The government will adjust the calculation of fines for industrialists who violate quotas for pollutant emissions, Kommersant reports. According to the amendments approved by the government commission on legislative activities, the amounts will be calculated not from the total revenue of the entire company, but separately for each offending facility.
Fines will also be differentiated depending on the industry. For natural monopolies (oil and gas transportation by pipelines, railway transportation, electricity and heat transmission, water supply), the penalty may be ten times lower — 0.01–0.02% of revenue. In addition, it is proposed to introduce a cap: the total fine for violations at several facilities cannot exceed 5% of revenue, and for monopolies — 0.5% (or 1 billion rubles).
The initial version of the bill, approved by the State Duma in the first reading back in 2024, drew objections from the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP). At that time, fines were proposed to be calculated from the annual revenue of the entire company. According to those norms, exceeding the quota by up to 10% entailed 0.1–0.2% of revenue, up to 25% — 0.2–0.5%, up to 50% — 0.5–1%, up to 75% — 2–3%, and over 75% — 4–5% (but not less than 5 million rubles).
However, even the revised amendments do not satisfy the association of entrepreneurs. The RSPP stated that the proposed norms violate the basic principles of administrative punishment — equality of all before the law (the amount of the fine depends on the industry) and proportionality of punishment (even a slight deviation from quotas threatens millions in fines).
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