Article 14. Procedure for Exercising State Control over the Refining Activities of Legal Entities Engaged in the Industrial Extraction of Precious Metals

State control over the refining activities of legal entities (regardless of the form of ownership) engaged in the industrial extraction of precious metals shall be ensured by carrying out measures to control the production, processing, use, sale, storage and accounting of precious metals at the production facilities of these legal entities.

State control over the refining activities of legal entities engaged in the industrial extraction of precious metals shall be carried out on the basis of a schedule of measures for conducting control in relation to the relevant structural divisions of these legal entities.

When exercising state control over the refining activities of legal entities engaged in the industrial extraction of precious metals, authorized persons of the Assay Chamber shall have the right to conduct:

examination, inspection and view of production units where acceptance, shipment, sampling, chemical analysis, storage, production (refining) of precious metals and manufacture of products (items) from refined precious metals are carried out;

verification of the compliance of the production of precious metals at all technological stages and stages of processing (operations, redistribution) with the requirements of technological documentation;

checking the availability and correctness of maintaining documentation on the procedure for receiving, spending, accounting, movement and storage of precious metals;

verification of the correctness of the work with respect to determination of the content of precious metals in incoming raw materials, finished products (items), scrap and waste of precious metals;

verification of the correctness of transactions with raw materials containing precious metals;

verification of compliance with the procedure for receiving, spending, accounting, movement and storage of precious metals and products (items) from them, as well as maintaining relevant reports;

verification of ensuring the most complete extraction of precious metals from raw materials in accordance with technological standards;

verification of ensuring the completeness of accounting, collection, processing of scrap and waste of precious metals;

verification of the volume of supplies of raw materials subject to refining;