Ministerial Decree No.1236 regarding validation of the Regulation on the modalities of carrying out State Sanitary Inspection

On Approval Of Regulation On Exercising The State Sanitary Inspection In The Republic Of Belarus The Council Of Ministers Of The Republic Of Belarus Resolution № 1236 of August 10, 2000 (Decision contains all the later amendments and additions. Last amendments of this Decision: Decision of the Government of the Republic of Belarus № 1318 of August 20, 1998) For the purpose of realization of the Law of the Republic of Belarus dated of May 23, 2000 "On Introduction of Amendments and Alterations to the Law of the Republic of Belarus "On Sanitary and Epidemic Well-Being of the Population" the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus decrees: 1. To approve the attached Regulations on Exercising the State Sanitary Inspection in the Republic of Belarus. 2. The Ministry of Health shall work out and approve the regulations on wearing the uniform by the workers of the sanitary quarantine posts. 3. To recognize to be invalid the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus dated of August 31, 1994 № 36 "On Approving of the Regulation on Exercising the State Sanitary Inspection in the Republic of Belarus". Approved by the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus № 1236 of August 10, 2000 Regulation on Exercising the State Sanitary Inspections in the Republic of Belarus 1. The state sanitary inspection - the activity of the authorised state bodies and establishments (further – bodies and establishments exercising the state sanitary inspection), oriented to prophylaxis of illnesses by means of prevention, detection and suppression of sanitary and epidemiological legislation infringements. 2. Bodies and establishments exercising the state sanitary inspection shall be the part of the system of the Ministry of Health and in its activity shall follow the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus, the Law of the Republic of Belarus "On Sanitary and Epidemic Well-Being of the Population" and other acts of legislation of the Republic of Belarus. 3. The main tasks of the state sanitary inspection in the Republic of Belarus shall be: exercising the supervision under observance by natural persons and legal persons the sanitary and epidemic legislation, sanitary norms, rules and hygienic standards (further – sanitary rules) and also under organisation and conducting by them the measures on preventing and reduction of sickness rate of the population; preparing and introducing in the established order to the relevant state bodies proposals on fulfilment of sanitary and epidemiological legislation, sanitary rules and providing the sanitary and epidemic protection of the population; realisation of measures on prophylaxis of illnesses by means of prevention, detection and suppression of sanitary and epidemiological legislation and sanitary rules infringements; organisation of the state sanitary and epidemiological rating of factors of biosphere, state hygienic registration and regulation of chemical and biological substances and goods made from them and also products of industrial and technical purpose, goods for personal (every day) needs, food products; securing in the established order of consideration of issues on health protection of the population in connection with the influence on the human being of negative factors of biosphere and conditions of life activity; conducting of social and hygienic monitoring of the quality of environment and state of health of the population; hygienic teaching and education of the population with a view to forming habits and need in healthy mode of living. 4. The head of the system of bodies and establishments exercising the state sanitary inspectors shall be the Deputy Minister of Health of the Republic of Belarus – the Chief State Sanitary Doctor (further – the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Republic of Belarus). The system of bodies and establishments of the Ministry of Health that constitute the state sanitary inspectors shall consist of: organisation division of the Ministry of Health managing the issues of the state sanitary inspection; Republican, oblast, Minsk City, city, regional, regional in city, zone centers of hygiene and epidemiology; Republican and oblast centers of prophylaxis of AIDS; centers of desinfection and sterilisation, centers and other divisions of prophylactic desinfection; Republican, oblast and city centers of health; scientific and research, scientific and practical establishments and state enterprises of hygienic and epidemiological profile of the Ministry of Health. The chief doctors of oblast, Minsk City, city, regional, regions in city centers of hygiene and epidemiology shall be in the same time the Chief State Sanitary Doctors of the corresponding administrative territories. The zone centers of hygiene and epidemiology in case of need shall be created by the decisions of the Chief State Sanitary Doctors of oblasts on the base of large city and regional centers of hygiene and epidemiology for more effective use of staff and laboratory equipment, rendering organisational and methodical, technical and other help to other centers of hygiene and epidemiology. 5. Departmental sanitary inspection over securing the sanitary and epidemic protection in troops or units of the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Committee of State Security, the State Committee of Frontier Troops, in organisations and/on units of the Belarusian Railway, and also in organisations and in units of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Belarus shall be conducted by their sanitary and epidemiological establishments, divisions and officials under methodical supervision of bodies and establishments of the state sanitary inspection. The chief sanitary doctors of bodies and establishments conducting departmental sanitary inspection according to their functional duties shall be the deputies of the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Republic of Belarus on issues followed under their competence. 6. The Deputy Minister of Health of the Republic of Belarus – the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Republic of Belarus shall be appointed and dismissed of his post by the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on concordance with the President of the Republic of Belarus. Duties of the Fist Deputy of the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Republic of Belarus shall be entrusted to the deputy of the chief of the organisation division of the Ministry of Health managing the issues of the state sanitary inspection. Duties of the deputies of the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Republic of Belarus shall entrusted to the deputy chief of the organisation division of the Ministry of Health managing issues of the state sanitary inspection, chiefs of the republican establishment exercising organisational and methodical provision of the state sanitary inspection and the republican establishment managing issues of the AIDS prophylaxis. The Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Republic of Belarus can empower the deputies of the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Republic of Belarus, the chiefs of other organisation divisions on some matters of exercising the state sanitary inspection. Empowering the deputy of the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Republic of Belarus shall be made by the decision of the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Republic of Belarus. The chief state sanitary doctors of oblasts, Minsk city, cities, regions and regions in cities shall be appointed and dismissed of their posts by the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Republic of Belarus with the concordance with corresponding local executive and administrative bodies. 7. For collective consideration of the issues of securing the sanitary and epidemic protection of the population the sanitary and epidemiological councils under the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Republic of Belarus and the chief sanitary doctors of oblasts and Minsk city shall be created on a voluntary basis. The corresponding chief state sanitary doctors shall approve the composition of these councils and regulations on them. The chiefs of the republican bodies in question of state administration and other organisations can be invited to meetings of the councils. 8. The Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Republic of Belarus and his deputies according to the objectives of the state sanitary inspectors shall: 8.1. introduce the proposals to the relevant state bodies on the basic directions of the state activity in the field of securing sanitary and epidemic protection of the population; 8.2. manage the work of the bodies and establishments exercising the state sanitary inspection in the Republic of Belarus; 8.3. organise the check-up of fulfilment of the acts of legislation of the Republic of Belarus on issues of securing sanitary and epidemic protection of the population, inform in the established order the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus, local executive and administrative bodies on this issues and in case of need introduce for their consideration proposals on solving the existing problems; 8.4. organise the working out, approve, carry into effect and cancel sanitary rules; 8.5. organise measures on sanitary protection of the territory of the Republic of Belarus from infection and dissemination of quarantine and other contagious illnesses; 8.6. organise the state sanitary inspectors under observance the norms of radiation safety and also sanitary rules at dealing with the sources of ionising radiation, secure the participation of sanitary and epidemiological service in liquidation of medical consequences of the Chernobyl disaster; 8.7. introduce to the bodies of state administration proposals on top-priority order of conducting necessary sanitary and hygienic and anti-epidemic measures at natural disasters, accidents on industrial enterprises, railway, water, air and automobile transport and in other branches of national economy, and also participate in control under fulfilment of them; 8.8. considerate and decides on introduced for consideration projects of normative documentation (standards, technical conditions, compounding, technological regulations etc.) on raw material, production, technological processes and equipment, and also building and other norms and rules on kinds of works that can influence on the health of population; 8.9. give permissions on application of new chemical and biological substances, products and methods at production and processing of food products, and also regulators of the growth of the agricultural plants and animals, chemical and biological means of plants protection, polymeric materials and plastic masses, other chemical products and physical factors; 8.10. concord projects of norms of designing, application of new technologies, kinds of production, materials, substances, educational and working commitment of children and teenagers; 8.11. organise inspectorate under observance of demands of sanitary rules at designing, building and reconstruction of objects; 8.12. organise conducting and coordination of scientific researches on topical questions of securing the sanitary and epidemic protection of the population and activity of the bodies and establishments exercising the state sanitary inspection; 8.13. coordinate and control over the activity of bodies and establishments of health on securing the sanitary and epidemic protection of the population; 8.14. interact with ministries, other republican bodies of state administration and organisations of the Republic of Belarus in the part of securing by them the sanitary and epidemic protection, on issues of exercised by them departmental sanitary inspection and industrial sanitary control; 8.15. organise interaction with the bodies and establishments of sanitary inspectors and other analogous bodies and establishments of other states, and also corresponding international organisations; 8.16. approve and carry into effect methods of conducting measurements and researches being applied in practice of the state sanitary inspection. 9. The Chief State Sanitary Doctors of oblasts, cities, regions, regions in cities and their deputies according to the objectives of the state sanitary inspectors shall: 9.1. exercise the check-up of fulfillment of acts of legislation of the Republic of Belarus on issues of securing the sanitary and epidemic protection of the population, inform in the established order the local executive and administrative bodies on these issues, in case of need introduce for consideration proposals on solving existing problems; 9.2. conduct preparation of local programs on securing the sanitary and epidemic protection of the population; 9.3. control within the bounds of their competence at extraordinary situations the fulfillment of sanitary and hygienic and anti-epidemic measures directed on prevention of appearance and spreading of contagious and other illnesses, sanitary protection of the territory; 9.4. carry out arrangements on hygienic education and training of the population, forming the health style of life and coordinate this work on the administrative territory; 9.5. secure the state sanitary inspection over observance of sanitary rules at: providing with lands for building, planning and building up the settlements, perspective planning of allocation of industrial objects, planning, building and reconstruction of the buildings, constructions of organizations and changing of their side views and technology of production and also putting into operation dwelling houses, production and common buildings, apartments of children’s, medical and prophylactic establishments, educational establishments, establishments of sanitary and consumer services, culture, sport and other buildings and constructions, technological and other equipment; organization of conditions of upbringing, education, work, rest and making healthy children and teenagers; planning, building and exploitation of domestic and drinking water pipes, reservoirs for cultural, domestic and sanitary purposes, and also objects being the source of pollution of free air, soil and reservoirs, harmful physical factors; exploitation of industrial and public buildings, apartments of children’s, medical and prophylactic establishments, educational establishments, establishments of sanitary and consumer services, culture, sport and other buildings and constructions, technological and other equipment, hauling units; production and realization of goods for personal (common) needs and products of production and technical purpose, including children’s assortment; production, storage and transportation of food products, technological equipment for their production and further culinary processing, production of package, crockery, package materials and also at realization of food stuff and food products; production, storage, application, transportation and burial of radioactive substances, other sources of ionizing radiation, and also high toxic substances, chemical and biological means of plants protection; conducting the arrangements on prevention and liquidation of pollution of surface and underground waters, being used for drinking and every day common needs of the population, soil, free air by harmful production ejections, wastes of production and consumption; conducting the arrangements on carrying out the works with sources of non ionizing radiation and other harmful physical influences (noise, vibration etc.). The heads of establishments exercising the state sanitary inspection, - the chief sanitary doctors of oblasts and Minsk city consider and take decisions on introduced for the concordance drafts of normative documentation within the bounds of authorities determined by the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Republic of Belarus and his (her) deputies. 10. Bodies and establishments of the state sanitary inspection can realize other functions provided by the legislation. 11. Decisions and conclusions of the bodies and establishments of the state sanitary inspection shall be compulsory for execution by all natural persons and legal persons and are to be bring to the notice of executors in form of decisions, prescriptions, plan targets, letters and other documents arranged in the established order. 12. Financing, material and technical provision of bodies and establishments exercising the state sanitary inspectors are made from the republican budget and other sources in accordance with the legislation. 13. Preparation, improvement, attestation of doctors, medium medical personnel and other specialists of bodies and establishments exercising the state sanitary inspectors are conducted in order established by the Ministry of Health. 14. Specialists of sanitary quarantine units shall have the right to wear uniform of the established standard and to have official decoration. 15. Officials exercising the state sanitary inspection shall have the right to wear breastplate with indication of the surname, name and patronymic name, position and the name of organization. 16. Bodies and establishments of the state sanitary inspection shall be legal persons. * unofficial translation *