The government has updated the list of mandatory requirements to safety of buildings — such rules now there are about 10 thousand As follows from the published yesterday the decree of the government, from them 3 thousand from 1 August will only be Advisory in nature. This reduction is provided primarily by exclusion from the list of redundant and duplicative requirements — the authorities estimate it will accelerate the process of delivery of construction projects by about two to three months.On August 1, the number of mandatory requirements to safety of buildings provided for in the Standards and the building regulations, will be reduced by 30% — as reported yesterday, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin during a working trip to Kazan, they will go into the category of recommendations. So, according to the government decree published yesterday, the updated list of standards and regulations, the use of which is necessary to ensure the safety of buildings and structures, which has 7 thousand claims instead of the current 10 thousand— the reduction provided by the elimination of redundant and duplicative rules.This decision, assured yesterday the Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin, who oversees the industry, will not have a negative impact on the safety of buildings. As for the remaining 70% of the requirements, they will be processed — according to the official, the government plans to further reduce the burden on business from regulatory authorities. As explained in the White house, the new document will not apply to projects started before 1 August, “this will save developers and designers from having to undergo repeated state expert examination”.Note, the government announced the suppression of administrative barriers in the construction industry in 2013 — then assess the business climate in the industry left much to be desired. So, seven years ago in the world Bank’s Doing Business in “Obtaining construction permits” Russia ranked 178 th place among 200 countries. Since then, she has risen to 26 place, although the problems in this area more than enough: the rating position is calculated mainly from the performance (contribution to assessment of 70%) and St. Petersburg (30%). As explained yesterday, Marat Khusnullin, when updating the list of mandatory requirements, the government relied on the experience of the capital for the construction in which the transition to the White house he answered himself.Head of the Department of urban planning policy of Moscow Sergey Levkin noted that the changes will allow “on a number of projects” to reduce construction time by two to three months. According to him, the current list of requirements was not updated for more than five years, does not meet the “priorities of development of the industry” and does not take into account the best foreignjury practices, such as Europe, China, USA and Japan. With the reduction of administrative barriers, Mr. Levkin communicates opportunities to implement new technologies in design and construction.”Most importantly, the process of cleaning all the junk began now to say that the administrative burden in the construction sector is high, it is impossible, although low is far from us”,— said the head of the Russian center of national construction policy Alexander Moore. According to him, in the future, the maximum reduction of administrative barriers can be achieved in the case where the number of mandatory requirements will be only those that affect the safety of the building. “The rest should be recommended to the business in terms of healthy competition to determine what bonuses as additional design decisions to lay”— the expert believes.Evgenia Kryuchkova, Kazan
