Ministry of Construction, Architecture, Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Tatarstan

Moscow hosted the All-Russian Seminar “Tariff regulation in the sphere of Housing and Public Utilities"

2 November 2012, Friday

The 5th seminar attracted a record number of participants: over 350 delegates from all the country took part in the discussion of the tariff policy. Among the guests of the event there were management companies, representatives of regional ministries and departments, regulators in the tariff policy, and resource supplying organizations.

The experts unanimously declared that the approaches to tariffs regulation in Russia used today did not let the housing and public utilities to develop.

“Tariffs should be economic, not political”, said Andrei Shirokov, a board member of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation and a chairman of the Committee on Entrepreneurship in the housing sector when opening the seminar on tariff regulation in the sphere of housing and public utilities. Yevgeny Yarkin, a president of the Interregional Association of Regional Energy Commission, said that “the method of tariffs indexation damaged the housing sector, and it would just ruin it”.

Meanwhile, real plans for territories development, long-term investment program, budget planning for specific subsidies and long-term tariffs are essential for a strong economic growth of the housing sector.

Representative of the Ministry of Economic Development Pavel Azgaldov reported on the introduction of the long-terms tariffs.

According to him, the housing and public utilities complex of Russia will be gradually changed over to the long-term tariff regulation by 2014.

Press Service of the Organizing Committee

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