A new attempt to solve the issue of the transfer of resource-supplying organizations (RSO) of utilities built by developers, has taken the Ministry of construction, the Agency proposes to sell them at a price not exceeding the amount of the actual costs. The RSO will have the opportunity to opt out — then the objects will be offered for auction, failing which such a network needs to buy out already of the municipality. In the construction industry the redemption of networks of resource-supplying organisations consider to be logical, however, the representatives of the housing sector fear that this could lead to a “cross-subsidy”.The Ministry of construction has drafted a bill on the transfer of resource-supplying organizations of the utilities created by developers. The Agency “Kommersant” explained that we are talking about new networks that are built during the construction of apartment buildings is a project aimed at preventing the increasing number of ownerless objects. We will remind, more than two years ago to solve this problem tried the Agency for strategic initiatives, inviting developers to sell their networks RSO, while the latter had a right to withdraw (see “Kommersant” on November 30, 2017). This procedure was criticized as RSO, and the expert community — it was, in particular, about the risks of overpricing on the part of developers.The project of the Ministry of construction developers will be able to transfer their network to the RSO property at a price the limited amount of actual expenses on their creation, the cadastral registration and title registration. While RSO is invited to give the opportunity to refuse redemption — then, at the request of the municipality that the facility should be put up for auction. If nobody expresses the desire to acquire network, the municipality will buy them myself. In cases of transfer of networks to the municipalities the amount of the fee will also be bounded above by the size of the cost of their creation — in this case the developer will be able to sell items cheaper or to transfer them to local authorities free of charge.According to a member of RUIE Commission on utilities Parviz Abdushukurov, however, “the proposed order does not solve any actual problem with the connection to the water supplies of resources, but contrary to the law, since it causes cross-subsidization”. Already connected consumers who paid for their own connection, he explains, will pay the cost of connection of the developer.In the opinion of the head of the Commission for housing and communal services of the Public Council under the Ministry of Alexey Makrushin, you can understand and developers — RSO under restriction of growth of tariffs, trying costs to include in the connection fee. On the other hand, according to him, the question arises: why is the municipality or RDF in General should pay for these with��ti. “Ideally, networks should build themselves RSO, although they, too, need to control, in terms of prices for connection, or developers can do it yourself, but under the supervision of the RSO, and after receiving a free pass to the facilities on their balance,” said Mr. Makrushin.The public Ombudsman of the construction industry, the head of the construction Committee “Support of Russia” Dmitry Kurowski wonders: “How is it RSO get a new network, and the developers bear all costs and even free transfer objects?” According to him, the redemption of the objects “resourceName” logical — RSO do not build them, but get more consumers. The idea of the redemption of networks of the municipalities he has a doubt: “then they have the budget to get at least some money, but given the limited growth in tariffs that could take years.”Eugene Kryuchkov
