Decree of the Czech Office of Labour Safety and the Czech Mining Office No. 20 / 1979 Coll.
Decree of the Czech Labour Safety Authority and the Czech Mining Authority, which determines reserved electrical equipment and lays down certain conditions to ensure their safety
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Effective from 01.07.1979
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DECLARATION
Czech Office for Safety of Labour and Czech Mining Office
of 22 January 1979
determining reserved electrical equipment and laying down certain conditions to ensure their safety
The Czech Labour Safety Authority pursuant to § 5 (1) (d) and (f) of Act No. 174 / 1968 Coll., on State Professional Safety Supervision, (hereinafter referred to as "the Act ') and the Czech Mining Authority pursuant to § 57 (1) (d) of Act No. 41 / 1957 Coll., on the Use of Mineral Wealth (Upper Act), and pursuant to § 10 (a) and (c) of the Czech National Council Act No. 24 / 1972 Coll., on the organisation and extension of supervision of the State Mining Administration, in an agreement with the relevant central authorities provides:
Scope
(1) The Decree is binding on organisations covered by the competence of national professional labour safety authorities, (1) and on legal and natural persons engaged in business activities under the Specific Regulations (6) (hereinafter referred to as "organisations").
(2) The Decree does not apply to technical installations subject to supervision by the authorities referred to in § 3 (2) (a) and (b) of the Act.
Reserved electrical equipment
Reserved electrical equipment within the meaning of § 4 (d) to (g) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as "the equipment ') are:
(a) for the production, conversion, distribution and collection of electricity;
(b) intended to protect against the effects of atmospheric or static electricity.
Authorisation of organisations
(1) Organisations may:
(a) carry out revisions, assembly, repair and maintenance of equipment;
(b) to produce low voltage switchboards, in a supplier's way only on the basis of an authorisation.
(2) The authorisation is issued by the Labour Safety Inspectorate (hereinafter referred to as the "Supervisory Authority"), within the scope of which the organisation has its permanent residence, where appropriate, at the written request of the organisation.
The organisation shall indicate in the application:
(a) its exact name and address;
(b) the name and address of the establishment (s) for which the authorisation is sought if it is not at the headquarters of the organisation;
(c) the type and scope of the authorisation sought;
(d) ensuring the performance of the activity for which the authorisation is sought, in terms of technical equipment and professional qualifications of personnel.
(3) When verifying the organisation's competence, the supervisory authority shall ascertain whether its technical standards and competence of its staff (3) provide assurance that the activity with regard to the scope of the required authorisation will comply with the requirements of safety of work and technical equipment.
(4) The supervisory authority may, on the basis of the outcome of the proficiency check, lay down additional conditions to ensure the safety of work and technical equipment. The organisation must demonstrate compliance with these conditions before issuing the authorisation.
(5) Where the supervisory authority finds that the conditions are not complied with or that the rules to ensure safety of work and technical equipment are infringed during the operation of the authorisation, it shall restrict the scope of the authorisation or withdraw it from the organisation.
Obligations of organisations
(1) The supplier organisation is required to ensure, to the extent and under the conditions laid down by the regulations, the inspection of the equipment (revisions, tests, etc.) and to obtain documentary evidence thereof (reports of revisions, test reports, quality certificates and completeness, etc.) and to submit them with the equipment to the customer.
(2) Organisation carrying out installation of equipment
(a) electricity generation, conversion and distribution
1. in power plants with a rated power output of more than 5 MW;
2. in high, very high and particularly high voltage switching stations,
3. in transformers with a rated power output of more than 1 MW;
(b) electricity conversion, distribution and collection
1. with a total rated power greater than 0,3 MW;
2. Installed in potentially explosive atmospheres or spaces with regard to electric shock, particularly dangerous, 4)
3. in buildings designed to collect more than 250 persons,
is required to notify at least 15 days in advance to the competent supervisory authority within the scope of which the assembly work has been carried out, the termination of assembly as a whole.
(3) The organisation may notify the completion of the assembly of such parts individually if the equipment is composed of several parts that can be operated separately.
(4) Organisations operating an installation (hereinafter referred to as "operator") are required to ensure, in the framework of preventive maintenance, that prescribed inspections of the installation (revisions, tests, inspections, etc.) are carried out taking into account the conditions under which the installation is operated. For revision purposes, objects are divided into:
(a) A - objects without risk of explosion,
b) B - objects with explosion hazard.
(5) The records and documents which the operator is obliged to purchase (5) on the operation, revisions, detected defects, repairs and reconstructions of the equipment must be kept, unless otherwise specified, until the defects have been remedied, but at least until the next revision or control of the same scale.
(6) Only revision technicians may carry out initial and periodic revisions. The requirements for their competence shall be laid down in a specific Regulation (3).
(7) The installation referred to in paragraph 2 (b) (2) and (3) may be submitted by the assembly organisation to the customer only with the agreement of the supervisory authority. This obligation shall be deemed to be fulfilled for products which are products designated for conformity assessment under the Specific Law (3a) and the Government Regulation (3b) and for which a declaration of conformity has been issued.
(8) For imported equipment, the customer organisation shall ensure compliance with the obligations referred to in paragraph 2.
Transitional and final provisions
(1) An organisation operating an activity referred to in Article 3 shall, until now without authorisation, be required to apply for it within six months of the validity of this Decree.
(2) Authorisations issued to organisations before the validity of this Order shall remain valid for three years from the date on which the Decree becomes effective.
Paragraph 1 (c) of Decree No 151 / 1969 Coll., determining reserved technical installations, is hereby repealed.
This Decree shall take effect on 1 July 1979.
The President
Czech Mining Office:
Pastorek v. r.
The President
Czech Labour Safety Authority:
Dr Bartek v. r.
1) Paragraph 3 (1) of Act No. 174 / 1968 Coll., on State Professional Labour Safety Supervision.
3) Decree No. 50 / 1978 Coll., on competence in electrical engineering.
3a) Act No. 22 / 1997 Coll., on technical requirements for products and amending and supplementing certain laws, as amended by Act No. 71 / 2000 Coll.
(3b) Government Decree No. 168 / 1997 Coll., laying down technical requirements for low voltage electrical equipment. Government Decree No. 170 / 1997 Coll., laying down technical requirements for machinery, as amended by Government Decree No. 15 / 1999 Coll. Government Decree No. 176 / 1997 Coll., laying down technical requirements for equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres.
4) ČSN 34 1010 General regulations for protection against dangerous contact voltage.
5) E.g. ČSN 34 3800 Revision of electrical equipment and lightning pipes.
6) For example, Act No. 105 / 1990 Coll., on the Private Entrepreneurship of Citizens, Act No. 104 / 1990 Coll., on Stock Companies, Act No. 173 / 1988 Coll., on an undertaking with foreign shareholding, as amended by Act No. 112 / 1990 Coll.
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| Citation | Decree of the Czech Labour Safety Authority and the Czech Mining Authority No. 20 / 1979 Coll., which determines reserved electrical equipment and lays down certain conditions to ensure their safety |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 05.03.1979 |
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| Effective from | 01.07.1979 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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