Technical Servicing and Guaranteed Repair of Household Equipment and Appliances

Abstract

In the broad program of further socioeconomic development of the country advanced by the Twenty-fifth Congress of the CPSU, there is provision for a considerable increase in manufacture of cultural and household commodities and in the volume of sales of household services to the population. In his report to the congress, L. I Brezhnev emphasized: "A rise in the well-being of the working population is indivisible from more complete satisfaction of the population's demand for various commodities and services." In this regard maximal satisfaction of citizens' needs for technical servicing and guaranteed repair of household appliances and improvement in legal regulation of relations between industrial enterprises and service industries in providing these services are of great importance. In accordance with the decree of the USSR Council of Ministers "On Measures to Improve the Organization of Repair of Household Equipment and Appliances Belonging to Citizens," dated June 4, 1974 (1), the State Arbitration of the USSR Council of Ministers issued, by degrees of March 31, 1975 (2), the following normative acts: (a) a model contract for technical servicing and repair of cultural and household products during the period covered by the guarantee; (b) a model contract for technical servicing of TVs and radiophonographs and for the repair of household TV-radiophonographs and tape recorders during the period covered by the guarantee; and (c) the Procedure for relations between production associations and enterprises for consumer services [on the one hand] and associations or enterprises manufacturing household equipment and appliances [on the other hand] with respect to their technical servicing and repair during the guarantee period in the absence of a contract. Let us examine certain pressing problems of regulation of economic relationships by these normative acts.