Charter of Russian Railways in the new edition. Charter of the railway transport of the Russian Federation

Questions:

1. How many chapters and articles does the Railway Charter contain? transport of the Russian Federation?

2. Give the name and description of the chapters of the Charter of the railway. transport of the Russian Federation

3. What government and departmental acts that regulate in detail all aspects of the carriage of goods and passengers have been developed in development of the Charter of the railway. transport of the Russian Federation?

Literature:

1. Perepon V.P. "Organization of cargo transportation". Route 2003 (page 21)

2. The charter of the railway transport of the Russian Federation. M. Transport 2003

Charter railway transport Russian Federation contains 130 articles grouped into nine chapters.

In chapter I General provisions» the main objectives of the Charter and its scope are defined, a clear definition of the basic concepts used in the text is given, the procedure for the development and approval of the Rules for the carriage of goods by rail is established,

In chapter II "Transportation of goods, containers and wagon shipments of cargo and luggage" the procedure for concluding long-term contracts on the organization of transportation, the submission of applications for the carriage of goods and their implementation, the conclusion of a contract for the carriage of goods, the conditions for the preparation of cargo for transportation by shippers, the preparation of wagons, containers for loading by the railway and shippers, the procedure for performing operations for loading, unloading , sorting of cargoes and containers, when registering the reception and delivery of cargo.

The same chapter defines the obligations of the carrier for the delivery of cargo to its destination and within the established time limits to determine the amount of shortage, damage (spoilage) of the cargo and issue a commercial act to the consignee, check the condition, weight and number of pieces when issuing the cargo; set out the property liability of the consignor for the accuracy of the information entered in the consignment note; the procedure for making payment for the carriage of goods, cargo luggage and other payments due to the carrier, the procedure for redirecting goods and the procedure for resolving other issues related to the carriage of goods were determined.

Chapter III "Interaction between the infrastructure owner and carriers in the preparation and implementation of the transportation of passengers, cargo, baggage, cargo luggage" defines the procedure for concluding agreements between carriers and infrastructure owners on the provision of services for the transportation of passengers, cargo, baggage, cargo luggage, as well as the procedure for the access of carriers to the infrastructure.

Chapter IV "Railways are not common use» is devoted to the main conditions for the operation of non-public railway tracks and the regulation of relations between carriers, owners of non-public railway tracks, infrastructure owners, consignors and consignees.

Chapter V "Transportation of goods in direct mixed traffic" determines the procedure for organizing the transportation of goods in direct mixed traffic, the conditions for their transfer and reloading at transshipment points, establishes the procedure for charging fees for the transportation of goods, determining the delivery time and mutual property liability for non-fulfillment of the transshipment norm, non-preservation and delay in the delivery of goods.

In chapter VI "Transportation of passengers, luggage and cargo luggage" the conditions for the transportation of passengers, luggage, cargo luggage are determined, the rights and obligations of carriers, infrastructure owners and passengers are regulated, the main requirements for passenger cars, railway stations and other facilities designed to serve passengers are set out.

Chapter VII “Responsibility of carriers, infrastructure owners, consignors, consignees, passengers defines the responsibility of the parties for failure to comply with an accepted application for the carriage of goods, unsafe cargo and cargo luggage, delay in the delivery of goods and empty wagons and containers not belonging to the carrier, delay of wagons through the fault of the consignor and consignee, delay through the fault of the carrier of the supply of wagons for loading and unloading or on railway exhibition tracks, etc.

In chapter VIII "Acts, claims, lawsuits the procedure for drawing up commercial acts and filing claims and lawsuits against the carrier has been established.

Chapter IX "Final and Transitional Provisions" the date for the entry into force of the Charter was determined, the regulatory legal acts which remain in effect until new ones are adopted.

The charter contains only the basic conditions for the transportation of goods, passengers and cargo luggage, as well as the main provisions for the interaction of infrastructure and carriers in the preparation and implementation of transportation. It cannot foresee all the variety of specific conditions and peculiarities of transportation. Therefore, in its development, important governmental and departmental acts are adopted that regulate in detail all aspects of the transportation of goods and passengers.

Rules for the carriage of goods by rail- a normative legal act issued in accordance with the Charter and containing the conditions for the carriage of goods, taking into account their characteristics in order to ensure traffic safety, the safety of goods and rolling stock, as well as environmental safety. The approved Rules for the carriage of goods are binding on all individuals and legal entities (regardless of the form of ownership) using the services of public railway transport.

Specifications placement and securing of goods in wagons and containers, approved by the Ministry of Railways, Tariff manuals, service and job descriptions and instructions.

The service and job descriptions and instructions include: Instructions for maintaining station commercial reporting, Instructions for the transportation of oversized and heavy cargoes, Instructions on the procedure and technology for weighing goods, content and maintenance weighing devices, Instructions for the search for goods on railways ah, job description of the cargo receiver.

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Chapter 2

The charter of railway transport of the Russian Federation - legal basis cargo and commercial work

Significance of the Charter of Railway Transport of the Russian Federation

Carrying out the transportation of goods, passengers, luggage and cargo luggage, railway transport enters into certain legal relationships with consignors, consignees, passengers, individuals and legal entities, other modes of transport and vehicle owners.

Are common legal regulations, which determine the relations arising in connection with the activities of railways, are regulated by the rules of civil law, but they are not sufficient to regulate the relations arising in the course of transportation, since they do not reflect the specifics of the transportation process. Therefore, in Article 784 Civil Code the Russian Federation found that General terms transportation are determined by transport charters and codes, other laws and rules issued in accordance with them.

The most important legal acts regulating relations arising between railways and consignors, consignees and passengers are the Federal Laws "On Railway Transport in the Russian Federation" and "Charter of Railway Transport of the Russian Federation". Railway charter

Transport of the Russian Federation (hereinafter the Charter) dated January 10, 2003, which entered into force on May 18, 2003, regulates the relations that have arisen between carriers, passengers, consignors, consignees, owners of public railway transport infrastructures, owners of non-public railway tracks, other individuals and legal entities when using the services of public rail transport and non-public rail transport, and establishes their rights, duties and responsibilities. Having the status of a federal law, the Charter defines the basic conditions for the organization and implementation of the transportation of passengers, cargo, luggage, cargo luggage, the provision of services for the use of public railway transport infrastructure and other services related to transportation.

The Charter also applies to the transportation of goods, cargo luggage, loading and unloading of which is carried out in places of public and non-public use, as well as on railway lines under construction adjacent to public railway tracks.

The norms of transport law enshrined in the Charter are based on the provisions of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, the Law on Natural Monopolies, the Law on the Protection of Consumer Rights and other federal laws and international treaties in force in the field of railway transport. The Charter defines the procedure and conditions for interaction between carriers and infrastructure owners in the course of transportation by rail, provides for access to infrastructure on a non-discriminatory basis, creates equal conditions for the provision of services for its use by carriers, regardless of their organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership. The Charter establishes mandatory indicators for the quality of transportation of goods, luggage and cargo luggage (delivery time, safety of goods, luggage and cargo luggage) and service for users of railway transport services for all infrastructure owners, carriers and organizations, individual entrepreneurs performing auxiliary work (services) during transportation.

With acceptance federal laws"On Railway Transport in the Russian Federation" and the "Charter of Railway Transport of the Russian Federation" created the foundations legislative regulation activities of railway transport and ensuring its normal operation in market conditions.

Prior to filing a claim against the carrier related to the carriage of goods, a claim must be made against the carrier.

Documents confirming the claims made by the applicant must be attached to the claim.

These documents shall be submitted in the original or in the form of a duly certified copy. If necessary, the carrier has the right to require the submission of original documents for consideration of the claim.

The right to file a claim against the carrier related to the carriage of cargo, cargo luggage, or a claim has:

• consignee (recipient) or consignor (sender) - in case of loss of cargo, cargo luggage. The claim must be accompanied by a cargo receipt, a cargo-luggage receipt for the acceptance of cargo, cargo luggage with a note from the destination railway station about the non-arrival of cargo, cargo luggage or a carrier's certificate about sending cargo, cargo luggage with a note from the destination railway station about the non-arrival of cargo, cargo luggage, as well as a document confirming the fact the damage caused and certifying the quantity and actual value of the shipped cargo, cargo luggage without including lost income and unfulfilled costs;
• consignee (recipient) or consignor (sender) - in case of shortage, damage (spoilage) of cargo, cargo luggage. The claim must be accompanied by a railway bill of lading, or a baggage receipt and a commercial act issued by the carrier, or a railway bill of lading with the carrier's note on the preparation of a commercial act in case of its loss, or a railway bill of lading and documents on appealing against the carrier's refusal to draw up a commercial act, and also a document confirming the fact of the damage caused and certifying the quantity and actual value of the missing, damaged (spoiled) cargo, cargo luggage, parts, spare parts without including lost income and unfulfilled costs;
• consignee (recipient) or consignor (sender) - in case of delay in delivery of cargo, cargo luggage. The claim must be accompanied by a railway bill of lading, a baggage receipt;
• consignee (recipient) or consignor (sender) - in case of delay in the issuance of cargo, cargo luggage. The claim must be accompanied by a railway bill of lading, a cargo-luggage receipt and an act of a general form;
• the consignee, consignor, serving consignees, consignors with their locomotives, the owner of a non-public railway track - in case of payment of fines for the delay in the supply of wagons for loading and unloading, the delay in cleaning wagons from the places of loading, unloading or receiving wagons from the non-public railway track. The claim must be accompanied by a statement of the supply and removal of wagons, a memo from the receiver regarding the supply and removal of wagons, as well as a notice of the completion of the cargo operation or the transfer of wagons to the railway exhibition track, an extract from the contract for the operation of a non-public railway track or the contract for the supply and cleaning wagons, an act of general form;
• consignee or consignor - in case of return of payment for the time when tanks, bunker gondola cars are under cleaning at washing and steaming stations. The claim must be accompanied by an act of the established form on the underfilling of tanks, bunker gondola cars discovered at the loading point, paid bills for demurrage of cars under the act of underfilling of tanks, bunker gondola cars;
• consignee or consignor - in case of return of the carriage charge. The claim must be accompanied by a railway bill of lading or a cargo receipt confirming the acceptance of the cargo for transportation, and also, if additional collection of the amount of carriage charges at the destination railway station was carried out upon shipment, a certificate from the consignee's chief accountant. In the event of a failed transportation of cargo, the claim must be accompanied by a receipt of acceptance of the cargo with a note from the railway station of departure on the return of the cargo (the fact of the return of the cargo by the railway station of departure is confirmed by the signature of the consignor in the receipt of the cargo in the road list);
• the consignee or consignor serving consignees, consignors with their own locomotives, the owner of a non-public railway track - in the event of a refund of the fee for the use of wagons owned by other legal entities or individuals, fees for the supply and cleaning of wagons and for shunting work. The claim must be accompanied by a statement of the supply and removal of wagons, documents on payment, as well as an act of a general form drawn up in case of refusal of one of the parties to sign a statement of the supply and removal of wagons;
• a consignee or a consignor serving consignors, consignees with their own locomotives, the owner of a non-public railway track - in the event of a refund of fees for the use of containers owned by other legal entities or individuals located on non-public container yards. The claim must be accompanied by a record of the time spent by the consignor and the consignee in places of non-public use, documents confirming payment for the use of containers, as well as an act of a general form, drawn up in case of refusal of one of the parties to sign the record of supply and cleaning of wagons;
• the consignee or consignor serving consignors, consignees with their own locomotives, the owner of a non-public railway track - in the event of a refund of fees for the use of containers owned by other legal entities or individuals, when containers are removed from public places by means of the consignor, consignee, as well as organizations engaged in transport and forwarding service. The claim must be accompanied by orders of the established form, records of the time spent by the consignor and consignee in public places, as well as documents confirming payment for the use of containers;
• the consignor - in case of a refund of a fine for non-fulfillment of an accepted application or for failure to provide wagons, containers to fulfill an application. The claim must be accompanied by a registration card for the execution of the application, documents confirming the making of payments on the registration card, as well as an act of a general form drawn up in case of refusal of one of the parties to sign the registration card;
• consignee or consignor - in case of collection of a fine or reimbursement of costs incurred in connection with the submission of uncleaned wagons, containers for loading. The claim must be accompanied by an act of a general form and documents confirming the costs of cleaning wagons, containers;
• the consignee or the consignor - in case of a fine for the use by the carrier of wagons, containers without the consent of their owners. The claim must be accompanied by a railway bill of lading or a receipt of cargo acceptance, an act of a general form, an application for the search for goods and other documents confirming the use of wagons, containers without the consent of the owner, a calculation of the amount of the fine in case the carrier refuses to draw up an act of a general form, documents on appeal against this refusal;
• consignee or consignor - in case of collection of a fine and compensation for losses incurred as a result of damage by the carrier of wagons, containers or their components and parts belonging to consignors, consignees, other legal entities or individuals or leased by them. The claim must be accompanied by an act of a general form and other documents confirming the fact and amount of damage by the carrier to the said wagons, containers or their components and parts, as well as the calculation of losses incurred by the owners of the wagons, containers due to their damage, to the extent not covered by a fine;
• consignee or consignor - in case of loss by the carrier of wagons, containers belonging to consignors, consignees, other legal entities or individuals or rented by them. The claim must be accompanied by a receipt of acceptance of the cargo with a note from the destination railway station about the non-arrival of wagons, containers, documents confirming the ownership of the wagons, containers and their residual value, as well as technical data sheets, copies of permits for the running of wagons, containers on public railways, indicating the presence of a stencil on wagons, containers, their distinctive paint;
• consignee or consignor - in the event of a refund of a fine for the use of wagons, containers without the consent of their owners by the consignor, consignee serving consignees, consignors with their own locomotives, the owner of non-public railway tracks. The claim must be accompanied by an act of a general form, as well as documents confirming the payment of the fine;
• the consignee (recipient), consignor (sender) serving consignors, consignees with their own locomotives, the owner of a non-public railway track - in other cases provided for by the rules for the carriage of goods by rail.

The right to file a claim against the carrier related to the carriage of cargo, cargo luggage is also granted to the insurer that paid the insurance indemnity to the consignor (sender), consignee (recipient) in connection with the carrier's improper performance of transportation obligations.

The procedure for filing a claim by the insurer is similar to the procedure established for filing a claim by the consignor (sender), consignee (recipient).

Defines the rights, duties and responsibilities of the carrier, infrastructure, owners of the MNOP (enterprises, organizations, institutions) and citizens using the services of railway transport.

Brief historical overview.

1885 - General Charter of the Russian Railways

1920 - Charter of the Railways of the RSFSR

1927 - Charter of the railways of the USSR

1998 - Transport Charter of the Railways of the Russian Federation (Federal Law)

2003 - Charter of Railway Transport of the Russian Federation (Federal Law)

1. General Provisions

The definitions of the carrier, infrastructure, owners, MOP, MNOP are given, the types of transportation are given.

2. Transportation of goods, containers and carload shipments of cargo and luggage

3. Interaction between the owner of the infrastructure and carriers in the preparation and implementation of the transportation of passengers, cargo, luggage, cargo luggage

4. Non-public railway tracks

5. Transportation of goods in direct mixed traffic.

6. Transportation of passengers, luggage, cargo luggage.

7. Responsibility of carriers, infrastructure owners, consignors (senders), consignees (recipients), passengers

8. Acts, claims, lawsuits.

9. Final and transitional provisions.

Planning of cargo transportation.

Plans for the transport of goods in modern conditions developed for a monthly period.

"Monthly transportation plan" is an operational transportation plan

Provides:

1. Full and timely satisfaction of effective demand for railway transport services for the carriage of goods with the lowest transport costs.

2. Effective use rolling stock

3. Clear interaction with other modes of transport

Monthly planning of cargo transportation serves as the basis for the technical regulation of operational work and the determination of the following indicators:

Dimensions of movement by rail and directions

Standards for the maintenance of locomotives and locomotive crews

· Fuel and electricity consumption

· Parameters of regulation of wagon fleets by type of rolling stock for each railroad, for each inter-road butt point.

Financial expenses for the purchase of equipment and rolling stock

The carrying capacity of the railway

Monthly planning is carried out on the basis of data:

· agreements on the organization of transportation of goods, is concluded between large civil defense and railway;

· on the basis of applications of civil defense for the transportation of goods for all types of messages;

· based marketing research and forecasting of loading by nomenclature groups of goods.

Applications are submitted to the company's transport service system or directly from large consignors through the ETRAN-client system. All applications in the system of corporate transport services are classified:

For each departure station

For each nomenclature of goods

By type of shipment (carriage, small, container, route)

By wagon affiliation

By type of message

Applications for the carriage of goods in direct and indirect international traffic through border stations it is submitted separately for each border station, and in case of mixed traffic (railway and water) for each transshipment point.

The consignor of the shipment draws up an application for the carriage of goods in required quantity and provides the carrier at least 10 days before the start of transportation in direct communication and 15 days in advance in all types of international and mixed messages (in paper form). The validity of the application is not more than 45 days.

The carrier is obliged to consider the application within two days from the date of receipt and give a decision:

· Agreed

Refuse

· Agreed in part

The application is transferred to the owner of the infrastructure, is considered:

no more than 5 days - when transported by direct message

no more than 10 days - in all types of international and mixed traffic

and returned to the shipper.

In order to organize the timely execution of accepted applications for the carriage of goods, the carrier carries out continuous operational planning for loading on specific days of the application validity period.

The application contains the following data:

carrier - name and code according to OKPO ( all-Russian classifier enterprises and organizations)

period - the validity period of the application

type of shipment (carriage, container, small, route)

departure station, code

nomenclature group of cargo

type of message

consignor - full name and OKPO code

payer

wagon, container accessories

· shipment date

Destination stations, wagon codes, type of country of destination

Accounting for the implementation of the application is made according to the "Record card" of the GU-1 form. It is conducted by the carrier's representative for each consignor on the basis of agreed requests. Signed daily or on loading days by both parties (shipper and carrier)

Freight railway tariffs,
their meaning and construction system.

State Duma

Federation Council

(as amended by Federal Laws of 07.07.2003 N 122-FZ,

dated 12/04/2006 N 201-FZ, dated 06/26/2007 N 118-FZ,

dated 11/08/2007 N 258-FZ, dated 07/23/2008 N 160-FZ,

dated 19.07.2011 N 248-FZ, dated 14.06.2012 N 78-FZ)

(see overview of changes in this document)

Chapter I. General Provisions

Article 1 individuals and legal entities when using the services of public railway transport (hereinafter - railway transport) and non-public railway transport, and establishes their rights, duties and responsibilities.

This Charter defines the basic conditions for the organization and implementation of the transportation of passengers, cargo, luggage, cargo luggage, the provision of services for the use of public railway transport infrastructure and other services related to transportation.

This Charter also applies to the transportation of goods, cargo luggage, loading and unloading of which are carried out in places of public and non-public use, including railways non-public use, as well as on railway lines under construction adjacent to public railway tracks.

Article 2. The following basic concepts are used in this Charter:

carrier - entity or an individual entrepreneur who, under a contract of carriage by public railway transport, has assumed the obligation to deliver the passenger, the cargo entrusted to them by the sender, luggage, cargo luggage from the point of departure to the point of destination, as well as to issue the cargo, luggage, cargo luggage to the person (recipient) authorized to receive it;

public railway transport infrastructure (hereinafter - infrastructure) - a technological complex that includes public railway tracks and other structures, railway stations, power supply devices, communication networks, signaling, centralization and blocking systems, information complexes and a traffic control system and other providing the functioning of this complex buildings, structures, structures, devices and equipment;

infrastructure owner - a legal entity or an individual entrepreneur who has infrastructure on the basis of ownership or other rights and provides services for its use on the basis of a relevant agreement;

(As amended by Federal Law No. 258-FZ of November 8, 2007)

consignor (sender) - a natural or legal person who, under a contract of carriage, acts on his own behalf or on behalf of the owner of the cargo, baggage, cargo luggage and is indicated in the transportation document;

consignee (recipient) - an individual or legal entity authorized to receive cargo, luggage, cargo luggage;

cargo - an object (including products, items, minerals, materials, raw materials, production and consumption waste), accepted in the prescribed manner for transportation in freight wagons, containers;

Dangerous cargo - a cargo that, due to its inherent properties, under certain conditions during transportation, shunting, loading and unloading operations and storage can cause an explosion, fire, chemical or other type of contamination or damage to technical means, devices, equipment and other objects of the railway transport and third parties, as well as causing harm to the life or health of citizens, harm to the environment;

baggage - passenger's belongings accepted in accordance with the established procedure for transportation in a passenger or mail-luggage train to the railway station of destination indicated in the travel document (ticket);

cargo luggage - an object accepted from an individual or legal entity in accordance with the established procedure for transportation in a passenger, mail-luggage or cargo-passenger train;

carriage document - a document confirming the conclusion of a contract for the carriage of goods (railway bill of lading) or certifying the conclusion of a contract for the carriage of a passenger, baggage, cargo baggage (travel document (ticket), baggage receipt, baggage receipt);

public railway tracks - railway tracks in the territories of railway stations open for performing operations of receiving and departing trains, receiving and issuing cargo, baggage, cargo luggage, servicing passengers and performing marshalling and shunting operations, as well as railway tracks connecting such stations;

non-public railway tracks - railway sidings adjoining directly or through other railway sidings to public railways and intended to serve certain users of railway transport services on the terms of contracts or to perform work for their own needs;

owner of a non-public railway track - a legal entity or an individual entrepreneur who owns or otherwise owns a non-public railway track, as well as buildings, structures and structures, other objects related to the performance of transport work and the provision of railway transport services;

public places - covered and open warehouses, as well as areas specially allocated on the territory of the railway station, owned by the owner of the infrastructure and used to perform operations for loading, unloading, sorting, storing goods, including containers, luggage, cargo luggage of users of railway transport services ;

places of non-public use - railway tracks of non-public use, covered and open warehouses, as well as areas located on the territory of a railway station that do not belong to the owner of the infrastructure or leased to them and used to perform operations for loading, unloading goods, including containers, specified users of railway transport services;

transportation in international traffic with the participation of railway transport - transportation in direct and indirect international traffic of passengers, cargo, luggage, cargo luggage between the Russian Federation and foreign states, including transit through the territory of the Russian Federation, as a result of which passengers, cargo, luggage, cargo luggage cross the state border of the Russian Federation, unless otherwise provided by international treaties of the Russian Federation;

transportation in direct international traffic - transportation in international traffic of passengers, cargo, luggage, cargo luggage carried out between railway stations in different states or several modes of transport in different states under a single transportation document issued for the entire route;

transportation in indirect international traffic - transportation in international traffic of passengers, cargo, baggage, cargo luggage, carried out through railway stations and ports located within the border area according to transportation documents issued in the states participating in the transportation, as well as transportation by several modes of transport on separate transportation documents on transport of each type;

transportation in direct rail traffic - transportation of passengers, cargo, luggage, cargo luggage between railway stations in the Russian Federation with the participation of one or more infrastructures under a single transportation document issued for the entire route;

transportation in direct mixed traffic - transportation carried out within the territory of the Russian Federation by several modes of transport under a single transport document (consignment note) issued for the entire route;

transportation in indirect mixed traffic - transportation carried out within the territory of the Russian Federation by several modes of transport according to separate transportation documents on transport of each type;

special rail transportation - rail transportation designed to meet especially important state and defense needs, as well as rail transportation of convicts and persons in custody;

military rail transportation - rail transportation of military units and subdivisions, military cargo, military teams and individuals serving in the military, institutions and bodies of the penitentiary system, employees of the federal state security service;

fee - the rate of payment for an additional operation or work not included in the tariff;

collection of rules for transportation by rail - an information publication in which normative legal and other acts approved in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Russian Federation are published;

tariff guides - collections in which tariffs approved in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Russian Federation, rates of payment and fees for works and services of railway transport, rules for the application of such tariffs, rates of payment, fees, as well as lists approved by the federal executive body in the field of railway transport are published railway stations, distances between them and operations carried out in the territories of railway stations;

passenger - an individual who has entered into a contract for the carriage of a passenger;

(as amended by Federal Law No. 78-FZ of June 14, 2012)

(see text in previous edition)

railway station - a point that divides the railway line into stages or block sections, ensures the functioning of the railway transport infrastructure, has a track development that allows you to perform operations for the reception, departure, overtaking of trains, operations for servicing passengers and receiving, issuing goods, baggage, cargo luggage , and with advanced track devices, perform shunting work on the disbanding and formation of trains and technical operations with trains;

low-intensity lines (sections) - public railway tracks with low traffic density and low work efficiency, the criteria for which are approved by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Article 3 rail transport and the rules for the carriage of passengers, baggage, cargo luggage by rail.

The rules for the carriage of goods by rail are regulatory legal acts that contain norms that are binding on carriers, infrastructure owners, consignors, consignees, owners of non-public railway tracks, other legal entities and individuals, and regulate the conditions for the carriage of goods, taking into account their characteristics, traffic safety , safety of cargo, railway rolling stock and containers, as well as environmental safety.

The Rules for the Transportation of Passengers, Baggage, Cargo Luggage by Rail are regulatory legal acts that contain norms binding on carriers, infrastructure owners, passengers, senders, recipients, other legal entities and individuals, and regulate the conditions for the carriage of passengers, hand luggage, baggage, cargo luggage .

The rules for the provision of services for the transportation of passengers, as well as cargo, luggage and cargo luggage for personal, family, household and other needs not related to the implementation of entrepreneurial activities, are approved by the Government of the Russian Federation. These rules, in particular, define items that are not allowed to be carried as carry-on baggage, baggage, or cargo baggage.

(as amended by Federal Law No. 122-FZ of July 7, 2003)

(see text in previous edition)

Transportation procedure postal items and the procedure for including mail cars in trains are established by the federal executive body in the field of railway transport in agreement with the federal executive body in the field of communications. The main conditions for the organization and implementation of special and military rail transportation are determined by this Charter.

Features of the organization, implementation of military rail transportation and the procedure for their payment are regulated by the Charter of military rail transportation, approved by the Government of the Russian Federation, and other regulatory legal acts.

Passengers as well individuals who intend to use or use the services of transportation of passengers, luggage, cargo luggage for personal, family, household and other needs not related to business activities, as consumers enjoy all the rights provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation on consumer protection.

The rules for the provision of services for the use of the railway transport infrastructure are approved by the federal executive body authorized by the Government of the Russian Federation.

(as amended by Federal Law No. 160-FZ of July 23, 2008)

(see text in previous edition)

Features of the organization and implementation of special rail transportation are determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Article 4. Transportation of passengers, cargo, baggage, cargo-luggage shall be carried out on public railways and between railway stations open for the performance of relevant operations. The list of such stations and the operations they perform is compiled on the basis of requests from infrastructure owners, approved by the federal executive body in the field of railway transport, and published in the relevant tariff manual.

Article 5. Transportation of passengers, cargo, luggage, cargo luggage by rail is carried out respectively in wagons and containers of carriers, other legal entities and individuals.

Article 6

Features of the carriage of goods on railway tracks that are under construction before being put into permanent operation, and the provision of services related to these features, including responsibility for the time spent by cars on such tracks, are provided for in contracts concluded between carriers and organizations engaged in construction or operation of railway tracks under construction on behalf of the owners of such tracks. The procedure for concluding such contracts is established by the rules for the carriage of goods by rail.

Article 7. The centralized management of special and military rail transportation in rail transport is carried out taking into account the provision of traffic safety, as well as the protection of state secrets in the manner established by the Government of the Russian Federation.

The federal executive authorities, whose competence includes the organization and implementation of special and military rail transportation, interact with infrastructure owners and carriers through military transport authorities - military communications authorities and special rail transportation authorities.

(Part two as amended by Federal Law No. 122-FZ of July 7, 2003)

(see text in previous edition)

Infrastructure owners and carriers, in accordance with the procedure established by the Government of the Russian Federation, provide military transport authorities with necessary services to support their core business.

Military rail transportation is carried out on a priority basis.

In order to ensure especially urgent military rail transportation, carriers, in the manner established by the Government of the Russian Federation, form and maintain a reserve of railway rolling stock at the expense of the federal budget.

For the transportation of persons undergoing military service, service in the internal affairs bodies, institutions and bodies of the penitentiary system, employees of the federal state security service, wagons or seats in passenger trains are allocated.

The acquisition, maintenance and operation of special wagons for the transportation of convicts and the transportation of persons held in custody are carried out at the expense of funds provided for these purposes by the federal law on the federal budget for the corresponding year, in the manner established by the federal executive body authorized by the Government of the Russian Federation.

(as amended by Federal Laws No. 122-FZ of July 7, 2003, No. 160-FZ of July 23, 2008)

(see text in previous edition)

Infrastructure owners allocate, under the terms of a lease agreement, in public places on the territories of railway stations, the necessary places for the storage of special wagons.

Infrastructure owners and transporters provide the necessary conditions for transporting convicts and transporting detainees.

Article 8 ) special conditions for the transportation of such goods, luggage, cargo luggage and the responsibility of the parties for their transportation and safety may be established. The procedure for concluding such contracts is established by the rules for the carriage of goods by rail and the rules for the carriage of passengers, baggage and cargo luggage by rail.