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Republic of Latvia

Cabinet
Regulation No. 263
Adopted 23 May 2017

Regulations Regarding the Subsistence Norms, and also the Amount of Hygienic and Basic Necessities for an Asylum Seeker Accommodated in the State Border Guard Accommodation Premises for Asylum Seekers and a Foreigner Placed in the Accommodation Centre of the State Border Guard or the State Border Guard Temporary Holding Room

Issued pursuant to
Section 21, Paragraph three of the Asylum Law
and Section 59, Paragraph three of the Immigration Law.

1. This Regulation prescribes the subsistence norms (hereinafter - the nutritional norms), and also the amount of hygienic and basic necessities for the following persons (hereinafter - the persons):

1.1. an asylum seeker placed in the State Border Guard accommodation premises for asylum seekers (hereinafter - the accommodation premises);

1.2. a foreigner placed in the accommodation centre of the State Border Guard (hereinafter - the centre) or the State Border Guard temporary holding room (hereinafter - the temporary holding room).

2. The nutritional norms for children in the age from six months to 18 years shall be determined based on the nutritional norms recommended in the laws and regulations regarding nutritional norms for educatees of educational institutions, clients of social care and social rehabilitation institutions and patients of medical treatment institutions.

3. The basic nourishment for newborn children and infants from the birth up to six months of age shall be mother's milk or an artificial mixture for infants according to the instructions of a medical practitioner.

4. For the persons of legal age the daily nutritional norms shall be determined in accordance with Annex 1 to this Regulation:

4.1. the daily nutritional basic norm No. 1;

4.2. the daily nutritional norm No. 2:

4.2.1. for pregnant women - six months before the planned term of childbirth;

4.2.2. for women - three months after childbirth;

4.2.3. women while breastfeeding - throughout the breastfeeding period.

4.3. the daily nutritional norm No. 3 - for the persons suffering from an active phase of tuberculosis, exacerbation phase of a gastric or duodenal ulcer, anaemia, malignant tumours, AIDS, malnutrition of a moderate or severe stage and are and receiving outpatient treatment;

4.4. daily nutritional norm No. 4 - for the persons who do not consume meat and fish products;

4.5. special nutritional norm - for persons who are brought out of the accommodation premises, temporary holding room, or the centre under guard for a short period of time or which are detained and cannot be brought back to the accommodation premises, temporary holding room, or the centre within less than four hours from the moment of detention.

5. According to the instructions of a medical practitioner:

5.1. for the persons suffering from diabetes the following may be substituted:

5.1.1. the norm of wheat bread with rye bread;

5.1.2. sugar with sugar substitutes;

5.1.3. pasta and two thirds of the (net) daily nutritional norm of potatoes - with 40 grams of groats or 400 grams of vegetables (net);

5.2. for the persons suffering from a digestive tract illness in an exacerbation phase, the norm of rye bread (according to nutritional norms) may be substituted with wheat bread.

6. The nutritional norm for the persons who are taller than 195 centimetres shall be specified in the amount of one and a half norms.

7. The interchangeable food products of the daily nutritional norm shall be determined in accordance with Annex 2 to this Regulation.

8. The persons shall be provided with drinking water at any time.

9. For the persons (starting from five years of age) the annual norm No. 1 of hygienic and basic necessities shall be determined in accordance with Annex 3 to this Regulation.

10. For children (from one year to four years of age) the annual norm No. 2 of hygienic and basic necessities shall be determined in accordance with Annex 3 to this Regulation.

11. For children up to 12 months of age - the annual norm No. 3 of hygienic and basic necessities shall be determined in accordance with Annex 3 to this Regulation.

12. For a foreigner placed in the temporary holding room - the norms of hygienic and basic necessities shall be determined in accordance with Annex 4 to this Regulation.

13. Cabinet Regulation No. 556 of 16 August 2016, Regulations Regarding the Subsistence Norms, and also the Amount of Hygienic and Basic Necessities for an Asylum Seeker Accommodated in the State Border Guard Accommodation Premises for Asylum Seekers and a Foreigner Placed in the Accommodation Centre of the State Border Guard (Latvijas Vēstnesis, 2016, No. 159), is repealed.

Prime Minister Māris Kučinskis

Minister for the Interior Rihards Kozlovskis

Annex 1
Cabinet Regulation No. 263
23 ay 2017

Daily Nutritional (Net) Norms

Table 1

No.	Product	Daily nutritional (net) norm (amount in grams)
No.	Product	No. 1	No. 2	No. 3	No. 4
1.	Bread from rye and wheat flour	150	150	150	150
2.	Bread from wheat flour	100	100	100	100
3.	Wheat flour	10	10	10	10
4.	Groats (in total)	50	50	50	50
5.	Pasta	50	30	30	50
6.	Meat	80	100	150	-
7.	Fish (fresh, frozen and salted, without heads)	80	80	100	-
8.	Melted animal fat	15	15	15	-
9.	Vegetable oil	15	15	15	30
10.	Sugar	40	40	40	40
11.	Natural tea	5	3	3	5
12.	Salt	5	5	5	5
13.	Potatoes	250	250	250	250
14.	Carrots	100	100	100	100
15.	Cabbage (fresh)	200	200	200	200
16.	Salad beetroots	50	50	50	50
17.	Onions	75	75	75	75
18.	Other vegetables	100	200	200	100
19.	Fresh fruit	200	200	200	200
20.	Dried fruit	15	15	15	15
21.	Milk	250	250	300	250
22.	Cream	20	20	40	20
23.	Curd	-	50	50	-
24.	Cheese	30	50	50	30
25.	Butter	-	10	10	-
26.	Yoghurt	-	125	125	-
27.	Eggs (pieces)	0.5	1	1	1
28.	Juice	200	200	200	200
29.	Confectionery	25	20	20	25
30.	Spices	0.3	0.3	0.1	0.3
31.	Tomato paste	3	3	3	3
32.	Starch	1	1	1	1
33.	Powdered milk	40	40	40	40
34.	Soy products	-	-	-	20
35.	Egg powder	-	-	-	20
36.	Beans	-	-	-	80

Special Nutritional Norm

Table 2

No.	Product name	Weight
1.	Banana crisps	100 g
2.	Oatmeal cookies with raisins	150 g
3.	Drinking water (still)	1.5 l

Minister for the Interior Rihards Kozlovskis

Annex 2
Cabinet Regulation No. 263
23 May 2017

Interchangeable Food Products of the Daily Nutritional Norms and Norms Thereof (Net)

No.	Product	Product to be substituted (amount in grams)	Substitute product (amount in grams)
1.	Bread from rye and wheat flour shall be substituted with:	100
1.1.	dried bread		60
1.2.	bread from wheat flour		90
1.3.	crispbread		80
1.4.	wheat flour		66
1.5.	different types of groats		66
1.6.	pasta		66
1.7.	pastry		80
2.	All types of groats shall be substituted with:	100
2.1.	pasta		100
2.2.	wheat flour		100
2.3.	fresh vegetables		500
2.4.	fresh potatoes		500
3.	Fresh potatoes and all types of vegetables shall be substituted with:	100
3.1.	groats, flour, pasta		20
3.2.	chives		200
3.3.	fresh garlic		20
3.4.	dried vegetables		10
3.5.	fresh fruit		100
3.6.	canned, salted or marinated vegetables		100
4.	All types of meat shall be substituted with:	100
4.1.	frozen, boneless meat*		80
4.2.	1st category sub-products		100
4.3.	2nd category sub-products		300
4.4.	half-gutted poultry meat		120
4.5.	poultry meat		100
4.6.	sausage, scalded sausage or half-smoked sausage		80
4.7.	canned meat		75
4.8.	fish (fresh, frozen and salted, without heads)		150
4.9.	canned fish		120
4.10.	soy concentrate products*		10
4.11.	cheese		48
4.12.	eggs (pieces)		2
4.13.	ground meat		80
4.14.	broth concentrate		80
4.15.	soy flour*		30
4.16.	egg powder*		30
5.	All types of fish (fresh, frozen and salted, without heads) shall be substituted with:	100
5.1.	various types of canned meat		50
5.2.	all types of fish with heads		130
5.3.	fish fillet		70
5.4.	ground fish meat		80
5.5.	canned fish		80
5.6.	meat (beef, mutton or pork)		67
6.	Melted animal fat shall be replaced with:	100
6.1.	margarine		100
6.2.	butter		67
6.3.	vegetable oil		100
6.4.	raw tallow		130
6.5.	bacon		100
7.	Whole milk (100 cm³ of milk equal to 100 g) shall be substituted with:	100
7.1.	kefir, sour milk or yoghurt		100
7.2.	powdered milk*		15
7.3.	sweetened condensed milk		20
7.4.	unsweetened condensed milk		30
7.5.	cream		15
7.6.	curd		30
7.7.	cheese		18
7.8.	eggs (pieces)		0.5
8.	Eggs (pieces) shall be substituted with:	1
8.1.	milk, kefir, sour milk or yoghurt		200
8.2.	meat		50
8.3.	fish		120
8.4.	egg powder*		15
9.	Sugar shall be substituted with:	100
9.1.	caramels		50
9.2.	preserves, jam or fruit purées		140
9.3.	marmalade		130
9.4.	cookies		100
9.5.	dried fruit		67
9.6.	fruit-juice gelatine concentrate		100
10.	Tomato paste shall be substituted with:	100
10.1.	tomato-based sauce		200
10.2.	tomato juice		500
11.	Fresh fruit shall be substituted with:	100
11.1.	fresh berries		100
11.2.	watermelons		300
11.3.	dried fruit		20
11.4.	preserved compotes		50
11.5.	natural juices		100
11.6.	preserved juices, which contain 50% of dry product		20
11.7.	fruit beverages		130
11.8.	fruit and berry extracts		10
12.	Fruit and berry juices shall be substituted with:	100
12.1.	canned fruit		50
12.2.	dried fruit		20
13.	Dried fruit shall be substituted with:	100
13.1.	fresh fruit		500
13.2.	fruit-juice gelatine concentrate		150
14.	Natural tea shall be substituted with:	100
14.1.	instant tea		80
14.2.	coffee drink		150
14.3.	instant coffee		100
14.4.	cocoa		150

Note. Interchangeable food products and norms thereof, which do not apply to minors.

Minister for the Interior Rihards Kozlovskis

Annex 3
Cabinet Regulation No. 263
23 May 2017

Norm of Hygienic and Basic Necessities

No.	Name and measurement unit of a washing product and personal hygiene product	Norm (per year)
No.		No. 1	No. 2	No. 3
1.	Toothbrush (pieces)	4	4	1
2.	Toothpaste (ml)	600 (1000-1500 ppm)*	300 (up to 1000 ppm)	150 (up to 1000 ppm)
3.	Toilet paper (30 m roll)	24	12	5
4.	Wet wipes (package)	-	15	20
5.	Sanitary towels for women - if necessary (units)	180	-	-
6.	Household soap (g)	2400	-	-
7.	Toilet soap (g)	1200	-	-
8.	Shampoo (ml)	720	400	-
9.	Disposable razors - if necessary (units)	36	-	-
10.	Disposable nose tissues (package)	24	24	6
11.	Cotton wool (g)	200	200	200
12.	Comb (pieces)	1	1	1
13.	Baby soap (g)	-	700	600
14.	Baby cream (ml)	-	400	400
15.	Baby oil (ml)	-	400	400
16.	Baby powder (ml)	-	300 (until two years of age)	400
17.	Pacifier (piecies)	-	1 (until two years of age)	3
18.	Bottle (pieces)	-	1 (until two years of age)	3
19.	Bottle nipple (pieces)	-	1 (until two years of age)	6
20.	Oilcloth (pieces)	-	1	3
21.	Diapers (pieces)	-	1100 (until two years of age)	1400
22.	Washing powder (g)	4800	3000	3000**
23.	Dishwashing detergent (ml)	2400	2000	2000

Notes.
1. * ppm (parts per million) - fluoride concentration in toothpaste.
2. ** Washing powder specially for children's clothes.

Minister for the Interior Rihards Kozlovskis

Annex 4
Cabinet Regulation No. 263
23 May 2017

Norms of Hygienic and Basic Necessities for a Foreigner Placed in the Temporary Holding Room

No.	Names and measurement units of hygienic and basic necessities	Norm (per person)
1.	Toothbrush (pieces)	1
2.	Toothpaste (ml)	50
3.	Toilet paper (rolls)	2
4.	Sanitary towels for women - if necessary (units)	15
5.	Toilet soap (g)	100
6.	Shampoo (ml)	60 (10 ml x 6 or 15 ml x 4)
7.	Disposable razors - if necessary (units)	1
8.	Disposable nose tissues (package)	1
9.	Comb (pieces)	1

Minister for the Interior Rihards Kozlovskis

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