The Duma adopted a law on the transfer of confiscation for the needs of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Emergency Situations

The State Duma adopted in the third, final reading a government bill providing for the gratuitous transfer of confiscated goods for the needs of the Ministry of Defense and humanitarian purposes of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, informed press service of the State Duma.

In an explanatory note to bill It is noted that things confiscated in the framework of criminal or administrative cases are now subject to destruction. At the same time, the Federal Customs Service (FTS) can transfer to social, educational and medical organizations things turned into federal property free of charge. These include medical devices that are subject to rapid deterioration of food, children’s and medical food, clothes, shoes, etc.

The bill amends part 4 of Art. 32.4 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. Now confiscated goods of light industry in the framework of cases of administrative offenses are subject to destruction, except in cases where gratuitous transfer is provided for by law, or such goods are transferred to the needs of the Ministry of Defense and for humanitarian purposes in the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The procedure and cases of such transfer shall be established by the government.

The law will come into force from the day of its official publication and will apply to all confiscated, but not yet destroyed, goods.

“The special procedure for the entry into force of the bill is due to the current foreign policy and macroeconomic situation and is aimed at the possibility of prompt gratuitous transfer of confiscated light industry goods in emergency situations,” the authors of the bill noted.

The bill was submitted to the State Duma at the end of January. How reportedits developer was the Ministry of Finance of Russia.