General Information

The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Azerbaijan is a central executive body responsible for the following areas:

- civil defense;
- protection of the population from natural (geophysical, geological, meteorological, hydrological, maritime hydrological contingencies, natural fires, etc.) and man-made (arsons, explosions, collapse of buildings and constructions, chemical, biological and radiological hazards, accidents in electric power supply system, vital utilities, waste treatment facilities, breakdowns in hydrodynamic installations, oil and gas production units, main pipelines, transportation and traffic accidents, etc.) disasters:

- prevention of emergency situations and elimination of their consequences;

- fire security;
- safety of people in water basins;
- security of smaller vessels’ operations;
- technical safety in industry and mountain-mine works

- safety in construction;
- drafting of government policy and regulations on the state material reserves funds;
- management, coordination and supervision on the areas mentioned above;
- protection of strategic facilities, objects and installations in cases of occurrence of an emergency situations