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Govt presidium to discuss bills to promote small, medium business
MOSCOW, July 14 (Itar-Tass) -- The Russian government has drafted a package of bills aimed at lifting administrative restrictions forentrepreneurship.
The government presidium will discuss the drafted bills on Monday so that the State Duma and the Federation Council could approve them already before October 2008. First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov reported about this issue to President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday,July 11.
Shuvalov noted that it is planned to introduce a notification procedure of establishing small and medium businesses operating in trade, catering and hotel business. "Still it is about ten categories, but there are some proposals to enlarge their list," the first deputy prime ministersaid.
Meanwhile, according to him, "The rights of interior departments will be restricted in their inspections that will require several amendments in the Criminal Code and the Code of Administrative Offences." "These inspections will be limited in time: not more than 70 hours for medium businesses and not more than 15 hours for small businesses. Meanwhile, repeated inspections can be carried out only under the warrant issued by a senior prosecutor," the first deputy prime minister said. He added that "a liability insurance will be introduced and instead of the compulsory certification - a declaration." The government has drafted four corresponding bills that will enter into force as of January 1, 2009, a source in the Russian government told Itar-Tass. The first bill envisages "the protection of businesspeople during state and municipal controlling measures." Scheduled inspections are expected to be held once in three years, and extraordinary inspections "only under the official authorization of a regional prosecutor." This law also envisages the notification procedure of launching business. However, this clause of the law is expected to be enforced as of July 1, 2009. The governmental source did not rule out that business beginners would filethis notification declaration even in the electronic form.
The next draft law stipulates to replace licensing of some kinds of activity with civil liability insurance. The source emphasized that the draft law envisages shipments by sea and water inland deliveries, loading and unloading services, as well as the postal service that require only third-party liability insurance. The same draft law envisages a possible automatic extension of the license term in other kinds of activity, if a businessperson did not commit serious law violations in the last five years. The license is extended within five days after a businessperson hadfiled a corresponding application.
The government also drafted a bill, which "rules out nonprocedural rights of interior departments during inspections in private companies." Since 2009 the police will be empowered to carry out inspections only under the procedures described in three statutory acts: the Code of Administrative Offences, inspections during search operations and the Criminal Procedural Code. The interior departments could earlier conduct inspections of businesses under numerous departmental standard acts. The source noted that beginning from the next year the police could hold an inspection "only according the officially reported information about a possible crime by a businessperson under three corresponding laws." The enforcement of one more law should result in a considerably cut list of types of products subject to compulsory certification. According to the source, 1,800 products or 85 percent of all the produce manufactured and sold in Russia are subject to compulsory certification now. In Europe this figure does not exceed 15 percent. "Our goal is to overturn this pyramid," the source said. The compulsory certification will embrace only "those products, which do not meet the standards and threaten the life, health and environment," for instance, the baby food, adangerous equipment or cars.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree, under which he instructed the government to daft and submit in the State Duma within two months several bills that envisage "urgent measures to lift administrative restrictions for entrepreneurship." Medvedev issued this decree almost in the wake of his inauguration on May 14. In this decree the president outlined the major principles of a new state policy on support to small and medium businesses. Under the decree the state should reduce the number of inspections, strip the interior departments of the nonprocedural rights in this issue and pass to the notification procedure of launchingbusinesses.
The source indicated that the government "fulfilled the presidential instructions within two months, and all four bills would be submitted in the State Duma in the next few days."
The government presidium will discuss the drafted bills on Monday so that the State Duma and the Federation Council could approve them already before October 2008. First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov reported about this issue to President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday,July 11.
Shuvalov noted that it is planned to introduce a notification procedure of establishing small and medium businesses operating in trade, catering and hotel business. "Still it is about ten categories, but there are some proposals to enlarge their list," the first deputy prime ministersaid.
Meanwhile, according to him, "The rights of interior departments will be restricted in their inspections that will require several amendments in the Criminal Code and the Code of Administrative Offences." "These inspections will be limited in time: not more than 70 hours for medium businesses and not more than 15 hours for small businesses. Meanwhile, repeated inspections can be carried out only under the warrant issued by a senior prosecutor," the first deputy prime minister said. He added that "a liability insurance will be introduced and instead of the compulsory certification - a declaration." The government has drafted four corresponding bills that will enter into force as of January 1, 2009, a source in the Russian government told Itar-Tass. The first bill envisages "the protection of businesspeople during state and municipal controlling measures." Scheduled inspections are expected to be held once in three years, and extraordinary inspections "only under the official authorization of a regional prosecutor." This law also envisages the notification procedure of launching business. However, this clause of the law is expected to be enforced as of July 1, 2009. The governmental source did not rule out that business beginners would filethis notification declaration even in the electronic form.
The next draft law stipulates to replace licensing of some kinds of activity with civil liability insurance. The source emphasized that the draft law envisages shipments by sea and water inland deliveries, loading and unloading services, as well as the postal service that require only third-party liability insurance. The same draft law envisages a possible automatic extension of the license term in other kinds of activity, if a businessperson did not commit serious law violations in the last five years. The license is extended within five days after a businessperson hadfiled a corresponding application.
The government also drafted a bill, which "rules out nonprocedural rights of interior departments during inspections in private companies." Since 2009 the police will be empowered to carry out inspections only under the procedures described in three statutory acts: the Code of Administrative Offences, inspections during search operations and the Criminal Procedural Code. The interior departments could earlier conduct inspections of businesses under numerous departmental standard acts. The source noted that beginning from the next year the police could hold an inspection "only according the officially reported information about a possible crime by a businessperson under three corresponding laws." The enforcement of one more law should result in a considerably cut list of types of products subject to compulsory certification. According to the source, 1,800 products or 85 percent of all the produce manufactured and sold in Russia are subject to compulsory certification now. In Europe this figure does not exceed 15 percent. "Our goal is to overturn this pyramid," the source said. The compulsory certification will embrace only "those products, which do not meet the standards and threaten the life, health and environment," for instance, the baby food, adangerous equipment or cars.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree, under which he instructed the government to daft and submit in the State Duma within two months several bills that envisage "urgent measures to lift administrative restrictions for entrepreneurship." Medvedev issued this decree almost in the wake of his inauguration on May 14. In this decree the president outlined the major principles of a new state policy on support to small and medium businesses. Under the decree the state should reduce the number of inspections, strip the interior departments of the nonprocedural rights in this issue and pass to the notification procedure of launchingbusinesses.
The source indicated that the government "fulfilled the presidential instructions within two months, and all four bills would be submitted in the State Duma in the next few days."
