Interior Ministry has proposed to tighten control over the inspection of cars – RBC

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Russian Interior Ministry has proposed to strengthen state influence on procedure for technical inspection of vehicles. Office explains the increased number of accidents involving defective cars

Russian Interior Ministry proposes to strengthen control over the procedure of technical inspection of vehicles. A draft law published on Friday on federal Internet portal of regulatory legal acts.

Now the inspection of vehicles is carried out organizations accredited by the Russian Union of Insurers (RSA), which monitors their activities and checks for compliance with accreditation requirements. Control of SAR operations, in turn, by the Bank of Russia, the document says.

As noted by the authors of the initiative, “the production aspects of the maintenance operators are beyond the control that enhances the practice of providing consumers with poor service, the creation of unfair industry competition, the spread of mass falsification of information to conduct technical inspections and discredit the very institution of technical inspection. »

Increased state influence on basic processes associated with vehicle inspection and maintenance of vehicles, according to the Interior Ministry believes should be a reaction to” negative development of the situation.

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The bill provides, inter alia, the transfer of the right of accreditation of operators inspection of the PCA to the Federal service for accreditation (Ro sakkreditatsiya ), which is endowed with” sufficient authority “accreditation legal entities and individual entrepreneurs can conduct scheduled and unscheduled inspections, change the scope of accreditation, confirming competence accredited people or deny them accreditation.

in addition, the Interior Ministry offered to establish “the obligation of visiting the accreditation commission with obligatory participation of the Russian Interior Ministry in them»

. The draft law was developed in connection with the increase in the number of accidents involving technically faulty transport, explained the Ministry of Interior. “The situation is deteriorating with an emergency involving a technically defective vehicles, especially passenger cars and motorcycles. The number of dead and injured in such accidents over the past four years has increased significantly: the dead – 256 people (91%), injured – by 2282 people (156%) [a year], “- stated in the explanatory note to the the draft law.

The main types of fault calls MIA problems braking system, exterior lighting fixtures, power steering, chassis and tires.