Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers No.972

Riga, November 30, 2004 (prot. No.68 3.§)

Regulations of the State Energy Inspection

Issued in compliance to the Section 1 of the Article 16 of the Law on the State Administration System

I. General issues

1. The State Energy Inspection (further in the text referred to as the Energy Inspection) is a direct administration institution subordinated to the Minister of Economy.

2. The purpose of the operation of the Energy Inspection shall be the state technical supervision and control of the merchants’ plants and power consumption equipment and installations, control and supervision of the fulfilment of the energy quality requirements and compliance, as well as the supervision of the market of the equipment and protection systems used in the energy supply.

II. The functions and competence of the Energy Inspection

3. The Energy Inspection shall perform the functions defined in the Law on Energy.

4. The Energy Inspection in compliance to its competence shall be entitled to do the following:

4.1. to issue statements as well as to perform other actions defined in  the regulatory acts;

4.2. to draw up the protocols on administrative breaches and impose the administrative penalties in compliance to the Code on Administrative Breaches of Latvia;

4.3. to require and receive free of charge from the law enforcement, medical treatment and fire security services the information at their disposal necessary for the purpose if investigating the accidents and emergencies of the energy supply systems in the plants of the merchants of energy supply;

4.4. to require information from the energy supply merchants.

5. The employees of the Energy Inspection performing the supervision and control in the energy supply commercial companies shall be entitled upon the presentation of their identity card to inspect the compliance of the equipment used in the energy supply to the requirements defined in the regulatory acts regulating the safety of the devices and compliance assessment.

III. Structure of the Energy Inspection

6. The Energy Inspection shall be managed by the Director of the Energy Inspection. Following the approval of the candidate in the Cabinet of Ministers the Director of the Energy Inspection shall be appointed to the office and dismissed by the Minister of Economy.

7. The Director of the Energy Inspection shall establish the internal organisational structure of the Energy Inspection.

8. The Director of the Energy Inspection shall perform the direct functions of the manager of the administration institution as defined in the Law on State Administration.

IV. Provision of the legality of the operation of the State Energy Inspection and submission of reports

9. The legality of the operation of the Energy Inspection shall be ensured by the Director of the Energy Inspection. The Director shall be responsible for the establishment and maintenance of the system of inspection of the internal control and administration resolutions.

10. The Director of the Energy Inspection shall be entitled to cancel illegal resolutions passed by the officials of the Energy Inspection and the internal regulatory acts.

11. The Director of the Energy Inspection shall pass the resolution on the actual acts performed by the official or employee of the Energy Inspection or on the administrative acts issued by the official of the Energy Inspection which have been appealed against if the regulatory acts do not provide otherwise.

12. The administrative acts issued by the Energy Inspection and the resolutions passed by the Director of the Energy Inspection can be appealed against in the Ministry of Economy in compliance to the procedure provided for in the Law on the Administrative Process.

13. The Energy Inspection shall submit the report on the operation of the Energy Inspection and completion of its functions during the previous year as well as the report on the utilisation of the financial resources to the Ministry of Economy on annual basis until April 1.

Prime Minister I.Emsis

Minister of Economy J.Lujāns

Editorial note: the present Regulations shall enter into force as from December 4, 2004.