The authorities will extend the moratorium on scheduled inspections of businesses, but it will only apply to small businesses – with an income of up to 800 million rubles a year and the number of employees up to 100 people. This is stated in the draft law of the Ministry of Economic Development (available at the disposal of Izvestia). Medium and large companies will not have to count on concessions, although back in May the government took their interests into account: the anti-crisis ban on inspections introduced in connection with the pandemic freed medium-sized firms from control until the end of the year, and large ones – for a month.
Due to the moratorium in May, the volume of control and supervisory activities has been significantly reduced, Deputy Minister of Economic Development Alexei Khersonsev told Izvestia.
“For six months of 2020, 46% fewer inspections were carried out than in the same period of 2019. If in the first months of the moratorium the number of inspections even reached a historical minimum, now we see the stabilization of the situation. Next year we plan to support business in the logic of earlier decisions, ”he said.
The innovation will save entrepreneurs from more than 300 thousand inspections, but will create a barrier to the growth and development of medium-sized companies, business representatives said.
Read more in the latest issue of Izvestia on September 11