IMPORTANT
take into account in the work of transport companies!
Video surveillance systems and equipment are related to technical means of ensuring transport security. Their installation, operation and certification are regulated by regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation.
Violation of established requirements, including the use of uncertified devices, is an offense that provides for fines. Supervisory bodies authorized to monitor compliance with requirements for video surveillance systems and equipment are divisions of Rostransnadzor, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB, and in the event of suspension of the enterprise's activities, the decision is made by judicial bodies.
GROUNDS
for mandatory equipping of vehicles with video surveillance systems.
The equipping of vehicles with video surveillance systems is stipulated by the current regulations of the Federal Law "On Transport Security"
According to the requirements of the law, vehicles that carry out regular transportation of passengers and baggage or transportation of passengers and baggage on request or used to transport dangerous goods, for which a special permit is required, as well as urban ground electric transport vehicles are subject to equipment with technical means of ensuring transport security. Video surveillance systems are classified as technical means of ensuring transport security.
LEGAL AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORK,
defining the requirements for video surveillance systems:
- Federal Law No. 16-FZ of 09.02.2007 “On Transport Security” (hereinafter – FZ-16);
APPLICATION SCOPE
video surveillance systems and equipment.
According to subparagraphs a) and g) of paragraph 11) of Article 1 of Federal Law No. 16, the concept of “vehicles” within the framework of the law extends to:
- motor vehicles intended for the carriage of individuals, cargo, baggage, hand luggage, personal belongings, animals or equipment, used for the regular carriage of passengers and baggage or the carriage of passengers and baggage on request, or used for the carriage of dangerous goods, for which a special permit is required;
- urban ground electric transport vehicles.
The requirement to equip vehicles with technical means to ensure transport safety was approved by Government Resolution No. 924, which was later replaced by Resolution No. 1640 of October 8, 2020.
According to the totality of legal norms, the following types of vehicles are subject to equipping with means of ensuring transport safety:
- carrying out regular passenger transportation (categories M2 and M3),
- carrying out passenger transportation on request (categories M2 and M3);
- carrying out transportation of dangerous goods (categories N1, N2, N3);
- carrying out the transportation of passengers and goods by ground electric transport (trams and trolleybuses).
APPROVAL OF REQUIREMENTS
to video surveillance systems and equipment.
Government Resolution No. 969 establishes that technical means of ensuring transport security include video surveillance and video recording systems and means, which must ensure:
- video detection of video surveillance objects in the cabin (driver's compartment) of a vehicle and on the entry routes into the vehicle's passenger compartment;
- transmission of video images in accordance with the data transmission procedure;
- detection of the penetration of an intruder into the transport security zone of a vehicle or part thereof and (or) into critical elements of the vehicle.
Technical and functional requirements for such systems are approved by Government Resolution No. 969 and include the following requirements:
- to the functional properties of video signal sources (section V);
- to technical systems and video recording equipment (section VII).
In accordance with technical requirements, video cameras and video recorders must have the following characteristics:
a) resolution (number of pixels in each frame) - not less than 1.2 megapixels;
b) horizontal frame resolution - not less than 1200 pixels;
c) vertical frame resolution - not less than 1000 pixels;
d) the geometric parameters of the pixel must comply with the requirements of GOST R ISO/IEC 19794-5-2013 “Information technology. Biometrics. Biometric data exchange formats. Part 5. Facial image data”;
d) the use of interlaced scanning is not permitted;
e) the horizontal optical resolution must be at least 800 lines per horizontal frame size;
g) the vertical optical resolution must be at least 650 lines per vertical frame size;
h) relative distortion according to GOST 20825-75 “Shooting lenses. Methods for measuring aberrations” — no more than 1 percent;
i) vignetting coefficient according to GOST 24775-81 “Objectives. Methods for measuring vignetting” — not less than 0.9.
Also, in accordance with Part 8 of Article 12.2 of the Federal Law of 09.02.2007 No. 16-FZ “On Transport Security” , technical means of ensuring transport security are subject to mandatory certification.
RESPONSIBILITY,
provided by law.
Liability for failure to comply with transport safety requirements in terms of the use and operation of video surveillance systems and equipment is provided for in Article 11.15.1 of the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses dated 30.12.2001 N 195-FZ.
In accordance with Part 1 of Article 11.15.1:
“Failure to comply with the requirements for ensuring transport security or failure to comply with the requirements for maintaining transport security, committed through negligence, if these actions (inactions) do not contain a criminally punishable act, -
shall entail the imposition of an administrative fine... on officials - from twenty thousand to thirty thousand rubles; on individual entrepreneurs - from thirty thousand to fifty thousand rubles; on legal entities - from fifty thousand to one hundred thousand rubles."
Repeated commission of an offence is punishable in accordance with the provisions of Part 2 of Article 11.15.1:
“Repeated commission of an administrative offense provided for in Part 1 of this article, -
shall entail the imposition of an administrative fine... on officials - from thirty thousand to fifty thousand rubles; on individual entrepreneurs - from fifty thousand to seventy thousand rubles or administrative suspension of activity for a period of up to ninety days; on legal entities - from one hundred thousand to two hundred thousand rubles or administrative suspension of activity for a period of up to ninety days ."
Intentional actions (inactions) are punishable under Part 3 of Article 11.15.1:
“The action (inaction) provided for in Part 1 of this article, committed intentionally, -
shall entail the imposition of an administrative fine ... on officials - from fifty thousand to one hundred thousand rubles or administrative arrest for a term of up to ten days; on individual entrepreneurs - from one hundred thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand rubles with or without confiscation of the instrument or objects of the administrative offense, or administrative suspension of activity for a term of up to ninety days; on legal entities - from two hundred thousand to five hundred thousand rubles with or without confiscation of the instrument or objects of the administrative offense, or administrative suspension of activity for a term of up to ninety days.
Note. For administrative offenses provided for by this article, persons engaged in entrepreneurial activity without forming a legal entity shall bear administrative liability as legal entities."
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