IDENTIFICATION AND NOTIFICATION OF HAZARDOUS ACTIVITIES WITH THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE TRANSBOUNDARY EFFECTS
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Describe briefly the mechanism / arrangements that you have been using for the identification and notification of hazardous activities (please note that notification in questions 3 to 7 is NOT related to the event of an accident. For further information, please refer to art. 4 of the Convention and to the explanatory note in the guidelines to this document about the meaning of notification in this context). Please also provide information on the mechanism / arrangements to consult with neighbouring countries to assess whether a given hazardous installation would be inserted in the list of activities to be notified.
Reply from reporting round 2010-2011
Maintenance of the state register, licensing, expertise, declaration and certification are carried out in compliance with the applicable Law of the Azerbaijan Republic «Оn technical safety» and the Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Republic «On the approval of the list of potentially hazardous facilities» aimed at identifying hazardous types of activities. Technologies based on the unified software are used in hazardous production facilities.
Reply from reporting round 2012-2013
The Ministry of Emergency Situations ensures the implementation system and rules for monitoring and prognosis of emergency situations, information exchange rules within integrated state management system for prevention of emergency situations and elimination of their consequences, indicators related to the riskiness level of objects, classification and accounting of emergency situations, establishment of local warning system in the areas where the objects under threat are situated, realizes data collection and systematization, and organizes statistic accounting of the issues related to the field of the activities done by the Ministry of Emergency Situations according to its regulation.
The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources conducts the registration of the objects under threat and informs related authorities regarding it due to its regulation.
The law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on “Technical safety” identifies legal, economic and social principals of safe operation of the objects under threat, and regulates the performance of legal and physical persons who maintain the objects in prevention of the accidents that may happen in the objects and elimination of the results of accidents.
In order to develop technical safety declaration in production object of threat potential the law has identified allowed limit of dangerous substances.
It is mandatory to develop the statement for technical safety of the objects under threat separately on recruitment, use, recycle, storage, transportation, elimination of the substances and ionizing radiation sources addressed in the law.
Technical safety statement describes the activities addressed to overall assessment of the accident and its danger, the analyses on the sufficiency of the activities carried out for prevention of the accident, provision of the readiness of legal persons to operate the objects under threat, and to localize the accidents and eliminate the consequences, to reduction of the consequences of the accident and its damages.
Maintenance of the state register, licensing, expertise, declaration and certification are carried out in compliance with the applicable Law of the Azerbaijan Republic «Оn technical safety» and the Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Republic «On the approval of the list of potentially hazardous facilities» aimed at identifying hazardous types of activities. Technologies based on the unified software are used in hazardous production facilities.
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How many hazardous activities have been identified?
Reply from reporting round 2010-2011
10 (ten)
Reply from reporting round 2012-2013
10 (ten)
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Are these the same as in previous report? If no, please explain.
YES
Reply from reporting round 2010-2011
YES
Reply from reporting round 2012-2013
YES
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Indicate which Parties/countries have been notified:
Neighbouring Party/country
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Number of hazardous activities notified
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Inform whether your country held consultations
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Please indicate or describe:
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How successful is your identification or notification mechanism? And how successful is the mechanism for consultation with neighbouring countries?
Reply from reporting round 2010-2011
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Reply from reporting round 2012-2013
The objects allowed for the maintenance must be registered in the state register according to the rule on “Registration of the objects under threat in the state register”.
According to the rule state registration, licensing, examination, declaration and certification are applied for identification of dangerous activities.
The person who operates the object must submit the data on characterization of the object to the registration body with documenting them according to the requirements identified by the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the registration of the object in the state register.
The person who operates the object gets the statement about the registration of the object in the state register.
The data about the objects that were under threat in past and the persons operating these objects is collected with using integrated methodic and stored systematically.
The data on the objects is classified according to below classes: the characters of the objects that make them to be called as the objects with threat potential, action types requiring license for their implementation, management and territorial orientation of the objects.
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Any weaknesses recently identified in identification or notification of hazardous activities, e.g. through applying indicators and criteria (ECE/CP.TEIA/2010/6, Annex II and III)) and/or in the mechanism for consultation?
Reply from reporting round 2010-2011
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Reply from reporting round 2012-2013
Developing mechanisms for better coordination in this field, testing and transmission of information among relative organizations is necessary.
Əlaqədar qurumlar arasında bu istiqamətdə əlaqələndirmənin daha yaxşı aparılması, məlumatların yoxlan ılması və ötürülməsi üçün mexanizmlərin işlənilməsi vacibdir.
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Has your country taken any action in the last two years to improve the identification, notification of hazardous activities or consultation with neighbouring countries or are such actions being planned or considered?
Reply from reporting round 2010-2011
Decree of the Cabinet Of Ministers « On the approval of the list of potentially hazardous facilities» defines the policy of production, which is connected with purchasing,producing, processing, transportation and elimination of explosive and toxic substances, sources of ionizing and radioactive rays hazardous for environment and population as well as procurement of transport and social facilities.
The role of the Ministry of Emergency Situations as a coordinating body in the field of industrial safety has considerably increased. This is reflected in its status in the system of executive bodies which enables to exercise cross-sector coordination in the field of industrial safety as well as functional regulation in monitoring hazardous production facilities, including the currently operated and the new ones:
- creation of the state register of potentially hazardous production facilities;
-licensing activities connected with the use of potentially hazardous production facilities;
- expertise of industrial safety;
- declaring industrial safety;
- certification of technical equipment used at the hazardous production facilities;
- responsibility of enterprises and organizations for violating requirements of industrial safety.
- economic safety management by means of introducing obligatory liability risk insurance for organizations and enterprises operating hazardous production facilities..
Reply from reporting round 2012-2013
Decree of the Cabinet Of Ministers « On the approval of the list of potentially hazardous facilities» defines the policy of production, which is connected with purchasing,producing, processing, transportation and elimination of explosive and toxic substances, sources of ionizing and radioactive rays hazardous for environment and population as well as procurement of transport and social facilities.
The role of the Ministry of Emergency Situations as a coordinating body in the field of industrial safety has considerably increased. This is reflected in its status in the system of executive bodies which enables to exercise cross-sector coordination in the field of industrial safety as well as functional regulation in monitoring hazardous production facilities, including the currently operated and the new ones:
- creation of the state register of potentially hazardous production facilities;
-licensing activities connected with the use of potentially hazardous production facilities;
- expertise of industrial safety;
- declaring industrial safety;
- certification of technical equipment used at the hazardous production facilities;
- responsibility of enterprises and organizations for violating requirements of industrial safety.
- economic safety management by means of introducing obligatory liability risk insurance for organizations and enterprises operating hazardous production facilities..
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