As found by the Higher school of Economics (HSE), the regulatory burden on the fishing industry costs to market participants of nearly 60 billion rubles Is almost 3.5 times more than the first estimates of experts, submitted in 2018. In the new amount includes the costs of complete bureaucratic requirements and losses, such as lost catch. In a pandemic COVID-19 and falling demand, the question of reviewing the load has become even more relevant, indicate the fishermen.A new study “Analysis of the regulatory burden on the fishing industry” HSE held by order of the Russian Association of fishermen (VARPE). The results of the work of the “y” provided VARPE. This is the second such study. The first analysis of the regulatory impacts on the fishing industry the HSE has done in 2018, 550 identifying the mandatory requirements contained in 55 normative legal acts. Then the costs of excessive regulation was estimated at 17 billion rubles. per year.The new study was performed by the method of standard costs, which allows to determine costs of business from fulfillment of bureaucratic requirements. In addition, the estimated direct costs — costs on the purchase of materials and equipment testing and maintenance, laboratory tests, etc. have Also simulated the loss of business caused by regulatory demands— for example, loss of catch.. In terms of 15 years — the period of validity of contracts on consolidation share of catch quotas of aquatic bioresources is 877,35 billion rubles, the President of VARPE Herman Zverev. Considering that in 2019 the turnover of the fishing industry reached 369 billion rubles, the regulatory burden on business is about 16% of overall industry revenues, he estimated.Most of the expenses (15.1 billion rubles a year) the fishermen are from the requirements of border and customs control, including the necessity of passing control points. Requirements for veterinary and sanitary control cost of RUB 13.6 bn, fire safety 8.5 billion. per year, the study.From the data VARPE it follows that now established a 24 point, a transition in which the court performed 5.7 thousand times. The Deputy Director UK “Norebo” Sergey Sennikov agree that compulsory passage control points, at least for vessels of Russian companies no longer needed: “we Have all the courts are technical controls, an electronic fishing log and the border guard may track the movement of vessels in near real time, delayed for an hour.”According to the top Manager, the abolition of this requirement, the monitoring of the industry will not weaken, but market participants will be able to reduce costs on fuel, not to spend hours on the ship transitions, etc. In the Ministry of agriculture is ready to consider the relative��sasasa to the competence of the FSB, in conjunction with the service, as well as with associations and other interested bodies and organizations.According to Mr Zverev, taking into account the negative impact of the pandemic COVID-19 to the fishery industry the need for review of regulatory burden on business is increasing. According to him, the devaluation of the ruble led to increased costs of fishermen, and the drop in consumer demand in the short term will lead to lower prices for fish products and the “inhibition” of the financial performance of the industry. Sergey Sennikov added that because of falling oil prices, bunker fuel is a significant part of the cost of fishermen for the price of almost all over the world, but not in Russia, where prices remained at the same level. It also does not exclude the decline in demand for fish products in the domestic market and a drop in prices or freeze them for a while. But to predict long-term effects of pandemic COVID-19 in the part of export supply difficult, indicates Mr. Sennikov. According to the forecasts of German Zverev, in 2020, industry revenue will be at the level of 370 billion rubles. Anatoly Kostyriv
