the state Duma has allowed the government to introduce a regime of emergency in Russia
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the state Duma adopted a law that gives the Cabinet the right to impose modes of alert or emergency on the entire territory of the Russian Federation. As notes “Interfax”, the document also provides the government the right to establish binding rules of conduct in case of emergencies.
In the explanatory note to the law States that he, in particular, developed in connection with necessity of emergency response challenges related to the spread of coronavirus.
the government Also gets the opportunity to coordinate a unified state system of prevention and liquidation of emergencies, list causes of this situation is complemented by the “spread of the disease, representing a danger to others”. The law allows in case of emergency or “the threat of diseases, dangerous to others” to restrict wholesale and retail trade of medicines compiled the same list for a period of not more than 90 days.
the Cabinet will also have the right to regulate the treatment of critical drugs and to establish a special order of registration and circulation of medicines and medical products that are intended for use in military operations, emergency situations and prevention of emergency situations, prophylaxis and treatment of diseases that pose a danger to others.
the Government was right in 2020 to carry out public procurement from a single supplier, and to amend the terms of the contract and its price, if its execution has become impossible due to the coronavirus. In addition, the government has the right “in exceptional cases” to impose a moratorium on the initiation of bankruptcy cases. These changes are proposed to the current law on insolvency.
Informed the legal Department of the state Duma removed from the database of the state Duma review of the bill that expands the powers of the government in case of an emergency. The government prepared a document was submitted to the lower house on March 26. It gives the Cabinet the right to enter the modes of alert and emergency in case of epidemic. Also, the bill States that the government gets the right to coordinate a unified state system of prevention and liquidation of emergency situations.
the First opinion of the legal Department of the state Duma were published in the database on March 27, how to write “Open media”, it said that the Cabinet of Ministers may obtain “unreasonable powers” in the sphere of state control and supervision, which will continue after the pandemic. Soon, however, the state Duma issued a new opinion, according to which the comments of a conceptual nature in the bill do not exist.
Soon after, the Chairman of the Duma Committee for security and combating corruption United Russia Vasily Piskarev said that he would propose to the lower house of Parliament to consider and adopt the draft law in three readings in the plenary on 31 March. “Completing a project, changing the concept, something added, something has lowered, everything can change. Especially during force majeure”, – said the “Open media” employee of the legal Department of the state Duma. In the apparatus of the lower house was unable to immediately comment on the change of opinion.-
