Fines have been introduced in Russia for illegal advertising of “laughing gas”
The Federation Council approved amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses (CAO) of the Russian Federation, which introduce fines for illegal advertising of nitrous oxide (“laughing gas”).
The corresponding decision was made during a plenary meeting of the Federation Council, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The document was presented by Senator Oleg Tsepkin. According to him, for propaganda or illegal advertising of “laughing” gas, a fine of 1 to 2 thousand rubles has been established for citizens, for officials - from 10 to 20 thousand rubles, for individual entrepreneurs - from 10 to 20 thousand rubles, and for legal entities – from 50 to 150 thousand rubles.
In addition, the activities of individual entrepreneurs and legal entities may be administratively suspended for up to 30 days.
“Our committee examined this federal law in detail, including the sufficiency of measures on the amount of the administrative fine, and proposes to write down a protocol instruction for our committee to monitor the implementation of this bill during 2021, and a further report at the plenary meeting,” added Tsepkin.
In turn, Senator Lyudmila Narusova said that fines should be much higher.
“Thank you for adding the need for monitoring. But this is not only about monitoring, but about the fact that the very measures proposed in this project are inadequate to the evil that nitrous oxide brings to health and the environment.
Judge for yourself - entrance to a nightclub costs at least five thousand. This is basically how “laughing gas” is offered. And the fine is one or two thousand. Inadequate,” Narusova said.
“I believe that it is within the framework of this monitoring that proposals to increase responsibility will be prepared,” Tsepkin suggested.
In turn, the speaker of the upper house Valentina Matvienko noted the consistent work of the Russian government to combat intoxicating drugs.
“The Federal Assembly consistently, law by law, puts barriers to the spread of this monstrous evil that is taking place,” the speaker said.
After which, during the voting, the corresponding amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses (CAO) of the Russian Federation were supported by 114 senators; there were no votes against or abstentions. The decision was taken.
Let us remind you that the corresponding law was adopted by the State Duma in the third reading on January 26.
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