Security of critical facilities is ensured by the Assembly’s special model law

You must have seen Die Hard: terrorists seized an airport, infamously destroyed a plane full of passengers, dictated their terms to the authorities, and then a lone hero came along and saved the day.
So, here’s the thing: for such things to happen only in movies, everything connected with security of such facilities must be regulated by law. What if the hero oversleeps?
Model law On Security of Critical Facilities defines legal, organizational and social basis of safe operation and security of critical facilities, and also regulates relations in this area.
It was developed in accordance with the 2016–2020 CSTO PA Action Plan on Approximation and Harmonization of National Legislation of the CSTO Member States for the following reasons.
First, in recent years, the number of critical facilities (hereinafter referred to as CF) in the system of social and economic infrastructure of CSTO Member States has increased dramatically.
Second, consequences for the state, society and individuals in case of normal operation of such facilities is disrupted or terminated became significantly more dangerous (just remember Chernobyl or Fukushima).
Third, the range of security threats to such facilities has expanded and their nature and intensity have changed.
Fourth, most CSTO Member States lacked a regulatory framework to ensure the normal functioning of CF, as well as to prevent, detect, eliminate or localize security threats.
Therefore, this model law was prepared and adopted to develop a new coordinated policy in the CSTO area, to harmonize legislative solutions of the CSTO States in the area of CF security and regulation of the already established social relations in this area.
The draft Model Law On Security of Critical Facilities was developed in close cooperation by the experts from the Republic of Belarus from the Institute of National Security of the Republic of Belarus, Academy of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Belarus and Institute of the Border Guard Service of the Republic of Belarus.
The model law consists of nine chapters and forty articles, which address in detail all possible aspects of relations arising when a facility is given the status of critical; ensuring its normal operation and its security; types of security threats and responses to them; types of liability for violation of CF security laws; insurance and compensation systems, and much more, up to exclusion of social and economic infrastructure facilities from the list of critical. There is a separate chapter, by the way, that deals with this issue.
Types of control over CF and the state and non-state bodies authorized to do so are discussed in no less detail.
Model Law On Security of Critical Facilities was adopted by the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly and approved by the resolution of October 30, 2018.
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