Legislation amendments

In 2021, a new Regulation on licensing of activities related to the handling of industrial explosives will come into force. This is approved by the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of September 15, 2020 No. 1435.

The licensing authority is the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological, and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor).

Among the licensed activities are production, storage and use of industrial explosives.

The license applicants must meet the following requirements:

• availability of own relevant non-residential premises, buildings, structures and other objects or objects owned on other legal grounds;
• availability of own necessary technical devices and test and control equipment or equipment owned on other legal grounds, as well as technical documentation;
• availability of permanent staff member with the authority to make organizational decisions on implementation of the claimed work, with higher or secondary professional (technical) education, work experience in this field for at least 1 year, who meets the qualification requirements for the claimed work and is certified in accordance with the requirements of the Federal law "On industrial safety of hazardous production facilities»;
• keeping the records of industrial explosive materials in accordance with standards and regulations in the field of industrial safety;
• compliance of applied technical devices with mandatory requirements of technical regulations;
• technical devices must have positive expert reports on industrial safety entered in the relevant register;
• industrial safety management and production control systems organization.

The state fee is imposed on the granting and renewal of licenses.

The Regulation will come into force on January 1, 2021 and will be valid until January 1, 2027.

All information related to the entities involved in production, storage and use of industrial explosives (including historical data) is available in the Information and Analytical system Globas. Currently, more than 1400 companies have licenses for these types of activities.