How business solves the problem of payment for the removal of MSW – Economics – Kommersant

The practice of business disputes with regenerators on issues of payment for waste removal – “according to the standard” or “in fact” – differs significantly from region to region. Thus, Elena Gnetova, Commissioner for the Protection of Entrepreneurs’ Rights in the Republic of Karelia, complains that entrepreneurs in courts often lose to regional operators, as they formally comply with the current regulations. The regional business ombudsman proposes, in particular, to exclude the possibility of unilateral amendments by regenerative operators to a previously concluded agreement for the provision of services for the treatment of MSW without resolving disagreements with the consumer. But the head of the Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Entrepreneurs of the Udmurt Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Natalya Kudrina, says that in the republic, with the help of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, entrepreneurs have achieved payment for waste in fact from the container site (although now the regional operator imposes the frequency of export according to SanPiN, although the Ministry of Natural Resources explained that this is not applicable to separately collected waste ). The same applies to the imposition of unilateral changes to the contract, judicial practice and the assistance of the OFAS prove that if the contract is issued for export after the fact, then its unilateral editing is impossible. Igor Blum, general director of the KomEk waste processing complex in Tambov and head of the local branch of the Party of Growth, confirms that “the best option is to calculate fees based on actual accumulation”, calling on the business community to “more actively defend their rights”, and gives the example of the Tambov region, where with the help of the prosecutor’s office, the business sought to conclude contracts for waste management on their own legal terms.

Alexey Shapovalov, Diana Galieva