Tel: +7 (861) 268-92-78 e-mail: kes@mail.kes23.ru HOME ABOUT COMPANY NEWS FOR CONSUMERS INFORMATION DISCLOSURE PARTNERS CONTACTS FEEDBACK news Industry news Results of the week of September 11-17: FAS will curb tariffs, the State Duma controls Transbaikalia. Results of the week of September 11-17: FAS will curb tariffs, the State Duma controls Transbaikalia. "The law is harsh, but it is the law," said the ancient Romans. A different formula of national character was derived by the Russian classic Saltykov-Shchedrin, who pointed out that the severity of Russian laws is compensated by the non-binding nature of their implementation. Igor Artemyev, head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, agrees with the great satirist, admitting that more than a hundred years later, domestic legislation contains many clever loopholes. Secret tricks and controversial projects, pilot projects and incurable debts - in the review "Energy and Industry of Russia". 12-th of September. Self-willed regions that set prohibitively high utility rates can be set aside. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has submitted to the government a bill proposing to introduce a ban on raising utility tariffs in excess of the limit values. Today, there are many opportunities in this area to circumvent the law, thanks to which tariffs for the same services in different regions differ by 50 or more times. As the head of the department, Igor Artemyev, explained, there are “many loopholes” in the domestic legislation that allow power engineers and utilities to “play along” and justify the rise in tariffs, for example, by the investment needs of the company. Moreover, the cost of housing and communal services, on the basis of which the tariffs are determined, also remains a secret behind seven seals, and the registration of forged documents that allow justifying the inflated cost is a very popular service. Industry experts fear that continuing to formulate tariffs on a cost-effective basis will not only become a heavy burden for thousands of Russian families, but also lead to popular protests, such as those that took place this year in Novosibirsk. September 14th. Meanwhile, one of the most controversial "communal" projects in Novosibirsk seems to have come to an end. The construction of a waste sorting complex near the village of Razdolnoye is prohibited due to its proximity to the Yeltsovka airfield. This is stated in a response to a request sent by PJSC United Aircraft Corporation to the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Novosibirsk Region Vadim Ageenko, who sent a request to build a landfill to the name of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Earlier, the project for the construction of two waste sorting complexes provoked protests not only by ordinary citizens, public organizations and environmentalists, but also by the deputies of the regional Legislative Assembly, who pointed out the flaws and risks of the concession agreement, such as compensation for the income not received by the concessionaire in the event that an insufficient amount of garbage is received at landfills. ... As a result, the governor of the Novosibirsk region, Vladimir Gorodetsky, announced the suspension of the "garbage" project, which requires further study and detailed coordination with the expert community, the deputy corps and the general public. September 14th. Energy efficiency will be stimulated not only by illustrative examples, but also financially. The Russian Ministry of Construction is ready to support lending for energy-efficient capital repairs of apartment buildings. According to the deputy head of the department, Andrei Chibis, we are talking about loans of up to 5 million rubles, which will be issued through the Fund for Assistance to the Reform of Housing and Communal Services. “The topic of overhaul is a huge market that needs credit resources,” the deputy minister announced. “These are banks, which are more and more willing to show interest in this market”. According to him, pilot projects for financing capital repairs are already being implemented. By the end of this year, the ministry will assess the results of the implementation of a pilot project on energy efficient overhaul, which is being implemented in the Sverdlovsk region. Earlier, the Ministry of Construction announced other financial solutions to promote the modernization of housing and communal services, such as a financial model for the issuance of infrastructure bonds, which will be submitted to the government by the end of September. “It is assumed that within the framework of this model, banks will lend to concessionaires who are modernizing communal infrastructure facilities,” explains Andrei Chibis. “Further, the rights of claim on these loans will be bought by the development institute, which uses them as collateral for infrastructure obligations.” September 15th. Those who are in no hurry to pay their debts are the structures of the Ministry of Defense, which "freeze" the beginning of the heating season. This trend is not observed in all regions, but the available evidence is sufficient to cause concern. At the beginning of this week, it was announced that 200 thousand residents of military cities in the Moscow region are at risk of being left without heat. At the end of the week it became known that the State Duma is taking control of the repayment of debts to the resource supplying organizations of the Trans-Baikal Territory, including the debts of the Ministry of Defense. It was the military "communal services" who formed a significant part of the 1.5 billion debt of the organizations of Transbaikalia, financed from the federal budget. It is impossible to influence these debtors at the regional level. According to the deputy of the State Duma from the region, Yuri Volkov, this decision is especially weighty for Transbaikalia, which is experiencing a lack of attention from the federal authorities. Until recently, threats to limit heat supply were the only instrument in the fight against debtors of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Defense. In a number of cases, power engineers moved from words to deeds, but the decisions of the courts and prosecutors put an end to the shutdown of military facilities. www.eprussia.ru - 22.09.2017 08:59 Helpful information Limiting consumption mode useful links Questions and answers Articles © 2008-2017 KES LLC 350000, Krasnodar, Gymnasicheskaya street 55/1