Normative and technical regulation of production facilities in the context of the upcoming revision of Technical regulation “General requirements to fire safety”

Introduction. The text of draft amendments to Technical Regulation “General requirements to fire safety” was published on January 16, 2020. Draft amendments were developed with in the framework of the“regulatory guillotine”approach. The mission of the proposed amendments was to eliminate excessive and duplicative fire safety requirements, inter alia, requirements applicable to fire safety and fire extinguishing devices that had been established by Technical Regulation of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU)“Оn Requirements for fire safety and extinguishing devices” (TR EEU 043/2017).
The purpose of this article is to substantiate the in expediency of, or, on the contrary, the need to make the proposed amendments to Federal Law No. 123-FZ of July 22, 2008 “Technical Regulation of Fire Safety Requirements”.
The body (analytical part) of the work. The proposed amendments to the regulatory legal act titled “Technical Regulations on Fire Safety Requirements” were drafted within the framework of the “regulatory guillotine” approach. In the course of the comparative analysis of effective fire safety requirements and proposed amendments the co-authors came up with recommendations for their improvement. The co-authors of the article present arguments to substantiate the inexpediency of some particular amendments, but at the same time, they support the need to make other amendments to Federal Law No 123-FZ. The co-authors comment on the proposed draft document that has twenty-eight amendments.
Conclusions. Fire safety regulations must represent a single consolidated document, rather than several “fragments” available in the Technical Regulations of the Eurasian Union, Technical Regulations of All-Russian Significance and Technical Regulations of Safety of Buildings and Structures.

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