Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law No. 206-FZ “On amending articles 19.6.1 and 28.3 of the Russian Federation Administrative Offence Code” developed by the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia.
The document provides for issuing a warning or imposing a fine in the amount of 1,000 to 3,000 rubles on the authorities’ officials conducting control and supervisory activities for failing to submit information on inspections to the Unified Inspections Register (UIR), failing to meet the deadline for submitting data to the UIR twice or more in a calendar year, failing to submit the complete data or submitting false or unreliable data on inspections to the UIR twice or more in calendar year. The Unified Register is a federal state information system operated by the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation. The regulatory support is provided by the Ministry of Economic Development. In accordance with the current legislation, state control (supervision) authorities and municipal control authorities must submit data to the UIR on all ongoing and completed inspections and their results.
The Director of the Department for Control and Permitting Activities of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, Nadezhda Mashkova emphasized that the UIR is a significant analytical tool that allows accumulat the most complete and reliable data on inspections conducted in accordance with 294-FZ, provided on accurate and timely basis. “In this sense, the main purpose of the law is to discipline the inspectors and to encourage more responsible submission of data to the UIR, in order to improve the transparency of all supervisory and control activities,” stressed Nadezhda Mashkova.