State information system of housing and communal services was created

According to the order of the President of the RF № Pr-3081 from 13.10.2011, the Federal Law from July 21, 2014 of №209-FZ «On the state information system of housing and communal services» (HGS GIS) was prepared and entered into force.

The purpose of HGS GIS was to replace scattered sites with information of management companies, various departments of HGS and other organizations with the unified resource, covering practically all information in the sphere of housing and communal services.

According to the initiators and developers of the system, it should give the citizens the opportunity to obtain complete, actual and reliable data about management companies, the works carried out and services provided, their cost and other necessary information about the housing and communal services, and will let government authorities make educated and informed management decisions.

The Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of the RF is the operator of HGS GIS, which has developed the system together with the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Utilities of the RF and the Federal State Unitary Enterprise «Russian Post».

The state information system of housing and communal services is integrated with information systems of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography, as well as with antimonopoly and tax services.

The system is divided into open and closed parts. The following information is available in the open part:

• legal acts and other normative documents;
• registers of open data: housing facilities, providers of information, inspections, information about heating season preparedness, licenses of constituent entities of the RF, consolidated register of licenses, register of disqualified persons and the list of government authorities;
• tariffs for housing and communal services and indexes of the change of payment for them;
• information on subsidies and benefits for consumers;
• standards of municipal services.

The closed part includes personal profiles of citizens, management companies and government authorities.

Citizens can use the system on a voluntary basis and for organizations of housing and communal services and government authorities the connection and work in HGS GIS is of obligatory character. Thus, according to final provisions of the law, since July 1, 2016 all providers and operators of housing and communal services are required to place information in the system. Since January 1, 2017 in case the data on the amount of payment for a residential unit and municipal services is not placed in the system, or such information does not correspond to the payment document in hard copy, this billing document will not be deemed submitted in accordance with the requirements of the legislation of the RF.

As of August 25, 2016, 58 158 enterprises from 85 constituent entities of the RF are registered in the system. By this, 100% of organizations of housing and communal services are registered in Orel region, the Chechen Republic, the Republic of Altai, the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District and the Nenets Autonomous District. More than 90% of organizations of housing and communal services are registered in the Republic of Khakassia, Moscow, the Chukotka Autonomous District and Krasnoyarsk territory. In 16 regions of the country less than half companies of housing and communal services are registered in the system, and Ivanovo region has the lowest rate of 27,73%.