The Service has started developing appropriate institutional capacity and regulatoiy and logistical frameworks for its successful operation. The Law sets out measures for the social protection of citizens living and working in the vicinity of nuclear facilities, sources of radiation and nuclear storage facilities. The process of mass switch-over to energy'-saving lamps in the country' started in May 2009 and was completed by the end of the same year. Local authorities and social protection bodies were requested to provide energy-saving lamps to 241,000 low income families by October 2009. These families received about two million energy'-saving lamps, due to compensation from the state budget in the amount of US$3.3 million. In the period 2009-2011, two new plants for production of energy-saving lamps have been built and put into operation, each has a production capacity of three million lamps per year.