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 switchover to energysaving lamps in the country started in may and was completed by the end of the same year local authorities and social protection bodies were requested to provide energysaving lamps to low income families by october these families received about two million energysaving lamps due to compensation from the state budget in the amount of us million in the period two new plants for production of energysaving lamps have been built and put into operation each has a production capacity of three million lamps per year