Russian Federation Government Statute: "On the
Russian Federation Ministry of Atomic Energy." Followed by
Russian Federation Government Decree: "On Ratification of
the Statute on the Russian Federation Ministry of Atomic
Energy," signed by Chairman of Government of the Russian
Federation V. Chernomyrdin on 5 April 1997 in Moscow, No.
392
Text of Statute
1. The Russian Federation Ministry of Atomic Energy
(Minatom of Russia) is a federal agency of executive power
that implements state policy in the sphere of development,
production, and utilization of nuclear systems and weapons
and atomic power production; performs state management of
the application of atomic energy and, likewise, in cases
specified by the federal laws, edicts of the President of
the Russian Federation, and decrees of the Government of the
Russian Federation, implements coordination of activity in
this sphere with other federal agencies of executive power.
The Russian Federation Ministry of Atomic Energy
performs its activity in cooperation with other federal
agencies of executive power, agencies of executive power of
subjects of the Russian Federation, organs of local self-
government, and public associations.
2. The Russian Federation Ministry of Atomic Energy,
within the limits of its competency, bears responsibility
for the status and continued development of the nuclear
weapons and energy complexes of the Russian Federation and
the enterprises and organizations ensuring their activity
(henceforth referred to as the nuclear complex).
3. In its activity, the Russian Federation Ministry of
Atomic Energy is guided by the Constitution of the Russian
Federation, the federal laws, edicts and directives of the
President of the Russian Federation, decrees and directives
of the Government of the Russian Federation, as well as by
the present Statute.
4. The Russian Federation Ministry of Atomic Energy
generalizes the practice of application of Russian
Federation legislation on questions entering into its
competency, develops proposals on development [of such
legislation] and submits them in accordance with the
established procedure to the Government of the Russian
Federation, and participates in preparation of draft federal
laws and other normative legal statutes in the sphere of
application of atomic energy.
5. The primary tasks of the Russian Federation Ministry
of Atomic Energy consist of the following:
a) Provision of nuclear, radiation, and fire safety of
enterprises and organizations in the nuclear complex;
b) Formulation and realization of state policy in the
nuclear complex in conjunction with the Russian Federation
Security Council and the federal agencies of executive
power, and also in the field of international scientific-
technical and economic cooperation in this sphere;
c) Provision for mobilization preparation of
enterprises and organizations of the nuclear complex, within
the limits of its competency;
d) Provision for coordination of fundamental and
applied research and development in the sphere of high-
energy physics, nuclear physics, controlled thermonuclear
synthesis and radiochemistry conducted at enterprises and
organizations of the nuclear complex;
e) Implementation of state scientific-technical,
investment, structural, and conversion policy in the sphere
of application of atomic energy;
f) Administration of activity of enterprises and
organizations of the nuclear complex, within the limits of
its competency;
g) Provision for effective application of the
scientific- technical and production potential of
enterprises and organizations of the nuclear complex,
rational division of labor, and development of cooperation;
h) Performance of organizational-technical and
environmental protection measures directed at ensuring
ecological security (including in utilization of radioactive
waste) in the areas of location of enterprises and
organizations of the nuclear complex;
i) Within the scope of its powers and authorities and
in cooperation with the Russian Federation Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, provision for fulfillment of international
obligations of the Russian Federation on the Treaty on Non-
Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, agreements with the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and other
international agreements of the Russian Federation in the
sphere of application of atomic energy;
j) Implementation of coordinated scientific-technical
policy on the basis of international agreements of the
Russian Federation with the CIS participant states in the
sphere of atomic energy application;
k) Working in conjunction with the Russian Federation
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Russian Federation Ministry
of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade and other federal
agencies of executive power, implementation of state policy
in the sphere of export-import operations with nuclear
materials, technologies, equipment, installations, special
nonnuclear materials and radioactive substances;
l) Joint participation with other federal agencies of
executive power in the issuance of licenses in accordance
with established procedure to enterprises and organizations
in the nuclear complex for performance of activity
associated with the application of nuclear materials and
radioactive substances;
m) Implementation of state policy in the sphere of
social protection of workers of the nuclear complex;
n) Implementation of accounting and control of nuclear
materials and radioactive substances at enterprises and
organizations of the nuclear complex;
o) Provision of physical protection of nuclear
materials and nuclear installations, radiation sources,
radioactive substances, centers for storage of nuclear
materials and radioactive substances (henceforth referred to
as storage centers) at enterprises and organizations of the
nuclear complex;
p) Development of federal and sectorial standards and
regulations in the sphere of application of atomic energy;
q) Organization of work directed at ensuring
appropriate quality of equipment, materials, and instruments
for purposes of safe operation of the nuclear complex;
r) Participation in development and realization of
federal target programs in the sphere of application of
atomic energy, including conversion applications, as well as
other target programs in the sphere of atomic science and
technology, including programs on management of spent
nuclear fuel and radioactive waste.
6. The Russian Federation Ministry of Atomic Energy, in
accordance with the tasks assigned to it, performs the
following basic functions:
a) In the sphere of the nuclear complex of the Russian
Federation:
--In conjunction with the Russian Federation Ministry
of Defense and other federal agencies of executive power,
implements state policy in the sphere of development,
testing, production, and utilization of nuclear weapons,
provision of their safety, fulfillment of conversion
programs of enterprises of the Russian Federation Ministry
of Atomic Energy; performs guarantee supervision over the
safe operation of nuclear weapons;
--Within the limits of its competency, manages the
development of nuclear systems and weapons; organizes their
production, testing, modernization, utilization of weapons
nuclear materials; ensures mobilization readiness of
enterprises and organizations of the nuclear complex in
accordance with the Russian Federation legislation;
--Participates in work on disarmament and
nonproliferation of nuclear weapons;
--Acts as the state contractor for work on development,
testing, production, development, and utilization of nuclear
systems and weapons within the scope of fulfillment of the
state defense contract;
--In conjunction with other federal agencies of
executive power, develops long-range predictions and drafts
of state programs for application of atomic energy;
b) In the sphere of nuclear and radiation safety and
labor protection:
--Organizes and coordinates work on ensuring safety;
--Submits proposals on formulation and implementation
of state policy in the sphere of management of radioactive
waste, develops appropriate sectorial and federal target
programs, and organizes work on their realization;
--In conjunction with other federal agencies of
executive power, organizes development of federal and
sectorial standards and regulations in the sphere of
application of atomic energy;
--Coordinates activity of enterprises and organizations
of the nuclear complex under conditions of emergency and
accident situations;
--Organizes and ensures supervision and control over
the radiation situation at potentially dangerous facilities
of the nuclear complex and their adjoining territories;
--Organizes preparation and implementation of measures
on preventing and eliminating consequences of accidents and
catastrophes at enterprises and organizations of the nuclear
complex, and implements appropriate state control over their
fulfillment;
--Organizes coordination of work on location of objects
of the nuclear complex with consideration for industrial and
ecological safety;
--Ensures participation of departmental emergency-
rescue formations, which are included in the unified state
system of prevention and elimination of extraordinary
situations, in performance of emergency rescue and other
urgent work during extraordinary situations at enterprises
and organizations of the nuclear complex;
--Manages development and operation of appropriate
sectorial subsystems entering into the unified state system
of prevention and elimination of extraordinary situations;
--Implements control over fulfillment of civil defense
measures, as well as measures for ensuring fire safety at
enterprises and organizations of the nuclear complex, and
over their readiness for action in extraordinary situations
in peacetime and wartime;
--Organizes and ensures fulfillment of work on
formulation of public opinion on questions of reliability,
technical and ecological safety of objects of atomic
energetics and industry;
--Provides the necessary information on the activity of
enterprises and organizations of the nuclear complex to the
Government of the Russian Federation, the agencies of state
security regulation in application of atomic energy, other
supervisory agencies, public associations, the mass media,
and the public;
--Fulfills functions of a competent state body on
nuclear and radiation safety in the shipment of nuclear
materials, radioactive substances, and products made of
them;
--Implements methodical management of the nuclear and
radiation safety services of enterprises and organizations
of the nuclear complex, and organizes training and advanced
training of the workers of these services;
--Implements technical policy directed at ensuring safe
labor conditions at enterprises and organizations of the
nuclear complex; implements appropriate control and
organizes scientific research on these problems;
--Organizes and ensures readiness of forces and means
of special emergency services for actions in case of
extraordinary situations at enterprises and organizations of
the nuclear complex;
--Makes provision, in accordance with the established
procedure, for security at enterprises and organizations of
the nuclear complex in case of inability of these
enterprises and organizations to perform functions of the
operating organization in regard to provision of security;
c) In the sphere of ensuring stable operation of the
nuclear complex:
--Adopts the decision on recognizing subordinate
enterprises or organizations suitable for operating a
nuclear installation, radiation source, or storage center
and performing, through its own efforts or with involvement
of other organizations, activity on location, design,
construction, operation, and removal from operation of a
nuclear installation, radiation source or storage center,
and, likewise, activity on handling of nuclear materials and
radioactive substances;
--Coordinates activity of enterprises and organizations
of the nuclear complex for the purpose of implementing
coordinated scientific-technical, financial, investment, and
foreign economic policy;
--Formulates sectorial centralized means and funds in
accordance with established procedure;
--Implements scientific-technical policy, including
questions of conversion; defines priority directions of
scientific-technical progress in the sphere of the nuclear
complex;
--Develops intersectorial scientific-technical
programs; ensures development of federal target programs in
the sphere of atomic science and technology;
--Coordinates realization of scientific-technical and
innovative projects on priority directions of development of
the nuclear complex at the federal, intersectorial, and
sectorial levels;
--At the expense of centralized funds, performs
financing of scientific-research and experimental design
work undertaken for purposes of developing technology,
increasing safety and stability of the operation of
especially radiation-hazardous and nuclear- hazardous
productions and facilities, work on conversion of defense
production, and, likewise, measures for improving the
radiation and ecological situation on territories adjoining
especially radiation- hazardous and nuclear-hazardous
objects, and on ensuring medical- social protection of
citizens living on the indicated territories;
--Analyzes and appraises domestic and foreign market
conditions on types of products manufactured by enterprises
and organizations of the nuclear complex;
--Implements regulation of cooperative ties;
--Within the limits of its competency, develops the
economic mechanism and organizational structure for managing
the nuclear complex;
--Working in conjunction with the agencies of executive
power of subjects of the Russian Federation, develops
sectorial programs for development of priority directions in
the sphere of conversion, development of the social
infrastructure, manpower provision, and cadre training;
--Participates in formulation of state policy in the
sphere of legal and social protection of workers of the
nuclear complex under conditions of the market economy and
conversion and implements measures for its realization
within the limits of its competency;
--Participates in development, conclusion, and
fulfillment of sectorial (tariff) agreements;
--In accordance with established procedure and within
the limits of its competency, participates in work on
standardization, metrology, certification, and improvement
of quality; organizes and coordinates activity of
enterprises and organizations of the nuclear complex in
these areas, including organization and implementation of
work on certification of equipment, goods, and technologies
for nuclear installations, radiation sources, and storage
centers; implements state control over adherence to
requirements of state standards, regulations of metrology,
and certification in the sphere of application of atomic
energy;
--Coordinates interaction of military formations of the
Russian Federation Ministry of Atomic Energy with
enterprises and organizations of the nuclear complex;
d) In the sphere of fulfillment of international
obligations and guarantees of the Russian Federation on
nuclear weapons, atomic energetics, and nuclear
technologies:
--Participates in international cooperation in the
sphere of application of atomic energy;
--Within the limits of its competency, ensures
adherence to international obligations of the Russian
Federation in the sphere of nonproliferation of nuclear
weapons, nuclear export and import, prohibition of nuclear
testing, and, likewise, creation of a system of technical
means of effective control in the sphere of nuclear
disarmament and nonproliferation of nuclear weapons;
--Within the limits of its competency, ensures
fulfillment of obligations stemming from the Convention on
Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials, the Convention on
Effective Notification Regarding Nuclear Accidents, the
Convention on Aid in Case of Nuclear Accident or Radiation
Emergency Situation, and the Agreement with the IAEA on
guarantees, and also performs functions of the national
competent agency on obligations within the IAEA and other
international organizations in regard to their activity on
the nuclear thematics;
e) In the sphere of state administration of activity of
enterprises and organizations of the nuclear complex:
--Ensures development of predictions and programs for
socioeconomic development of the nuclear complex;
--Ensures formulation and placement of contracts at
enterprises, organizations and institutions for purchase and
delivery of products (work and services) for federal state
needs; ensures financing of these contracts and control over
their fulfillment;
--Working in conjunction with other federal agencies of
executive power, organizes transport shipments of nuclear
materials, nuclear fuel, and radioactive substances on the
territory of the Russian Federation, and ensures their
physical protection, nuclear and radiation safety;
--Analyzes the technical and economic level of project
decisions and implements control over adherence to normative
terms of construction of objects of the nuclear complex
subject to financing at the expense of federal budget funds;
--Submits to the Government of the Russian Federation
proposals on development of tax and credit-monetary policy
and, likewise, on provision of state support to enterprises
and organizations of the nuclear complex with consideration
of the specifics of their operation;
--Implements realization of state policy in the sphere
of labor and wages;
--With involvement of other federal agencies of
executive power, submits proposals to the Government of the
Russian Federation on stimulating increased labor
productivity, labor wages, regulation of labor relations,
and other questions of activity of the nuclear complex, in
accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation;
--Performs bookkeeping accounting and compiles the
necessary summary bookkeeping and statistical reporting;
--Organizes and coordinates work on fire protection,
physical protection of nuclear materials, nuclear
installations, radiation sources, radioactive substances,
and storage centers; performs accounting and control of
nuclear materials and radioactive substances at enterprises
and organizations of the nuclear complex, as well as
comprehensive protection of state and commercial secrets and
intellectual property;
--Organizes work on training and retraining highly
skilled cadres;
--In accordance with the established procedure,
ratifies charters of subordinate state unitarian
enterprises; concludes, amends, and dissolves contracts with
managers of these enterprises; appoints the managers of
organizations (state unitarian enterprise) responsible for
development of the project design for the nuclear
installation or storage center;
--Within the limits of its competency, adopts measures
on protection and application of the rights to know-how,
objects of industrial ownership (inventions, industrial
prototypes, trademarks, and other objects) in the interests
of the state, and the right to perform work contracted by
the ministry;
--In accordance with the established procedure,
organizes the performance of expert appraisals of secret and
top secret objects of industrial property in the sphere of
application of atomic energy and issues secret documents in
accordance with the effective legislation;
--Analyzes the process of development of the nuclear
complex on the basis of statistical and other data;
--Coordinates activity of officials who have been
appointed to represent the state, in accordance with the
established procedure, in joint-stock companies created in
the process of privatization of enterprises of the nuclear
complex, with shares secured to federal ownership;
--In accordance with the established procedure,
implements control over the proper application and
safekeeping of property of enterprises and organizations of
the nuclear complex that is related to federal ownership
and, in case of violation of established regulations, takes
necessary measures in accordance with the Russian Federation
legislation;
--Participates in implementing accounting of objects of
federal ownership, including immovable property at
enterprises and organizations of the nuclear complex;
--Working in conjunction with the federal agencies of
executive power and the agencies of executive power of
subjects of the Russian Federation, prepares proposals on
the creation and liquidation of state unitarian enterprises
in the nuclear complex;
--Provides for presentation of materials on evaluation
of radiation effect of a nuclear installation, radiation
source, or storage center on the environment for state
ecological expert appraisal;
--Coordinates applications for issuance of licenses for
export and import of nuclear materials, equipment, special
nonnuclear materials, and corresponding technologies;
--Working in conjunction with other federal agencies of
executive power, resolves questions of issuance of
certifications to countries that are suppliers of nuclear
materials, equipment, special nonnuclear materials and
corresponding technologies in regard to their peacetime
application and on measures of their physical protection,
and, likewise, questions of reexport, and arrangements under
guarantee of IAEA;
---In accordance with the international obligations of
the Russian Federation, provides information on export and
import of nuclear materials, special nonnuclear materials,
equipment and corresponding technologies;
--Participates in accordance with established procedure
in the issuance of licenses for engaging in various types of
activity in the sphere of application of atomic energy;
7. For the purpose of implementing its tasks and
functions, the Russian Federation Ministry of Atomic Energy
has the right to:
--Create commissions, work groups, and other temporary
collectives in extraordinary situations, involving
specialists of enterprises and organizations of the nuclear
complex and other organizations in their work;
--In accordance with the established procedure and
within the limits of its competency, receive from agencies
of state statistics, enterprises, and organizations of the
nuclear complex, regardless of their form of ownership,
information necessary for fulfillment of the tasks placed
upon the ministry;
--In accordance with the established procedure,
nominate outstanding workers of enterprises and
organizations of the nuclear complex for presentation of
state awards of the Russian Federation, and employ other
means of incentive.
8. The Russian Federation Ministry of Atomic Energy is
headed by the minister, who is appointed and dismissed by
the President of the Russian Federation upon nomination of
the Chairman of Government of the Russian Federation.
The minister has deputies, who are appointed to their
duties and dismissed from them at his nomination by the
Government of the Russian Federation.
The Russian Federation Minister of Atomic Energy:
--Manages the activity of the ministry on the principle
of singular authority;
--Bears personal responsibility for fulfillment of the
tasks and implementation of functions charged to the
ministry;
--Distributes responsibilities between the deputy
ministers; establishes responsibility of managers of
structural subsections of the ministry;
--Ratifies the structure and staff roster of the
central apparatus of the ministry within the limits of the
staff numbers established by the Government of the Russian
Federation and the labor wage fund, the estimate of
expenditures within the limits of the funds allocated from
the federal budget for maintenance of federal agencies of
the executive branch, and, likewise, the statute on
structural subdivisions of the ministry;
--Appoints and dismisses workers of the ministry's
central apparatus in accordance with the established
procedure;
--Within the limits of his competency, issues orders,
directives, and instructions that are mandatory for
fulfillment by the ministry workers, as well as by the
enterprises and organizations of the nuclear complex, and
organizes control over their fulfillment;
--Exercises leadership of the ministry's military
formations.
9. A governing board is formed within the Russian
Federation Ministry of Atomic Energy, consisting of the
minister (chairman of the board), his deputies by duties, as
well as other management workers of the ministry central
apparatus and other persons.
The members of the board, except for the persons
entering into its complement by virtue of their official
duties, are ratified by the Government of the Russian
Federation upon nomination of the Russian Federation
Minister of Atomic Energy.
At its meetings, the board reviews vital questions of
development and activity of the nuclear complex.
The decisions of the governing board are formulated by
protocols and implemented by orders of the minister. If
necessary, representatives of agencies of executive power of
subjects of the Russian Federation, joint-stock companies,
enterprises, and organizations, and scientists and
specialists who have direct relation to the questions being
discussed may participate in the board meetings.
10. For purposes of development and realization of
state scientific- technical policy in the sphere of
application of atomic energy and introduction of the latest
achievements of domestic and foreign science, technology,
and leading experience, scientific- technical councils are
created within the Russian Federation Ministry of Atomic
Energy. Organizational-technical provision of the activity
of these councils is performed by the central apparatus of
the Russian Federation Ministry of Atomic Energy. The
statute on the councils and, likewise, their complement, are
ratified by the Russian Federation Minister of Atomic
Energy.
11. Financing of expenditures for maintenance of the
central apparatus of the Russian Federation Ministry of
Atomic Energy is performed at the expense of federal budget
funds allocated for maintenance of the federal agencies of
executive power.
12. The Russian Federation Ministry of Atomic Energy
has current and other accounts at banking institutions.
13. The Russian Federation Ministry of Atomic Energy is
a legal entity and has a stamp that bears the depiction of
the State Seal of the Russian Federation and its name.
Text of Decree Ratifying Statute
The Government of the Russian Federation hereby decrees
that:
1. The appended Statute on the Russian Federation
Ministry of Atomic Energy shall be ratified.
2. The following shall be recognized as no longer
effective:
--The decree of the Council of Ministers-Government of
the Russian Federation, dated 24 January 1993, No. 81, "On
Ratification of the Statute on the Russian Federation
Ministry of Atomic Energy;"
--The decree of the Council of Ministers-Government of
the Russian Federation, dated 13 December 1993, No. 1258,
"On Introducing Amendments Into the Statute on the Russian
Federation Ministry of Atomic Energy;"
--Point 7 of the changes and amendments submitted to
the decision of the Government of the Russian Federation,
ratified by decree of the Government of the Russian
Federation, dated 25 May 1994, No. 540, "On Recognizing the
Changes and Amendments to Certain Decisions of the
Government of the Russian Federation on Questions of
Metrology, Standardization, and Certification as No Longer
Effective," (Collected Legislation of the Russian
Federation, 1994, No. 7, p 763);
--Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation,
dated 19 June 1994, No 734, "On Introducing Changes and
Amendments to the Statute on the Russian Federation Ministry
of Atomic Energy."
[Signed] Chairman of Government of the Russian
Federation V. Chernomyrdin
5 April 1997
No. 392, Moscow
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