What to expect in business in 2024?
On the instructions of the president, the government extended the ban on unscheduled inspections at workplaces for the next year. About This Cabinet reported On your Telegram channel.
There are exceptions – same as this year:
- High-risk facilities can be inspected without warning (for example these include educational institutions);
- Unscheduled inspections of entrepreneurs whose work could threaten the life and health of citizens or the security of the country are still allowed;
- Unannounced inspections may be acceptable if the supervisor receives a complaint or other information that a company has violated mandatory requirements and deviated from “risk indicators”. (for example, information about an emergency appears during construction, or in some places the fire alarm alarm is accidentally triggered too often).
“The moratorium has already proven itself. This allowed us to significantly reduce the number of inspections by almost five times compared to 2019,” said Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
He added that the reduction in inspections allowed the business to devote more energy to completing existing tasks, “expanding projects and developing new markets.”
As for planned inspections, for 2024 the prosecutor’s office approved about 93 thousand cases – Four times less than in 2022. At the same time, the Council of Ministers announced that in many cases these visits are being replaced by preventive visits.
“It allows organizations to proactively identify deficiencies and correct them without penalty,” the government explained in the post.
According to the Council of Ministers, by the end of November the number of preventive visits exceeded the number of inspections by almost three times.
“The prosecution always gives longer sentences”
Moratorium on unscheduled business inspections in effect From March 2022.
At the end of November, Vladimir Putin at a meeting with the government offered Extension of the moratorium until 2024. Mishustin said he discussed the issue with the prosecutor’s office and suggested extending the measure for a longer period.
“The prosecution always offers a longer term, and you and I must decide which is most appropriate,” the head of state said.
To this, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko responded, “Vladimir Vladimirovich, but any deadline you set will be the correct deadline for us.”
business response
Billionaire Oleg Deripaska named This step is bold and important for the growth of the Russian economy under sanctions.
“It is difficult to imagine what kind of resistance traditional auditors had to suppress,” the businessman said.
According to Deripaska, the basis of the new Russian economy should be “freedom of entrepreneurship and trade”.
Limiting audits that “every business needs without exception”, stated Marina Bludyan, vice president of the Russian entrepreneurs association “Opora Rossii”, informed Kommersant.
“This is not just a moratorium to give everyone a chance to breathe; risk indicators are currently being worked on for which inspections can already be carried out.” <…>. The risk-oriented approach will be fully implemented and we will see a period in which not a single audit will pass without reason. “Once you can influence your risk category, the honesty mechanism will start working,” he explained.
It is necessary to prohibit unscheduled work inspections because Now some entrepreneurs are experiencing great difficulties due to sanctions and difficulties with imported equipmentTamara Nekhorosheva, founder of Akvareli dry cleaning and laundry, said:
“In this case, we need to at least eliminate the problem related to inspections. I support extending the moratorium. “It is very important that we do not get distracted on this issue.”
Moratorium and “nalivayki”
Despite the moratorium, some State Duma deputies are organizing surprise raids on nalivikas. (alcohol stores open in residences, including at night). The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, complained about this to the Chairman of the State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, sending him a corresponding letter: reported RBC 13 December.
Kolokoltsev noted that not only “individual deputies” violated the moratorium, but also involved the media in the checks, creating “a false impression of the long-term inaction of the police against sellers of alcoholic beverages.”
Deputy Biysultan Khamzaev (United Russia), who organized such raids, later stated that the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was “framed”, that the letter was written not by him, but by the press service:
“I ask the Ministry of Internal Affairs employees who prepared the documents not to expose the minister with such letters. I know Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kolokoltsev’s attitude towards fake alcohol, especially on New Year’s Eve. Maximum hard and verified. “This is not in the spirit of the letter.”
Khamzaev also stated that the letter contained “some legal inaccuracies” because the moratorium on inspection of alcohol outlets “was effectively lifted by the decision of the Prime Minister on October 10.” On this day Vedomosti newspaper reportedThe government instructed the Ministry of Economic Development to work on resuming inspections of companies selling alcohol and tobacco products.
First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Economic Policy Committee Nikolai Arefyev at a meeting in November “socialbites.ca” Noting that many Russians complain about nalivayki, he vowed to raid them:
“In some areas they say: [наливайки] They do not interfere, but most likely because these liquors are not nearby. <…> It reaches catastrophic proportions when they are located in residential buildings. They shop there, drink in the courtyards and playgrounds. “Although the entrance to Nalivayka is from the street, it prevents people from resting.”