Armenia: Law on population protection in emergency situations
This law defines the bases and the arrangement of population protection in emergency situations, the rights and responsibilities of state and local authorities, enterprises, institutions, organizations, irrespective of the organizational-legal type, as well as officials and the citizens in this sphere.
The law outlines what constitutes population protection and the main activities involved in ensuring it, while also establishing the organization of population displacement, and both shelter and individual protection. The role of rescue forces, and the main sources of protection logistics and financing are also described.