21 January 2016

His opinion on the innovations in the general part of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation expressed the lawyer of the company «Khrenov and Partners» Alexander Kostin.

Draft general part of the Code of Administrative Offences is under consideration in the State Duma. According to the authors of the project, the proposed amendments will improve domestic legislation and enable more efficient to solve the problem of the prevention of crime.

Thus, it introduces a new form of punishment — the liquidation of the legal entity or termination of individual entrepreneur for gross misdemeanors. In particular, the liquidation will be appointed for the lack of a license or a compulsory membership in the SRO.

It provides for the separation of administrative violations in the rough, significant and less significant. Responsibility for them will depend on the category of crime. For example, fines for individual entrepreneurs for serious offenses will reach 400 thousand. Rub., And for legal entities 60 million rubles.

Monetary sanctions for serious and significant violations can be expressed in excess of the value of a single offense (in value or accrual terms), but not more than three times its size. The authors believe this approach to determine the amount of fines more reasonable.

Minimum of limitations for bringing to administrative responsibility increased to one year (instead of the current two months), for violations of fiscal and customs legislation — to two years, in cases of taxes and fees — up to three years, for antitrust cases — up to four years, and for counter-terrorism and corruption — to six years.

The new version of the Administrative Code to the principle of equality before the law and the principle of presumption of innocence added guilt, the principle of legality, the principle of fairness and proportionality, the principle of humanity, the principle of inevitability of administrative responsibility, the principle of non re-sentence for one offense and the principle of the protection.
One of the stories is a list of relevant circumstances precluding guilt of a person in committing an administrative offense. Such circumstances would include the adoption by all possible measures to prevent this breach. Written explanations of the legislation by the authorities of the person brought to administrative responsibility, can also serve as a kind of «indulgence» for the entrepreneur.

Comments of experts

Alexander Kostin (Lawyer, «Khrenov and Partners»)
How would you comment on the main innovations in the general part of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation? Will the law more humane?

Development of the General Part of the Code of Administrative Offences (CAO), containing the principles of humanism and non-repeated punishment for the same offense, and other similar principles, as well as delineation of administrative violations in the rough, significant and less significant evidence that the administrative law more It begins to link up with the criminal law. So, in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, also enshrines the principle of humanity (Art. 8 of the Criminal Code), according to which the punishment can not have intended to cause physical suffering, but in practice this principle is often in need of a more coherent implementation.

At the same time, the novel seems sufficiently important distinction between administrative offenses in the rough, significant and less significant, as on a number of compositions of the Administrative Code provides a very wide range of sanctions. Thus, in accordance with Art. 14.7 of the Administrative Code the penalty for consumer fraud can range from 100,000 to 500,000 rubles. In turn, the distinction between administrative offenses in the rough, significant and less significant, will significantly narrow the discretion of the officials concerned, thereby significantly suppressing the possible abuse in sentencing.
In general, the introduction of the amendments to the Administrative Code seems very timely and appropriate.