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On Amendments And Additions To The Federal Act "on Operational Investigative Activities"

Original Language Title: О внесении изменений и дополнений в Федеральный закон "Об оперативно-розыскной деятельности"

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RUSSIAN FEDERATION FEDERAL LAW On Amendments and Additions to Federal Law "On operational-search activities" Adopted by the State Duma 4 December 1998 Article 1. Amend the Federal Law "On Investigative Activities" (Assembly of Laws of the Russian Federation, 1995, N 33, Art. 3349) the following changes and additions: 1. In article 5: , supplement a new part one of the following content: " Authorities (officials) conducting operational and investigative activities should ensure respect for the rights of the police A person and a citizen with respect to privacy, personal and family secret, inviolability of the home and correspondence. "; 2. In article 6, paragraph 1, the word "nationals" should be deleted. 3. The first part of article 8, paragraph 1, should read: " Conduct search operations that limit the constitutional rights of a person and a citizen to the confidentiality of correspondence, telephone conversations, postal services, telegraphic and other communications transmitted via electrical and postal networks, as well as the right to inviolability of the home, are permitted on the basis of a judicial decision and if information is available: ". 4. Part four of article 12, as follows: " Operational documents reflecting the results of operational investigative activities shall be submitted to the court (judge), the prosecutor responsible for the supervision of legality "The investigative activities, the investigator and the body conducting the initial inquiry, the production of which is a criminal case, to other investigative bodies, in the order and in the cases, which are established by this Federal Law." 5. Article 21 should read as follows: " Article 21. Prosecutorial supervision is carried out by the Procurator-General of the Russian Federation and its authorized procurators. At the request of the said prosecutors, the heads of intelligence agencies submit operational records, including operational records, to them Operational and investigative measures, as well as accounting records and departmental regulations governing the conduct of operational and investigative activities. Information on persons deployed in organized criminal groups, on the unspoken officers of the investigative bodies, as well as on persons assisting these bodies on a confidential basis, shall be submitted to the respective prosecutors only with the written consent of the persons listed, except in cases where they are required to be held criminally responsible. The Prosecutors referred to in part one of this article shall protect the information contained in the documents and materials submitted. Failure to comply with the legal requirements of the prosecutor arising out of its powers of oversight of operative-search activities shall entail legal liability. ". Article 2. This Federal Act shall enter into force. since its official publication. President of the Russian Federation B. Yeltsin Moscow, Kremlin 5 January 1999 N 6-FZ