Development of Russia did not support the draft resolution of the Russian Government on the establishment of environmental data collection rates

Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation did not support the draft resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation, which requires manufacturers and importers to pay for the so-called environmental fee - fee for recycling their products in accordance with the established rates.
Russian Ministry of Economic Development issued a negative opinion on the regulatory impact assessment on a draft resolution of the Russian government, which is in late September 2015 the ODS sent the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources.
"Development of Russia opposed the entry into force of a normative legal act in connection with the risk of unjustified increase in the burden on business, insufficient study of recycling and other negative factors that would entail the adoption of the document, - the press-service agency. - In the absence of a regulatory framework, without objective grounds for establishing the rates for each group of differentiated products, uncertainty in the use of existing infrastructures already constructed waste, the fee will be only an additional income without reference to the effectiveness of spending on maintenance of ecological safety ".
The authors of the draft resolution, for example, offered to producers for each ton of hair dryers or electric kettles ("Household electrical appliances") to pay a fee of 26,469 rubles.
Total developers identified 36 product groups, united by a common deposit rate. Questions on the methodology of determining the system of waste management, and, ultimately, quality, environmental safety remain open. According to preliminary calculations, if the decision will come into force in the current edition, in 2016 the business will have to pay to the federal budget 30 305 Bln. RUB.
According to the director of the Department of Regulatory Impact Assessment Development of Russia Vadim Zhivulina, before preparation of the conclusions were held open meetings with the business community.
"Our experts ask fair questions: on what basis are calculated these rates, why are different in composition (and thus processing) products are evaluated the same way, how to deal with packaging and as a result will look like the process of recovery, the cost of which has already been prepared to put on the shoulders of the business? It is important to understand that any increase in costs affecting the final cost of the product, - he said. - It is important both for consumers and for manufacturers competing in the market. "
According to him, the cost of recycling incorporated a number of factors, including the cost of building infrastructure for waste management, but they are 5 times higher than operating costs, and in some groups now are underutilized processing capacity, building new is required.
In addition, the ministry added, in a meeting with Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexei Ulyukayev on the establishment of a moratorium on the payment of non-tax payments, agreements were reached on the establishment of standard utilization "0" to January 1, 2019 for all commodity groups, except for batteries, tires, paper and mercury lamps.