Amendments to the laws on children`s vacation

Amendments were made by the Federal Law as of October 16, 2019 №336-FL, aiming at improvement of state regulation of organizing children`s recreation and health improvement to the following legislative acts of Russia:

• the Federal Law as of November 24, 1996 №132-FL «On the Basics of Tourist Activity in the Russian Federation»;
• the Federal Law as of July 24, 1998 №124-FL «On basic guarantees of the rights of the child in the Russian Federation»;
• the Federal Law as of October 6, 1999 №184-FL «On basic principles of organization of legislative (representative) and executive bodies of state power of the subjects of the Russian Federation».

Amendments taken to the legislation obligate legal entities and individual entrepreneurs (IE), providing services on organizing children`s recreation and health improvement to present data necessary for entering to special registers till May 1, 2020.

The following information should be included:

• provided services on organizing children`s recreation and health improvement, including services on accommodation and meals;
• dates of putting into operation objects, used by the stationary organizations;
• reports of compliance to sanitary-epidemiological requirements and issuing dates;
• results of inspections made by supervising authorities in current and previous year;
• availability of services for disabled children and those with limited health capacity.

Entities and IE that were not entered to the Register, will be deprived from the right to provide services on organizing children`s recreation and health improvement since June 1, 2020.

Maintenance of Registers of organizing children`s recreation and health improvement is entrusted on the authorized bodies of executive power of the subjects of the Russian Federation.

The Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor) provides to the Unified intergovernmental information and statistics system the following data on amount of child and adolescent summer sanitary institutions in Russia (Picture 1):

Picture 1. Amount of child and adolescent summer sanitary institutions in Russia in 2009 – 2018 (units)

According to the Information and Analytical system Globas currently in Russia there are more than 1200 active legal entities with the name «children's health camp». Full information about the above-mentioned companies and their activities is available for the subscribers of Globas.