At the round table of the Transport Commission held in the Moscow Public Chamber, the draft law “On the regulation of transport by passenger taxis” was discussed. Experts considered the current version of the law as a compromise for all industry participants and called for the law to be adopted as soon as possible.
The draft law on the regulation of the taxi market has been developed since 2015, because, according to experts, it is not easy to take into account the interests of all market participants and not “go too far” with regulation. According to the speakers, the authors of the current version of the bill were successful – in early July, the document passed the first reading in the State Duma.
According to the draft, the Ministry of Transport recommends allowing the self-employed to provide transportation services by passenger taxis if an agreement is made with a collector. This will significantly reduce the rate of bureaucratic delays in the work of drivers.
The bill also envisages requirements to increase travel safety. In particular, the self-employed will only be able to work if they are attached to the collectors, they will have to meet the driver requirements and will work on cars included in the relevant taxi car register.
Other changes that will result from the adoption of the law include the clear distribution of the rights and obligations of ordering services, or collectors, as they are commonly called, and the creation of unified registers for the entire country.
Roundtable participants discussing the draft bill pointed out that some provisions need to be clarified.
In particular, the speakers noted that the mechanism for issuing taxi licenses to self-employed drivers is not entirely clear.
Also, as the OP members highlight, the document provides devices for monitoring driver fatigue, but doesn’t explain the requirements for them.
In discussing this issue, Bohdan Konoshenko, Chairman of the MCCI Transport Services Development Committee, particularly emphasized the fact that the implementation of this requirement of the bill should not result in additional costs on behalf of carriers “in the current economy”. hard time.”
Another proposal was to clarify the rules regarding carriers’ liability by introducing carrier insurance, similar to other transportation sectors.
In general, the bill submitted for consideration was unanimously accepted by the attendees, but the possibility of further improvement of certain provisions of the bill was considered.