Article 25. Rights and obligations of experts in urban planning documentation

Experts in urban planning documentation have the right to:

participate in a comprehensive urban planning examination of urban planning designs for planning of territories as part of expert commissions (expert groups);

request and receive from customers and developers the necessary materials and information;

carry out examination of individual sections (parts) of designs in accordance with their specialization in urban planning and draw up conclusions pertaining to the parts thereof. Expert conclusions on individual sections (parts) shall not be the grounds for the approval of urban planning documentation as a whole and shall be used as inputs to the consolidated expert conclusions;

initiate a revocation by an expert organization of a previously issued expert conclusion in cases of non-fulfillment by the customer of the conditions (requirements) specified thereof;

Expert in urban planning documentation is prohibited from:

carrying out examination of designs in the preparation of which this expert took direct or indirect participation or which was developed with the participation of a spouse and (or) other close relatives;

being in labor, financial and (or) other dependent relationship with subjects of urban planning activities.

Expert in urban planning documentation is obliged to:

maintain confidentiality and ensure the safety of state secrets and other secrets protected by law related to the urban planning documentation;

improve its professional qualifications;

comply with the rules of professional ethics.

Experts in urban planning documentation may have other rights and bear other obligations in accordance with the legislation.

In case of a poor-quality examination, experts and expert organizations are liable in accordance with the law.

Experts and expert organizations carry out their activities independently from the subjects of urban planning activities. No one has the right to interfere with the work of experts or expert organizations during the consideration of urban planning documentation and the preparation of expert conclusions on them.