Putin signed the law on the right of Cabinet to introduce a state of emergency

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law giving the government of the Russian Federation with additional powers in connection with the coronavirus pandemic, including the introduction of regimes of emergency and high alert throughout the country or on the part of the pandemic coronavirus from March 19 throughout Russia on high alert - the intermediate stage between everyday activities and the regime of emergency President Vladimir Putin signed a law giving the government of the Russian Federation with additional powers in connection with the coronavirus pandemic, including the introduction of regimes of emergency and high alert throughout the country or on the part of
Akishin Vyacheslav / Moscow-Live.ru the pandemic coronavirus from March 19 throughout Russia on high alert – the intermediate stage between everyday activities and emergency mode
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President Vladimir Putin signed a law giving the government of the Russian Federation with additional powers in connection with the coronavirus pandemic, including the establishment of emergency regimes and increased details orti throughout the country or a part of it. The document is published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

According to the explanatory note, the law prepared to regulate the relations arising in connection with the need for emergency response to challenges related to the spread of a new coronavirus infection. It gives the government the right in case of threat of occurrence or in case of individual emergencies to exercise powers of the coordinating body of the unified state system of prevention and liquidation of emergency situations. In addition, it is proposed to Supplement the list of reasons of emergency the spread of the disease, representing a danger to others, reports TASS.

prior To the enactment of a state of emergency could only be declared by the governmental Commission on prevention and liquidation of emergency situations under the guidance of the head of the MES, said “jellyfish”.

the pandemic coronavirus from March 19 throughout Russia on high alert – the intermediate stage between everyday activities and the regime of emergency.

the government, according to Putin’s decree, shall be empowered to restrict for a period of up to 90 days trade in certain medical devices, and in the case of threat of occurrence or in case of emergency situation – to impose a moratorium on the initiation of bankruptcy cases. Provides support for tour operators: we are talking about changing the terms of contributions to the funds of personal responsibility on the mechanism to use such funds for refunds to tourists by the government of the Russian Federation for each “closed” because of the coronavirus country.

the Government is empowered to establish in 2020 cases, the possibility of procurement from a single supplier. Introduces the possibility of changing the date of execution of the contract in the case that the pandemic did not arise dependings from the parties to the contract the circumstances that permitted the write-off amount of penalties in the result of associated with the pandemic of non-performance or improper performance of the 2020 commitments under the signed contract.