The government will assign business inspections to the relevant departments

The Government of the Russian Federation will legislate the norm for conducting inspections of entrepreneurs only for the relevant departments. About it informed Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin at a meeting with Deputy Prime Ministers.

“Scheduled and unscheduled inspections should stop, unless their activities are associated with high risks of harm to citizens and the environment. We will replace them with preventive measures and enshrine in the legislation the rule that inspections are carried out only by relevant departments,” Mishustin said.

During the plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), President Vladimir Putin raised the problem that in the field of business inspections there is a “substitution of concepts”, since law enforcement officers began to come to entrepreneurs instead of control and supervisory bodies. In this regard, Putin called on the government, together with the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to additionally enshrine in the legislation the rule that inspections should be carried out only by relevant departments.

“We say there will be no checks, but in practice it turns out that there will be, only it is called differently and other people come. Of course, this undermines the confidence of business in the reform of the control and supervision sphere, and affects the work of business,” the president emphasized.

At the same time, the president proposed canceling business inspections if they are not associated with high risks of harm to humans and the environment. He noted that the number of business inspections has significantly decreased in Russia. In 2022, there were 339,000 screening events, which is 20% less than in covid 2020 and almost five times less than in 2019.