislation and the international treaties to which the Russian Federation is a party. Article 29. Reparation for injury Compensation for damage caused by postal activities shall be made voluntarily or by a decision of a court or arbitral tribunal in accordance with the procedure established by the law of the Russian Federation. Chapter VI: { \field { \field { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \cs6\f1\cf6\lang1024 } { \b } } { \b } Use of languages and alphabets in the activity under Russian legislation throughout the territory of the Russian Federation in organizations of postal service The Office of the President of the Russian Federation shall be the official language of the Russian Federation. The address of the consignor and the consignee of mail sent within the territory of the Russian Federation shall be made in Russian. The addresses of the sender and the recipient of mail sent within the territory of the republics of the Russian Federation may be issued in the official language of the respective republic within the Russian Federation, subject to repetition In the case of sender and recipient addresses in Russian. International mail is processed in languages defined in accordance with the international treaties of the Russian Federation. Article 31. Accounting time in the field of postal services When carrying out activities in the field of postal communication in process processes in the organization of postal communication, irrespective of their location in the territory of the Russian Federation unified accounting time is Moscow. In international mail, the accounting time is determined on the basis of the international treaties of the Russian Federation. Chapter VII. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION Article 32. International cooperation International cooperation in postal communications shall be carried out in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation and international treaties of the Russian Federation. Relations in the provision of international postal services are governed by the international treaties of the Russian Federation, including within the framework of the Universal Postal Union. In the international postal service, the Federal Postal Service acts as the postal administration of the Russian Federation and within the limits of the powers defined by the Government of the Russian Federation. and protects the interests of the Russian Federation in the field of postal communications in cooperation with the postal administrations of other countries in international organizations. Chapter VIII. ENTRY IN THE FORMS OF THIS FEDERAL LAW Article 33. Entry into force of this Federal Law 1. This law shall enter into force on the date of its official publication. 2. Invite the President of the Russian Federation to bring his legal acts into conformity with this Federal Law. 3. To instruct the Government of the Russian Federation: bring its legal acts into line with this Federal Law; to prepare and submit to the State Duma within three months, in due course OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION President of the Russian Federation Yeltsin Moscow, Kremlin 9 August 1995 N 129-FZ