Reference
The relevant directive was drafted by the Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief, in execution of Government Directive No. 1950-r of 11 November 2010 on approving the list of state programmes of the Russian Federation and in accordance with Government Resolution No. 588 of 2 August 2010 On Approving the Procedure for Drafting, Implementing and Assessing the Efficiency of State Programmes of the Russian Federation.
The Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief is responsible for implementing this state programme, with the Ministry of Healthcare, the Ministry of Regional Development and the Federal Service for Supervision of the Environment, Technology and Nuclear Management acting as co-executors of the state programme.
The state programme shall be implemented in two stages in 2013-2020:
first stage (2013-2015);
second stage (2016-2020).
The state programme aims to minimise social, economic and environmental damage to the population, the economy and the environment during and as result of hostilities, terrorist attacks, natural calamities and industrial accidents, fires and incidents at water facilities.
The following objectives shall be carried out in pursuit of this goal:
- to ensure the operation of an effective early warning system and conduct clean-up operations after natural calamities and industrial accidents, fires, incidents at water facilities, as well as clean-up operations after terrorist attacks and hostilities;
- to maintain the forces and resources of civil defence systems in a state of high readiness;
- to protect the population and territories from natural calamities and industrial accidents;
- to ensure fire safety and the safety of people at water facilities;
- to ensure the effective operation and management of the civil defence system;
- to expand the industrial safety system.
When implemented in full, the state programme will make it possible to do the following:
- to more effectively protect the population and territories from peacetime and wartime hazards and threats;
- to ensure more effective work of administrative, managerial and control agencies and civil defence forces;
- to ensure the cost-effective use of funding from budgets of all levels and the assets of legal entities in order to accomplish high-priority objectives to protect the population and territories in peacetime and wartime;
- to establish inter-regional, regional and facility-level systems for ensuring comprehensive protection from natural calamities and industrial accidents;
- to ensure the subsequent development of a nationwide information and early warning system for public areas, an information and telecommunications infrastructure of a system for managing risks of emergency situations and a system for monitoring and predicting emergency situations;
- to finalise and implement a system of measures to ensure more effective protection of territories, the population and facilities during the implementation of major economic and infrastructure projects, taking into account the natural and climactic features of the regions;
- to reduce fire risks and mitigate the possible consequences of fires;
- to more effectively protect the population and critically important facilities from fire risks;
- to increase the industrial safety of hazardous production facilities.