Fire Safety and Fire-fighting Law (2002)

This Law prescribes the system of fire safety, fire-fighting and rescue services and organisations, tasks and competence of natural persons and legal persons in the field of fire safety and fire-fighting, as well as the functions of the State Fire-fighting and Rescue Service, obligations, rights and legal protection of officials with special service rank of the State Fire-fighting and Rescue Service. Fire safety is conformity to the requirements specified in regulatory enactments in relation to the prevention, successful extinguishing of fire and reduction of the consequences thereof. The State supervision of fire safety is a set of preventive measures the purpose of which is to ensure the compliance with the fire safety requirements laid down in the laws and regulations. Fire-fighting is an organised activity, which shall be performed to eliminate fire, rescue natural persons and material valuables, as well as to protect the environment during the extinguishing of fire. Fire-fighting in a forest is a set of measures that ensures detection of the place of the fire, fire limitation and liquidation and supervision of the place of the fire in a forest and forest lands.