RESOLUTION OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

of March 1, 2018 No. 168

About approval of Rules on safety and anti-terrorist protection of hotels and similar means of placement

Based on part two of article 35 of the Law of the Republic of Belarus of July 23, 2008 "About Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus" the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus DECIDES: No. 424-Z

1. Approve Rules on safety and anti-terrorist protection of hotels and similar means of placement (are applied).

2. This resolution becomes effective in three months after its official publication.

Approved by the Resolution of Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus of March 1, 2018 No. 168

Rules on safety and anti-terrorist protection of hotels and similar means of placement

Chapter 1. General provisions

1. These rules determine safety requirements, obligatory for accomplishment, and anti-terrorist protection of hotels and similar means of placement * (further - hotels), their classifications by categories of safety (categorization of hotels), to technical reinforcement, execution of the anti-terrorist passport, efficiency evaluation of safety and anti-terrorist protection.

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* For the purposes of these rules similar means of placement are understood as motels and hostels according to the determinations of these terms used in the technical regulatory legal acts establishing general requirements to means of placement.

2. For the purposes of these rules the following main terms and their determinations are used:

anti-terrorist protection - set of the organizational, legal, security, regime, technical and other measures taken by state bodies and other organizations within competence for the purpose of the prevention of acts of terrorism and minimization of their effects, and also the investigation and search operations held for this purpose by the bodies performing operational search activities;

zone of limited access - the territory, the building, construction, the room (or their set) hotels, access to which is resolved only the employees of hotel providing functioning of the hotel or its part located in this zone;

critical elements - separate parts (sites) of hotel, its system, the equipment or devices, making of the act of terrorism concerning which will lead to violation of normal functioning of hotel, its damage or to accident on it;

safety hazard of hotel - potential or real-life possibility of the human victims, damnifications to human health, significant material damage, and also violation of conditions of life activity of people in connection with preparation or direct making of the act of terrorism in hotel.

Other terms are used in these rules in the values determined by the legislation on fight against terrorism, security activities, hotel servicing.

3. The obligation on providing safety requirements and anti-terrorist protection of hotel, except for the organizations and conducting the investigation and search operations provided by the Law of the Republic of Belarus of July 15, 2015 No. 307-Z "About operational search activities" is assigned to the head of the legal entity, the individual entrepreneur, the physical person performing operation of hotel and providing hotel services (further – the responsible person).

Investigation and search operations within safety and anti-terrorist protection of hotels are conducted by the bodies performing operational search activities, according to the procedure, stipulated by the legislation about operational search activities.

4. Types of technical remedies, means and systems of protection and procedure for equipment of hotel by them are determined in the specification on creation (enhancement) of system of technical reinforcement of hotel depending on its category of safety, and also at design stages, constructions, reconstruction or capital repairs of hotel.

Chapter 2. Categorization of hotels

5. For the purpose of establishment of the differentiated measures for safety and anti-terrorist protection of hotels their categorization is performed.

6. Categorization of hotels is performed proceeding from the predicted safety hazards taking into account the number of people who can die of harm to human health and material damage which can be caused as a result of possible making of the act of terrorism, use of hotels for permanent or temporary accommodation of persons who are subject to the state protection and also proceeding from need of holding additional actions for safety and anti-terrorist protection of hotels.

7. Calculation of the predicted indicator of number of people who can die or harm to health of which can be done as a result of making of the act of terrorism within hotel, is made by means of summing of the indicators received proceeding from the greatest possible number of consumers of the main and additional services, daily present service personnel, including administrative-and-management personnel, and also the maximum number of representatives of the servicing organizations which are daily in hotel.

8. The predicted indicator of possible material damage as a result of making of the act of terrorism within hotel is accepted equal to book value of the hotel expressed in basic sizes.

9. The list of the hotels used for permanent or temporary accommodation of persons who are subject to the state protection is determined by the Presidential Security Service of the Republic of Belarus and goes to Committee for State Security.

10. For implementation of categorization of hotel according to the decision of the responsible person the commission on inspection and assignment of category of safety (further - the commission) which involves representatives of the state security agencies, territorial authorities of internal affairs, special body of protection, bodies and divisions for emergency situations, local executive and administrative organs in the hotel location (further, unless otherwise specified, - authorized state bodies), and also if necessary representatives of other state bodies is created.

Representatives of authorized state bodies are involved the commissions in coordination with their heads.

In case of inspection and assignment of category of safety of the hotel used for permanent or temporary accommodation of persons who are subject to the state protection in work of the commission the representative of the Presidential Security Service of the Republic of Belarus can participate.

11. The commission is created:

concerning the functioning hotels - no later than two months from the date of entry into force of the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus approving these rules;

when commissioning new hotel - within two months from the date of the end of actions for its commissioning;

when updating the anti-terrorist passport of hotel - within one month from the date of decision making about its updating.

12. The term of work of the commission constitutes thirty working days.

13. The commission conducts examination of hotel during which:

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