Decree No. 175 / 1975 Coll.
Decree of the Federal Ministry of Fuel and Energy implementing certain provisions of the Gas Act
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DECLARATION
Federal Ministry of Fuel and Energy
of 31 October 1975
implementing certain provisions of the Gas Act
The Federal Ministry of Fuel and Energy, in agreement with the participating central authorities, provides, pursuant to Article 26 of Act No. 67 / 1960 Coll., on the production, distribution and use of heating gases (Gas Act), hereinafter referred to as "the Act":
EXAMPLES OF CERTAIN CONSIDERATIONS
Heating gases
The provisions of this Decree apply to light gas, natural gas, coke oven gas and propane-butane (hereinafter referred to as "heating gases').
Gas plants
Equipment for the production of heating gases
(1) Equipment for the production of heating gases are:
(a) gas plants;
(b) equipment for cleaning, mixing and other treatment of manufactured or taken-over heating gases, provided that these gases are the main product and are intended for delivery to gas pipelines;
(c) fillers of liquefied heating gases.
(2) The installation for the production of heating gases also includes the internal gas distribution, up to the closure of the gas mains (the "transfer point ').
Equipment for storage of heating gases
(1) Equipment for the storage of heating gases are:
(a) gas tanks when connected to a pipeline network;
(b) stable storage tanks and fixed pressure vessels for liquefied gas, provided they serve for the distribution of heating gases and are intended for the supply to gas mains or for filling into pressure vessels for the transport of gas;
(c) underground containers constructed artificially or in natural rock structures after depleted stocks of natural gas or other minerals.
(2) The heating gas storage facilities include cleaning, compression, liquefaction and evaporation equipment required for the storage process.
Equipment for the distribution of heating gases
(1) Equipment for the distribution of heating gases are, on the one hand, pipelines from the transfer point (from production, extraction or storage) to the pipeline connection, and, on the other hand, compressive, blowing, mixing, measuring and regulating stations for public distribution. Furthermore, this includes a central station of liquefied heating gas with evaporation capacity from 20 kg / h for the supply of municipalities and settlements, unless it is an installation under Section 3. Public distribution control stations are stations to regulate and maintain constant gas pressure for the supply of cities, municipalities and settlements.
(2) Equipment for the distribution of heating gases are also systems 1) intended for the transit of heating gases through the territory of the State.
Gas connections
(1) The pipeline connection serves to connect the gas sampling device to the pipeline and extends from the pipeline to the main closure of the gas sampling device; It also includes a gas pressure regulator when fitted before the main cap.
(2) Gas connections used to connect demand gas installations in residential and other buildings (2) and small plants on the pipeline network are gas connections for public distribution.
(3) Other pipeline connections are industrial connections.
Transfer point
The point of transmission from production, extraction, storage and other sources, as well as from imports into the pipeline network, shall be the first closure after the supplier's measuring device, unless otherwise agreed between the supplier and the buyer of the heating gases.
Heating gas meters
According to the Gas Act, heating gas meters are all meters approved by the competent authorities to measure the supply of heating gases. 3)
Dispute resolution
In doubt whether it is a gas plant, the Federal Ministry of Fuel and Energy will decide.
ESTABLISHMENT, OPERATING AND RURING, GAS AND GAS PLANTS
Establishment and operation of gas installations
(K § 5 of the Act)
(1) In accordance with the rules on investment construction and other generally binding legislation, natural gas undertakings are set up and operated.
(2) The approval of the establishment and operation of installations for the production of heating gases by organisations other than gas undertakings is granted by the Federal Ministry of Fuel and Energy only
(a) if it is a plant for the production of heating gases within an organisation which is more economically advantageous to ensure the supply of heating gas to the pipeline network for public distribution or for its own use;
(b) if the plant for the production of heating gas is driven for the needs of the operator, if it cannot be ensured that heating gases are supplied from the pipeline network for public distribution or otherwise;
(c) use a high pressure treatment plant where coke oven gas is processed from its own production.
(3) The investor shall request the consent referred to in paragraph 2 from his superior authority when discussing preparatory documentation dealing with the construction or substantial extension of gas installations referred to in paragraph 2. The request shall be supported by an expression of the relevant State energy inspection. The Federal Ministry of Fuel and Energy shall inform the applicant within 30 days of the date of receipt of the request whether it agrees with the intended construction or extension. The granting of consent may be subject to compliance with certain conditions (in particular with regard to the manner or extent of construction and operation) as well as to the possibility of the supply of heating gases to the pipeline network.
Establishment of gas connections
(1) Gas connections shall comply with safety regulations and technical standards (4) Installation work in the establishment or distribution, exchange or reconstruction of gas connections may only be carried out by authorised organisations, 5) which have qualified staff for such work (§ 24 (1)).
(2) The gas undertaking shall communicate to the applicant the establishment of a gas pipeline connection (administrator, owner of the construction or installation, where applicable, to the investor) the data and instructions needed for the processing of the preparatory and project documentation and the safe and economical establishment or extension of the pipeline connection, and shall apply, within the framework of the construction procedure, the reasonable conditions for its connection to the pipeline to be taken into account by the construction office in the decision. The gas undertaking may refuse the connection if the conditions laid down have not been complied with.
(3) The administrator, the owner of the construction or equipment to be connected to the pipeline, or, where appropriate, to the newly built structures or facilities of their investor, is obliged to ensure that the necessary modifications are made to those buildings as required by the natural gas undertaking.
Gas connections for public distribution
(1) Gas connections for public distribution (Section 5 (2)) are set up and expanded by natural gas undertakings.
(2) The administrator, the owner of the construction or installation to be connected to the pipeline and, for newly built structures or installations, the investor of the gas undertaking shall request authorisation to establish and extend the pipeline connection for the public distribution, on a separate form received from that undertaking.
(3) The gas undertaking will establish a pipeline connection for public distribution within the approved town-gazing plan, taking into account maximum efficiency.
(4) With the agreement of the natural gas undertaking and under the conditions laid down by it, they may exceptionally establish or extend a pipeline connection for public distribution and other organisations other than natural gas undertakings or private persons, with their own costs.
(5) In the case of concentrated complex housing, a high-pressure gas supply, including a gas control station, establishes high-pressure / medium-pressure pressure, resulting in a close-out at the centre-pressure gas outlet at the housing border, the gas undertaking. A general investor of complex housing construction sets up the necessary part of the gas distribution facility at the boundaries of the housing complex after consulting the gas undertaking.
Industrial gas connections
Industrial gas connections (Section 5 (3)) shall be set up or extended, under conditions laid down by the natural gas undertaking, to their cargo to the administrator, the owners of the buildings or equipment to be connected to the pipeline. They are set up by their investors for newly built buildings or facilities. These connections shall be established including industrial control stations.
Operation of gas connections
(1) Gas connections established by organisations other than natural gas undertakings shall be transferred (including the relevant parts for public distribution) to the management of the natural gas undertaking free of charge. (6) Gas connections established by organisations other than public or private persons shall be transferred free of charge to the State and to the management of the natural gas undertaking on the date on which they are put into permanent operation (use).
(2) Where a gas pipeline connection has been set up by someone other than a gas undertaking (Sections 11 (4) and 11 (5) and 12), the gas undertaking shall be a party to the permanent traffic (use) authorisation procedure. An investor of a gas pipeline connection shall, upon the issue of this authorisation, transmit to the gas undertaking all documentation of the gas pipeline connection. The gas undertaking operates these pipeline connections (for concentrated housing and civil construction as well as the relevant part of the public distribution facility) from the date of their entry into permanent operation.
Installation services of heating gas meters
(1) Before the connection is introduced into permanent operation and the start of the operation of the sampling gas equipment, the gas undertaking shall install the heating gas gauges (hereinafter referred to as gas meters). The nature, location and location of the gas undertaking shall be decided by the gas undertaking.
(2) When expanding the consumption of heating gases, the buyer, operator or user of the gas collection facility shall prepare and secure at the location designated by the gas undertaking the conditions for fitting another gas meter.
(3) In order to ensure the proper functioning of the gas meter, the natural gas undertaking shall be entitled to ensure that it is secured by company fillings and that its integrity is checked. Damage or removal of the seal shall be considered as damage to the gas meter.
Cancellation and cessation of gas installations
(K § 7 of the Act)
(1) The decommissioning of gas installations or parts thereof, which cannot affect the continuity and reliability of the supply of gas to the network, cannot affect the planned or fast production capacity or distribution capacity and cannot impair the operating conditions and characteristics of the supplied heating gases, is not regarded as cancelling or stopping within the meaning of Article 7 of the Act.
(2) The assent of the Federal Ministry of Fuel and Energy pursuant to Article 7 (1) of the Act is not necessary for a short-term interruption of operations, such as in the event of failures, revisions, repairs and temporary cessation, ordered by the gas dispatch authority or by the authorities of the state professional safety oversight of work and technical equipment (hereinafter referred to as the "state professional supervision authorities").
Selective gas equipment
(K § 8 of the Act)
(1) The sampling gas installations are in particular:
(a) industrial control stations, separate control equipment for industrial appliances, heating plants and district and home boilers;
(b) the internal heating gas distribution, including the main closure, provided that such distribution is not part of the heating gas plant (§ 2 (2));
(c) domestic gas pipelines, including the main closure and gas pressure regulators, if behind the main closure;
(d) heating gas appliances with accessories;
(e) individual pressure stations or only liquefied fuel gas containers (propane-butane) with the appropriate control, distribution and, where appropriate, evaporation equipment for one industrial customer or for one household;
(f) propane-butane stations with evaporation capacity up to 20 kg / h, including control equipment, local distribution lines, domestic pipelines and stable pressure vessels for propane-butane for several customers,
(g) propane-butane stations for industrial plants with evaporation power exceeding 20 kg propane-butane / hour with accessories including stable pressure storage tanks. However, central stations of this size for the supply of municipalities and settlements belong to heating gas distribution facilities (§ 4).
(2) For all industrial appliances of heating gases to be built or reconstructed if they have the consumption laid down in the relevant legislation, 7) the fuel base of heating gases shall be determined.
Obligations of gas operators and gas demand facilities
(K § 9 and 17 of the Act)
(1) Operators of gas installations, as well as sampling gas plants, with the exception of household appliances, shall in particular:
(a) ensure, under the legislation, including technical standards and local operating rules, and, where appropriate, local operational and safety instructions [point (f)], that checks and revisions of such facilities are carried out within the specified time limits;
(b) entrust service and routine maintenance only to personnel with professional competence;
(c) to ensure the installation and repair of industrial control stations and of all gas collection facilities only by authorised organisations, 9)
(d) to provide for the training of staff responsible for operating and routine maintenance of such facilities;
(e) keep the prescribed documentation of the equipment, including the documentation of the actual design, and keep it hidden, as well as other documents provided for by legislation and technical standards throughout the period of use of the equipment;
(f) to draw up, for the operation of equipment, local operating rules or local operational and safety instructions to ensure proper operation, operation and normal maintenance of the equipment; (10) local operating schedules or local operational and safety instructions shall be available to all operators and routine maintenance personnel who shall be demonstrated to be familiar with them in advance.
(2) The replacement and repair of the main closures for gas pressure regulators and connections behind the main closure is carried out by the gas undertaking on the cargo of the administrator, the owner of the construction or equipment.
(3) AIFMs, owners, operators and users of gas demand facilities in residential buildings and small establishments are required in particular to:
(a) maintain the necessary caution when using gas appliances, (11) in order to avoid any danger or damage to health or property and follow instructions for its use;
(b) comply with the time limits for the checks, adjustments and cleaning of gas appliances laid down in the instructions for their use, and, where appropriate, in the instructions given by the approved organisation for the repair, maintenance and adjustment of appliances;
(c) ensure the submission of documentation of the actual execution of the home pipeline before any required extension of the gas collection in the building, if the gas undertaking no longer has it, or it is clear that this documentation does not correspond to the reality,
(d) ensure that regular maintenance and repairs are carried out by the approved organisation;
(e) require and keep records of revisions, repairs, inspections, adjustments and cleaning of the sampling gas equipment and its parts from authorised implementing organisations.
(4) Gas undertakings and producers of gas demand facilities
(a) cooperate in the training and retraining of repairers and operators of demand facilities (Section 17 (1) of the Act);
(b) cooperate in calling on public security authorities and on state professional supervision in the investigation of accidents and accidents caused by the production, distribution and use of heating gases.
PRODUCTION, DEVELOPMENT, USE AND CONSUMPTION OF FUEL GAS
Gas organisation and gas undertaking
(K § 10 of the Act)
(1) The gas organisation within the meaning of the Act is a state economic organisation for the production and distribution of gas in the fuel industry established by the Minister for Fuel and Energy of the CSSR.
(2) The gas undertaking within the meaning of the Act is an organisational unit of the gas organisation, acting on its behalf in economic relations, 12a) which has in its object of activity in particular the production, distribution and storage of heating gases, the filling and distribution of liquefied heating gases, the construction and operation of transit gas pipelines, as well as the construction of pipelines and connections which, when put into permanent operation, are in its management.
Gas Dispatch
(K § 11 of the Act)
(1) The exercise of the dispatching activity is governed by the Operational Regulations of the Gas Dispatcher Services of the Federal Ministry of Fuel and Energy Organisation (hereinafter referred to as the Operating Regulations). The operating rules define the organisational scope of the gas dispatcher service in the management of the supply of natural gas and lamp gas throughout the territory of the CSSR, determine its breakdown, competence and responsibility of the different dispatcher components and their relationship.
(2) Operators of installations for the production, treatment, storage and distribution of heating gases (§ 2, 3, 4) and for the extraction of natural gas are required:
(a) to discuss and submit to the gas dispatcher proposals for the production plan, own consumption, rapid performance and supply of heating gases to the national gas supply system, as well as proposals for a plan for revisions, shutdowns and repairs of those installations, to the extent and in the manner laid down in the operating rules of the gas dispatcher service;
(b) submit to the gas dispatcher a plan for the own production, consumption and supply of heating gases to the national gas pipeline system, broken down into months, maximum daily quantities of heating gases, if applicable, and the technical data relating to the production facilities required for the dispatching management of supply, taking into account the necessary performance;
(c) notify the gas dispatching system of the resulting failures on the designated installations, as well as any important circumstances affecting the level and course of supply of heating gases, where they may affect the production or supply of heating gases to the national gas system;
(d) operate and maintain those installations in sound operational condition, respecting the principles of safety of operation and following the instructions of the gas dispatcher.
(3) In carrying out its tasks, the gas dispatcher shall, through its constituents, manage all production performance including peak and heating gas extraction and treatment facilities, methane liquefaction stations and underground containers.
(4) The gas dispatcher shall be entitled to intervene in the production, supply and consumption of heating gases in the event of emergency situations on supply systems or in the event of immediate disturbances between gas sources and consumption.
(5) In the case of installations for the production, treatment and extraction of heating gases from which heating gas is not supplied to the national gas pipeline system, the organisation shall agree with the gas dispatcher on the implementation of the cooperation, on how these installations are to be adapted to the needs of the cooperation and designate a responsible representative for the cooperation with the gas dispatcher authorities.
GAS MANAGEMENT
Obligations of gas customers
(K § 12 of the Act)
(1) An organisation collecting heating gases shall:
(a) use only approved gas appliances with high economic and safety technical values, equipped with the necessary measuring and signalling equipment and, if possible, an automatic system which has been proven to comply with the relevant safety regulations and technical standards, 13)
(b) ensure that heat-treated appliances of the appropriate size of the bet are used for heat processes in order to meet the technologically necessary hours of the bet and to reduce heat losses by the correct organisation of work;
(c) monitor gas consumption at a constant rate, implement justified consumption standards and reduce them by rationalisation measures;
(d) keep the gas collection facilities in good technical condition, unsatisfactory to reconstruct and obsolete to replace them in time for more economical and technically superior; modernise gas furnaces and appliances during reconstructions and transfers to other types of heating gases to increase their thermal efficiency;
(e) to be demonstrated when requests to expand the fuel base for newly designed gas appliances by confirming the relevant national energy inspection, (14) by the testing centre or institute responsible for testing the consumption gas equipment, that their existing appliances operate with the energy efficiency required by the regulations, are fully loaded and do not exceed the gas consumption standards;
(f) provide, on request, the relevant gas organisation or the relevant national energy inspection with the data and information needed to assess the gas management (mainly heat balance of furnaces) and to prepare gas supply plans, data on the use of appliances and how they are put into service.
(2) Where the control authority of the relevant national energy inspection finds that the gas-extracting organisation uses the gas in an uneconomical and inefficient manner, it shall impose measures to address the deficiencies identified and fix a time limit for their removal.
COMPETITION STYLE
Conditions for connection to the pipeline network
(K § 16 of the Act)
(1) All new, as well as expanded, demand facilities can only be established and connected after prior consultation with and under the conditions laid down by the natural gas undertaking.
(2) Collective gas installations (Paragraph 15 (1)) shall only be attached by the natural gas undertaking if they correspond to the application submitted, the supporting documents discussed in accordance with Section 21 of this Order and if they have been technically examined (Section 22).
(3) Managers, owners of buildings and installations, and where applicable, operators of gas demand facilities, are required to allow the authorised personnel of the gas undertaking access to gas meters (§ 7), related equipment and gas demand facilities (§ 15 (1)). Special regulations apply to enter the home defence facility. 16)
Technical documentation
(1) In the case of new or expanded (reconstructed) gas demand facilities referred to in Article 15 (1) (a) to (d) of this Decree, the investor or operator is required to submit to the gas undertaking an expression of the relevant state energy inspection - if it is the industrial appliances of heating gases and the necessary supporting documents (for example, a sketch or prescribed design documentation), enabling the assessment of these gas installations in terms of their possibility of connection to the gas network and their testing.
(2) The data needed for the preparation of the supporting documents (e.g. the size of appliances, data relating to the construction of a control station, as well as other technical data, including the location of the meter) shall be communicated by the gas undertaking to the customer on request within 30 days.
(3) The gas collector shall be obliged to renegotiate with the gas undertaking the supporting documents if the assembly work on the gas demand facility will not start within two years.
Testing of gas sampling and installation and assembly equipment
Testing of gas sampling devices
(K § 17 of the Act)
(1) The professional technical examination of the sampling gas equipment (except for appliances subject to special regulations) 17) must be carried out by the operator (investor) with the relevant gas undertaking before the installation is put into service. The supplier of the equipment shall forward to the operator in advance detailed operational and safety regulations.
(2) In the case of propane-butane pressure stations, the technical inspection shall be carried out by the gas undertaking or its authorised organisation.
(3) The operator (investor) is required to request that the gas undertaking carry out a technical expert examination at least 14 days in advance.
(4) Technical examination (Section 17 of the Act) means an assessment of whether a gas sampling installation has been carried out under the conditions laid down by the gas undertaking and whether a initial revision has been carried out on the gas sampling installation in accordance with the regulation on checks, revisions and tests of the gas installations (18) without defects preventing the entry into service.
(5) The gas undertaking shall issue a certificate of the result of the examination to the extent referred to in paragraph 4 to the administrator, the owner of the construction or installation or, where appropriate, the operator (investor); the certificate is the basis for the management of the installation's permanent operation.
Implementation of assembly work
(1) Installation, assembly, repair work ("assembly work") on gas and demand gas installations can only be performed by qualified personnel of the approved organisation.
(2) A gas undertaking shall not attach a sampling gas installation if the assembly work has been carried out by someone other than the approved organisation.
(3) Organisations carrying out assembly work in new buildings or reconstructions on existing gas demand facilities shall notify the natural gas undertaking in advance of the implementation of such work so that the natural gas undertaking can ascertain whether the work is carried out properly, in particular whether the relevant legislation and technical standards are complied with.
Professional competence conditions for assembly work on gas and gas demand installations
(1) Only workers may carry out installation work on gas and demand gas installations
(a) with full secondary education or with a secondary education of the relevant or appropriate field of study; or
(b) teaching in the teaching field of plumber, pipeline and operating or mechanical locksmith, electromechanics (19) or in the teaching fields corresponding to the type of work performed;
who have at least one year of experience in the activities of gas and demand gas installations, have completed a professional course organised by the approved organisation and have a proof of its successful termination, authorising them to operate on those facilities.
(2) Workers who do not have the capacity referred to in paragraph 1 may carry out assembly work only under the direct supervision and responsibility of the personnel who have the capacity.
(3) The provisions of specific legislation and relevant technical standards apply to the implementation of welding works. 20)
Treatment of gas sampling devices when changing the type or pressure of gas
(K § 18 of the Act)
(1) If the change in the type or pressure of gas concerns a larger number of customers, it shall be discussed in advance with the relevant national committee. A change in pressure shall be considered as a change in pressure in a gas distribution device which requires the fitting or dismantling of a gas pressure adjustment device for the proper and safe functioning of appliances.
(2) The change of the type or pressure of the heating gases supplied shall be discussed by the gas undertaking with all the large customers concerned by the change at least 2 years before the beginning of the year in which it is to be carried out, unless they agree in advance on a shorter period. Other customers shall inform the natural gas undertaking 1 year before the beginning of the year in which the change is to be made, unless a shorter period is agreed. The administrator, owners, users of real estate connected to the public gas distribution shall inform the natural gas undertaking by means of a notice which shall be posted in each house connected to the public distribution.
(3) The gas undertaking shall inform the relevant national committees of the intended change of type or pressure to which it shall agree the timetable for the work carried out; At the same time, it shall inform the organisations in the area concerned which are involved in the implementation of the assembly work and agree with them the procedure and the timeliness of such work. The gas undertaking shall inform in advance the gas undertaking of the modification and sale of gas appliances.
(4) The treatment of domestic gas appliances, if owned by consumers, is carried out by the natural gas undertaking on its load. Appliances whose treatment would be uneconomic or technically unworkable or would not ensure safe operation shall be replaced with new appliances; the new appliance shall be provided by the gas undertaking to the customer. The difference in the value of the old and the price of the newly installed appliance is paid by the customer. The gas undertaking shall be entitled, in social cases, to waive, in part or in full, the price difference of the relevant national committee's observations.
(5) The modification of gas appliances in dwellings which are the owner of the user of the apartment or of members of his household or of the lodgers, but which have been connected without the consent of the natural gas undertaking, will be ensured by the owner for his cargo in the event that the natural gas undertaking agrees to keep the appliance for consumption connected.
(6) Managers, owners of real estate connected to a public distribution connection are required, except in the cases referred to in paragraph 4, to have their domestic pipelines, appliances and their accessories adjusted to maintain the principles of safe operation of such facilities.
(7) Managers, owners, users of real estate are obliged to allow gas company workers and, where appropriate, workers of organisations which have proven to be working on tasks related to the change in the type or pressure of heating gases, access to all the gas demand facilities in their buildings.
In the absence of access to appliances, the natural gas undertaking shall be entitled to suspend or terminate the supply of gas.
(8) Workers of natural gas undertakings and organisations responsible for carrying out changes in the type or pressure of heating gases shall, upon request, be required to demonstrate their identity by means of a civil and service card.
(9) Construction work related to the change of type or pressure of gas shall be reported to the construction office; repair of emergency state defects shall be carried out in accordance with generally binding provisions 21) as work on the removal of failures.
(10) The organisation which has made modifications to gas appliances in households is obliged to:
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Decree No. 175 / 1975 Coll., implementing certain provisions of the Gas Act |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 31.12.1975 |
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| Effective from | 01.01.1976 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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