PATVIRTINTA Official translation APPROVED by Resolution No. 1474 of 5 December 2001 of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania THE PROCEDURE FOR RECOGNISING FACILITIES OF ELECTRICITY ENERGY AS ENERGY FACILITIES OF STATE SIGNIFICANCE I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- This Procedure shall establish general and specific requirements set to electricity energy facilities, which may (must) be recognised as energy facilities of state significance, as well as regulate the recommendation to recognise them as facilities of state significance (establish methodology).
- Definition used for the purpose of this Procedure: electricity energy facilities of state significance shall mean objects, buildings, constructions or installations of energy economy, which may be chosen as targets of destruction in case of a military conflict and therefore may become centres of extreme events, as well as objects of energy economy irrespective of the form of their ownership failure or disruption of control, functioning or normal activity of which would pose a threat to do great harm to national security of the Republic of Lithuania – would disrupt state government and administration, functioning of the system of economy and branch of economy or infrastructure important to the state, would cause nature pollution, mass destruction of the population; hazardous energy facilities shall mean buildings, constructions where constantly or temporarily one or several hazardous materials or their waste are manufactured, kept, re-loaded, used, stored or neutralised, as well as hydro-electric constructions; extreme situation shall mean the situation, which forms due to the reasons of a natural, technical, ecological or social nature or military actions and poses a sudden and great threat to life or health of the people, their property, nature or destruction, damage of people or a loss of their property; energy installation shall mean a technical construction (mechanism, machinery, apparatus, a line, their auxiliary equipment), intended for generation, transmission and distribution of electrical energy; manufacturer shall mean a person generating electrical energy.
- This Procedure shall be binding on: 3.
- state institutions and economic entities to the competence of which resolution of issues of generation, transmission, distribution and supply of electricity is delegated; 3.
- local governments on the territory of which enterprises of generation, transmission, supply and distribution are located. II. CRITERIA FOR RECOGNISING ELECTRICITY ENERGY FACILITIES AS ENERGY FACILITIES OF STATE SIGNIFICANCE AND THEIR ACCOUNTING
- The following facilities shall be regarded as energy facilities of state significance: 4.
- electric power stations larger than 50 MW of installed total electrical power of all generators; 4.
- electricity transmission networks if voltage is 110 kV and larger, their equipment; 4.
- nuclear facilities; 4.
- hydro-electric power stations larger than 10 MW of installed total electrical power of all generators and their hydro-technical constructions; 4.
- other energy facilities recognised as facilities of state significance by resolutions of the Ministry of Economy.
- Energy facilities of state significance shall be entered into the Register of Facilities of State Significance and Hazardous Facilities, which shall be managed by the Department of Civil Security under the Ministry of National Defence in accordance with the provisions laid down in Subparagraph 4 of Paragraph 2 of Article 10 of the Republic of Lithuania Law on Civil Security (Official Gazette Valstybės žinios No. 115-3230, 1998) and Resolution No. 1384 of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania “On Reorganisation of the Register of Hazardous Facilities of Lithuanian Economy into the Register of Facilities of State Significance and Hazardous Facilities” of 8 November 2000 (Official Gazette Valstybės žinios No. 98-3117, 2000).
- The Ministry of Economy together with other state institutions shall: 6.
- consider applications of municipal and relative enterprises (providers of data of the Register) to grant the energy enterprise (facility) a status of the facility of state significance; 6.
- within one month following receipt of the application and the material specified in Point 7.1, adopts decisions on recognising the enterprise as an energy facility of state significance (legalised by Order of the Minister).
- A local government or an enterprise shall attach the following documents to a written application to grant the enterprise the status of the facility of state significance: 7.
- to the Ministry of Economy: 7.1.
- a full name, address and the identification code (if any) of the facility; 7.1.
- main data of possible accidents within the facility (about a possible effect on the users (settlements) of electricity to ensure stability); 7.1.
- the number of the inhabitants (users) in possible zones of impact; 7.1.
- data about the available forces of liquidating accidents; 7.
- To the Department of Civil Security under the Ministry of National Defence (the Department of Civil Security of the Administration of the County Governor): 7.2.
- a copy of the Order of the Ministry of Economy on granting the status of the facility of state significance to a certain facility; 7.2.
- copies of the data specified in Point 7.1; 7.2.
- data according to the requirements set to registration of the data (Point 15) in the provisions of the Register of Facilities of State Significance and Hazardous Facilities approved by Resolution No. 1386 of 8 November 2000 of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, provided that such data, taking into account specificity, are available Or they are possible to accumulate. III. FINAL PROVISIONS
- Individuals who violated this Procedure shall be liable in the procedure established by laws of the Republic of Lithuania.
- The Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of National Defence and the Ministry of Environment shall control, in the manner prescribed by laws, how the provisions of this Procedure are followed. ___________________