Rosprirodnadzor will be detected by the non -payers of the ecosborne
The State Duma in the spring session may consider amendments to the law “On Production and Consumption Waste”, designed to increase the effectiveness of the administration of environmental collection. This non -tax payment is collected from manufacturers and importers of goods and packaging that do not utilize them on their own. The changes introduce the duty of the service to control the independent calculations of the ECCOSKORY by all subjects of expanded liability of manufacturers (ROP), as well as identify non -payers using the analysis of data of state information systems. As a result of the growth of the load on both the business and on the regulatory authority, the annual fees of the environmental payment can increase from 3.5 billion to 75 billion rubles.
The government intends to include measures to improve the administration of the ECCOSKORY within the framework of the ROP in the bill No. 751791–8 (“On Amending Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation”) – it is preparing for the second reading of the State Duma on Control. The amendments that are planned to be introduced to No. 89-ФЗ “On Waste of Production and Consumption” were discussed at a meeting of the State Duma Committee on Ecology. The new article “Basic principles of economic regulation in the field of waste management”, which they want to include in the main industry law, was developed by State Duma deputies as an amendment to the No. 497-FZ adopted in December 2024 (also amended the laws on waste and the protection of the environment)-but it did not enter it. According to the deputy head of the committee, Alexander Kogan, « the amendments were temporarily excluded, but the agreement on their consideration in the spring session is maintained. »
In particular, Rosprirodnadzor proposes to impose the obligation to control the correctness of the calculation of the ecosborus by the subjects of the ROP, and the instructions will be replaced by the requirements (they do not need to conduct an audit, and if the failure can be fulfilled, such a measure has already been implemented to collect a negative impact on the environment). The amendments also oblige Rosprirodnadzor to identify the “slopes” (companies that did not provide reports and did not pay ecosbor) – both during the federal eco -supervision and by analyzing the information of the GIS of waste accounting from the use of goods and “adjacent” GIS.
Recall that manufacturers and importers of goods and packaging are required to dispose of waste from them (including the involvement of utilizers) or pay an ecosborne. In 2025, revenues to the budget from the “double” ecosbor for 2023–2024 amounted to 19.2 billion rubles. with a forecast of 7 billion rubles. (see “Kommersant” from May 15). The problem of the administration of eco-payments (see Kommersant on April 17) existed from the very beginning of the introduction of the ROP due to the lack of fiscal experience and apparatus in the administrative service. Given the “tax” nature of the Eckoskor, business has repeatedly proposed to immerse it in the Tax Code and transfer the Federal Tax Service – however, the Ministry of Finance opposed it, demanding to first put the regulatory framework.
The alternative to paying the ecosborne is the disposal of waste in the volume of the normative share of production or import – independently or with the involvement of specialized companies. However, the formation of a register of utilizers necessary to account for waste processing by the companies themselves is extremely slow: out of 488 stated players, only 123 (25.2%) are included in it. Importers, which account for 80% of the packaging,, in turn, remain outside of effective control: no GIS provides reliable accounting of their products.
The adoption of amendments, on the one hand, will multiply the volume of work of Rosprirodnadzor, and on the other, will increase the pressure on the business – tightening the legislation will affect the wide range of companies and can give a twenty -fold increase in payments. According to the expert administration of the Presidential Administration, the annual predictable volume of revenues from the ecosborus should amount to 75 billion rubles. – although the budget draft for 2025–2027 laid the revenues of only 3.5 billion per year (such a proportion, we note, remains for many years – most payers simply ignore this obligation or reckoned with purchased certificates of disposal, the same control system for monitoring the execution of responsibility In the industry, due to conceptual disagreements of the regulators, it was never created).
In the opinion of Alexander Kogan, it will not be required to add additional coordination of the project with the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economics: it is “only about more effective control of the fees”, the requirements for companies and the rules of the ECCOMBOR are clearly spelled out and they agreed upon the introduction of the ROP of the department. According to Kommersant in the Ministry of Natural Resources, « all legislative initiatives are widely discussed with business and various public organizations. » At the same time, the final version of the amendments to the bill is still being developed about their content to “speak prematurely”.
If the government supports the amendments of the deputies in terms of ROP, they will be taken into account when finalizing the current bill. However, Mr. Kogan noted, even if they are not accepted again, the Ecology Committee intends to insist on innovations and will include them in amendments to the law “On Environmental Protection”: they are also preparing for the second reading.
