The government proposed to finalize the draft on the selection of autonomies for a fee

The government has prepared a draft review of the new version of the bill, allowing car owners for a fee to choose “beautiful” rooms through the portal of public services. The document was published in the System of ensuring legislative activity on November 11.

“The government of the Russian Federation conceptually supports the bill, subject to its revision for the second reading, taking into account these comments,” the document says.

The draft law was introduced by deputies from the New People faction in October last year after President Vladimir Putin supported the idea. In April this year, the document was sent for revision at the request of the Duma Committee on transport. First Deputy Chairman of the Committee Pavel Fedyaev then explained that it is important to understand which rooms will be considered beautiful, how much they will cost, where the money will go and who will administer.

The Cabinet of Ministers then supported the bill, subject to its revision.

In the current draft of the recall, the government did not agree with the division of state registration numbers (GRN) into two types - unique and individual - and the exclusion from the new version of the wording "reserveable state registration numbers of vehicles determined by the registering authority", which, according to the Cabinet, "creates legal uncertainty, entails further non-transparency of law enforcement and is not consistent with the goals and objectives of the introduction of the reservation mechanism.".

“Exclusion of the powers of the registering authority to determine the state registration numbers of vehicles available for reservation carries risks in the form of possible compromise of information relating to state protection objects and protected persons, as well as the activities of individual state bodies in connection with the operation of vehicles with state registration numbers installed on them with separate alphanumeric combinations,” they believe.

The document proposes to fix the compilation of the list for reservation of numbers for the registering body - the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and for the government - the establishment of fees for the selection of numbers and the procedure for its collection through the portal of public services.

The authors of the bill explained that now car owners do not have the opportunity to choose numbers - they are assigned randomly. Because of this gap, a shadow market for special license plate combinations has emerged. “In the absence of a direct legal mechanism, numerous intermediaries openly offer interested persons the services of selecting and selling “beautiful” rooms for remuneration. As a result, significant amounts are paid to private intermediaries, car owners receive a service outside the legal field, and the state does not receive any revenues from these transactions to the budget, the authors noted.

They propose, as follows from the explanatory note, to allow citizens to reserve unique and individual rooms for a fee. The first included those in which the numbers in the number and the code of the region coincide, numbers with all the same numbers or the same letters, as well as numbers that are multiples of ten or one hundred. The combinations chosen by the owners themselves will be considered individual and cost more than unique ones.