RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE-RELATED LEGAL DOCUMENTS

to draw up a list of officials of organs of state power endowed with powers to class information as a state secret;

to draw up a list of information classed as a state secret;

to prepare proposals for organizing the drafting and fulfillment of state programs and normative and method documents ensuring the implementation of federal legislation on state secrets, and to submit them to the Russian Federation Government in accordance with the established procedure;

to examine proposals for the legal regulation of questions of the protection of state secrets and the improvement of the system for protecting state secrets in the Russian Federation and to submit them to the Russian Federation president and the Russian Federation Government in accordance with the established procedure;

to define the procedure for declassifying carriers of information which constitutes a state secret in the event of the liquidation of the fund-creating organization and the absence of its legal successor;

to organize the work of interdepartmental expert groups in declassifying and extending the periods of classification of CPSU and USSR Government documents and other archive documents in the event of the absence of the fund-creating organization and its legal successor;

to examine in cases provided for by the Russian Federation Law "On State Secrets" requests by organs of state power, organs of local self-government, enterprises, establishments, organizations, and citizens for the declassification of information classed as a state secret; to prepare expert conclusions on documents containing information classed as a state secret with a view to resolving the question of the possible handover of the said information to other states, and to submit these conclusions to the Russian Federation Government in accordance with the established procedure for a decision to be made;

to adopt decisions on the handover by an organ of state power, an organ of local self-government, an enterprise, an establishment, or an organization of information which constitutes a state secret, in cases of a change in their functions and forms of ownership and the elimination or cessation of work involving the use of information which constitutes a state secret, to another organ of state power, organ of local self-government, enterprise, establishment, or organization;

to prepare proposals on the procedure for determining the extent of the damage that could be done to the Russian Federation's security as a consequence of the unsanctioned dissemination of information which constitutes a state secret, as well as the damage done to enterprises, establishments, organizations, and citizens in connection with the classification of information in their possession, and to submit them to the Russian Federation Government in accordance with the established procedure;

to prepare proposals on the rules for categorizing the various degrees of secrecy of information which constitutes a state secret, and to submit them to the Russian Federation Government in accordance with the established procedure;

to examine, on the instructions of the Russian Federation president and the Russian Federation Government, expert conclusions for the purpose of determining the extent of the possible damage that could be done to the Russian Federation's security as a consequence of the unsanctioned dissemination of information which constitutes a state secret, as well as the damage done to enterprises, establishments, organizations, and citizens in connection with the classification of information in their possession;

to examine, on the instructions of the Russian Federation president and the Russian Federation Government, drafts of the Russian Federation's international treaties on the joint use and protection of information which constitutes a state secret, to prepare corresponding proposals and expert conclusions, and to participate in international cooperation on these questions;

to draw conclusions on the decisions of leaders of organs of state power connected with altering the existing lists of classifiable information in organs of state power, organs of local self-government, enterprises, establishments, and organizations which could lead to a change in the list of information classed as a state secret, and to suspend or appeal against their decisions;

to coordinate work on organizing the certification of means of protecting information;

to coordinate, in accordance with the established procedure, work on licensing the activities of enterprises, establishments, and organizations connected with the use of information which constitutes a state secret, the creation of means of protecting information, and also the implementation of measures and (or) the rendering of services to protect state secrets;

to resolve the question of extending the 30-year period for classifying information which constitutes a state secret;

to examine, on the instructions of the Russian Federation president and the Russian Federation Government, other questions in accordance with the Russian Federation Law "On State Secrets."

the first deputy leader of the Federation Council Apparatus;
the first deputy leader of the State Duma Apparatus;
the first deputy chairman of the Russian Federation Supreme Court;
the first deputy leader of the Russian Federation Presidential Staff;
the first deputy leader of the Russian Federation Government Apparatus;
the first deputy Russian Federation general prosecutor.

requests and receives from state organs, organs of local self-government, enterprises, establishments, organizations, officials, and citizens, in accordance with the established procedure, the information, documents, and materials needed to carry out the Interdepartmental Commission's activities;

sets up interdepartmental working and expert groups to ensure the activities of the Interdepartmental Commission; enlists state and nonstate enterprises, organizations, and establishments, as well as individual specialists, on a contract basis to carry out analytical, research, and expert work;

entrusts the preparation and holding of sessions of the Interdepartmental Commission to his deputies.

Ex Officio Composition of the Interdepartmental Commission for the Protection of State Secrets

The first deputy chairman of the Russian Federation Government
(chairman of the Interdepartmental Commission)

The chairman of the Russian State Technical Commission
(deputy chairman of the Interdepartmental Commission)

The director of the Russian FSB [Federal Security Service]
(deputy chairman of the Interdepartmental Commission)

The Russian Federation minister of atomic energy

The Russian Federation first deputy minister of defense -- chief of the Russian Federation Armed Forces General Staff

The Russian Federation first deputy minister of the economy

The first deputy chairman of the Russian State Committee for the Defense Sectors of Industry

The deputy director of the Russian FSB

The first deputy chairman of the Russian State Technical Commission

The first deputy director of the Russian SVR [Foreign Intelligence Service]

The first deputy general director of the FAPSI [Federal Government Communications and Information Agency]

The first deputy chief of the Russian GUO [Main Protection Directorate]

The first deputy chief of the Russian Federation president's Security Service

The first deputy chief of the Russian Federation president's Main Administration of Special Programs

The first deputy leader of the Federation Council Apparatus (by agreement)

The first deputy leader of the State Duma Apparatus (by agreement)

The first deputy chairman of the Russian Federation Supreme Court (by agreement)

The first deputy leader of the Russian Federation Presidential Staff (by agreement)

The first deputy leader of the Russian Federation Government Apparatus (by agreement)

The Russian Federation first deputy general prosecutor (by agreement).