Revolving fines may be imposed on tour operators.
For tour operators, it is proposed to introduce fines in the Administrative Code for not entering information about vouchers sold to Russians into a Single electronic information System, which operated in test mode from September 1, 2022 to March 1, 2023, and subsequently the rules for transmitting information were introduced in stages.
As Izvestia found out, Oleg Pavlov, head of the Public Consumer Initiative and head of the Public Council at Rospotrebnadzor, addressed such a proposal to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. He noted that if companies commit a violation for the first time, then the amount of financial punishment should be equivalent to the cost of the trip. For the second time, it is proposed to make the fine negotiable — in the amount of 1-3% of the proceeds from the sale of tourist products in the previous year. If these measures are not effective, and the company commits such a violation three times, then, according to Pavlov, it should be excluded from the register of tour operators or travel agents (with a ban on carrying out this activity).
In the document reviewed by the editorial board, the social activist informs that the ban on the sale of travel products without transmitting information to the Unified Information System of Electronic Vouchers (UIS EP) has been in effect in the field of outbound tourism since November 15, 2023, in the field of inbound and domestic tourism — since September 1, 2024. The purpose of its creation was to provide consumers and regulatory authorities (the Ministry of Economic Development, Rospotrebnadzor and others) with reliable information about tour operators, travel agents and travel routes. Today, this makes it possible for Russians to independently verify information about a travel permit, including its legality.
However, as Pavlov notes in his appeal, this is not always possible, since by the beginning of the ban on the sale of tours abroad without an electronic voucher, only 40% of companies had registered with the EIS EP.
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