YEREVAN, JUNE 4, NOYAN TAPAN. It is the second year that AEG Service company has provided technical services for in-house gas consumption systems in Armenia. The director of the company Samvel Mherian said at the June 4 meeting with representatives of NGOs that 432,487 checkups were made and 410,863 users were serviced last year. 70,956 protocols on technical safety violations were drawn up as a result of these checkups. In accordance with agreements signed with residents, an employee of the system must make two checkups a year. The company also plans to install gas boilers - on conditions that the installation sum will be paid later. The deputy director of ArmRusgasprom company Ashot Hovsepian said that the use of gas stoves and old water heaters currently causes concern from the viewpoint of in-house systems' safety. He reminded that ArmRusgasprom is responsible for safety of these systems. By a decision, the annual payment for technical services has been established at 2,400 drams (about 7.8 dollars) for one gas appliance, at 5,700 drams for two, and the payment makes 6,900 drams in case of availability of three and more gas appliances.

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