Famous loud and usually unrealizable initiatives Deputy Vasily Vlasov made a new offer. He advised the CPS to pay the people who found in stores expired products. According to him, 50% of the fine imposed on the store for such a violation, the user will be enough as compensation of moral harm. The punishment for legal entities shall be, according to the author of the idea, from 20 thousand to 30 thousand rubles. Consequently, Supervisory buyer will be able to get 10-15 thousand rubles. Experts have criticized the initiative, seeing in it a possible source of corruption, as well as the risk of shortage of products.
“I Ask you to consider creating a legal mechanism whereby a citizen who will reveal the fact of the offense (sale of expired food products) and report this to the regulatory authorities, will be able to rely upon the imposition of the fine to half its amount,” — wrote the Deputy Vlasov in the appeal to the CPS.
Indeed, the problem with expired products exists in Russia. The retailers often order large amounts of perishable goods and do not have time to implement it. Products almost expired, and explicit delay is used for cooking food that you can buy in the stores themselves, or just throw it away.
How to deal with it? Not so, as suggested by the Deputy, according to experts. First and foremost, officials should study the mechanism that allows the manufacturers to hand out free food with a “borderline” shelf life instead of compulsory recycling, according to the expert of the Academy of management Finance and investment Gennady Nikolaev.
“In European countries there is already a large number of social projects, allowing the stores to give the product, the shelf life of which are about to expire, to charity,’ he says. — It is much more viable to go this route and to encourage the stores to convey food to the needy in exchange for tax benefits, not to propose new fines”.
Note that now monitor the delay obliged the sellers, administrators, cashiers and Directors of shops. Last bear for it personal responsibility. If expired products are not withdrawn from sale on time, the penalty imposed on shop, is usually deducted from employees ‘ salaries.
“If proposed by a Deputy, a mechanism is introduced, there may be citizens who will go to the store for groceries, and in the hope to earn in this simple way, — considers the first Vice-President of “OPORA Russia” Paul Segal. — Suffer the store itself, which will be forced to pay the fine, and his employees who will lose some ��of Eclat”.
the Expert does not exclude that the citizens will have an unhealthy interest in visiting the store for shopping, and for the “thud” of violations, which, by the way. Can not be confirmed.
“Such measures may lead to the fact that stores will order products for fear of delay — continues Segal. — The result will be shortages of supply of goods will increase costs (to ship to store products more often and smaller batches). And this growth costs the shops start pricing out — they’ll grow.”
this Gennady Nikolayev adds, will increase the risk that people will offer the Manager of the stores to “solve the issue” without the involvement of law enforcement for less than it should be according to the law, the amount. “In the current economic environment there would be enough people willing to commit such raids,” believes the analyst.
But a leading analyst of the Forex Optimum kapustyasky Ivan sees a problem in other: the state is not going to share the fines with the public. “The proposal looks like a populist and is unlikely to be accepted, he said. — If the initiative will support, will immediately raise the question of the promotion for the “signaling” other offenses: for a violation of environmental standards, traffic regulations, etc”. The pace whistleblowing can become a well paid profession.
Top 5 most dramatic proposals of the Deputy Vasily Vlasov (LDPR), which was not supported:
-to Pay the Russians for refusal of a place in a kindergarten: one monthly regional minimum wage for the time during which the child would be in kindergarten.
-Lower vehicle tax. In connection with the coronavirus pandemic, the majority of Russians due to the isolation’ve been home for over a month and did not use the machines.
to Compensate for being the isolation the residents of Moscow a fraction of the cost (20%) of the annual Parking pass, since home mode the majority of Muscovites can not use them.
-to Temporarily cancel the fee for “communal”: the citizens due to the mode of isolation, reduced wages or even left without a job and live on something necessary.
-to Save the Russians from payments for utility services, if their quality is not satisfied.
