LAW OF TURKMENISTAN

of September 15, 1998 No. 308-I

About the prevention and liquidation of emergency situations

This Law regulates the legal basis of the activities connected with the prevention and liquidation extraordinary situations and their effects.

CHAPTER I. General provisions

Article 1. Basic concepts

In this Law the following basic concepts are used:

emergency situation - the situation which developed in certain territory as a result of accident, catastrophic crash and other disaster, including natural and ecological nature which entailed or can entail death of people, do harm to their health or violate conditions of life activity of the population, cause damage to the surrounding environment, objects of production and social infrastructure;

zone of emergency situation - the territory in which it developed emergency (is declared);

the prevention of emergency situations - complex of the events held beforehand and directed to the greatest possible decrease in risk of emergence of emergency situations, and also to preserving human health, reduction of damage to the surrounding environment and material losses in case of their origin;

liquidation of emergency situations - the rescue and other urgent works which are carried out in case of emergency situations, directed to rescuing of life of people, localization of emergency situations and characteristic factors, dangerous to them, reduction of damage to the surrounding environment and material losses;

potentially dangerous objects industrial enterprises, storage bases and other objects, emergence of accident on which threatens life and activities of the working personnel, and also the population living near such objects.

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