State Register of Collectors

The Federal Law №230-FZ «On protection of the rights and legal interests of individuals, engaging in activities for the recovery of overdue debt and on amendments to the Federal Law «On microfinance activities and microfinance organizations» entered into force on January 1, 2017. This was the subject of our publication «The Federal Law, regulating the activities of collectors, comes into force» from 21.12.2016.

According to the law, the control over the work of collectors is entrusted to the Federal Bailiff Service, which is instructed to maintenance the Register of legal entities, whose main activity is the return of overdue debt. It is prohibited to conduct such activities without registration in this register.

On February 4, 2020, the Order №550 of the Federal Bailiff Service of Russia «On approval of the administrative regulation for the provision by the Federal Bailiff Service of the public service for the inclusion of information about a legal entity into the state register of legal entities engaged in the return of overdue debt as the main type of activity» dated 30.12.2019 was registered under No.57422 at the Ministry of Justice of the RF, which determines the procedure for the provision of this public service by the Federal Bailiff Service of Russia and its territorial bodies.

Applicants for the provision of the public service can be only legal entities engaged in the relevant activities or their proxies.

The term for the provision of the public service, in the case of a decision to include information into the register, is 20 working days from the day the applicant submits the necessary documents to the territorial bodies of the Federal Bailiff Service of the RF. The decision to refuse to enter information into the register must be made within 10 working days from the date of the receipt of the documents.

A state fee of 100,000 rubles is charged for this service.

Currently, more than 340 organizations are registered in the Register. The subscribers of the Information and Analytical system Globas can get acquainted with them in the section of the system «Recommended lists».