Customs office will be vested with a right to initiate administrative cases

At the present time customs authorities, detected violations by motor vehicle search, crossing the border of Russia, have no right to initiate by themselves an administrative case and give a ticket. A bill, introduced to the State Duma by the Government of the RF, should straight such things out.

Border security is the necessary condition of domestic tranquility. Customs office suppresses illegal entry of migrants, arms and narcotics smuggling. If the customs office finds violations by transport control, then materials for an administrative case are submitted to the bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) or Federal Service for Supervision of Transport (Rostransnadzor). It will take a certain amount of time before appropriate structures will try a case, also the search of violators is connected with extra expenditures, and considering that the border is crossed by foreign carriers – it seems to be a yet harder task to impose responsibility on them. As the result the budget receives less funds in the form of penalties, and violators get the illusion about the impunity of law infringement, because by such system the base of an punishment - its unavoidability – breaks down.

Furthermore, in case there are nonconformities of weight and overall parameters to statutory standards, found out by a vehicle, leaving Russia, customs officer gives notice of detected violations to a carrier and the necessity of arriving at the nearest control point of Rostransnadzor. In a fact it turns out that parties in good faith have to spend time for the completion of a violation in place, which could be long-distance from the point of apprehension, and others just circumvent received regulations.

Now therefore, the introduced initiative should fill this lacuna in the legislation.