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In Bryansk a regular meeting of the Commission for Cooperation of the Government of the Bryansk region, municipalities and power supply companies was held regarding issues to pay for energy resources. IDGC of Centre - Bryanskenergo division was represented by Deputy Director of the branch for sale and development of services Evgeny Drokonov.
The meeting participants discussed the issues of payment of debt for energy resources of budget organizations in the region to service providers, which include Bryanskenergo. Following the discussion, the management of debtor companies was instructed to take all necessary measures for the collection of receivables, including - to provide their schedule of restructuring.
Collecting debts is an important part of Bryanskenergo’s activities, for this task the branch uses all mechanisms envisaged by the legislation. A lot is done in the framework of claim-related work. For the first quarter of 2016 in the courts of various levels 113 petitions of Bryanskenergo were considered, including 74 applications for the recovery of 27.924 million rubles of debt for electricity sold to consumers in the period of the performance of functions of supplier of last resort, and 39 applications - for the recovery of 29.559 million rubles of debt arisen from other types of business of the enterprise. Under judicial decisions 150.63 million rubles were recovered.
Funds, received for services rendered for electricity transmission, will be used by the company for repair and modernization of power grids. Ongoing work is aimed at improving the reliability of equipment of electric grid facilities and uninterrupted power supply to residents of the Bryansk region.
For reference
Please, be reminded that in November 2015 Federal Law № 307-FZ "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation in connection with the strengthening of the payment discipline of consumers of energy resources" set a fixed size of fines for violation of customer obligations on timely payment for energy resources and services related to delivery of such resources in the amount of 1/130 of the refinancing rate of the Central Bank of the outstanding amount for each day of delay. The law also amended the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation, which came into force from 1 January 2016. The Administrative Code was supplemented with Article 14.61, which establishes liability for violation by certain categories of consumers of the provision of security for payment of electric energy (power), combined with non-performance (improper performance) of the established order of execution of obligations on payment for energy resources. For officers the penalty ranges from 40 to 100 thousand rubles or disqualification for a period of two to three years; for legal entities - a fine from 100 to 300 thousand rubles.
And the amount of the fine rose in cases of unauthorized connection to the power grid: for individuals it will grow from 3-4 to 10-15 thousand rubles, for officials - from 6-8 to 30-80 thousand rubles, for legal entities - from 60-80 to 100-200 thousand rubles. For officials it also provides for disqualification for a period of two to three years.
In addition, the law establishes the criteria according to which debtors have an obligation to provide security for obligations (including in the form of a bank guarantee) for payment for services to transmit energy resources in the event of non-performance or improper performance of obligations under their payment.