The Fund of Housing and Public Utilities examines reports of regions of the Russian Federation for 2012

On March 31st, 2013 the Board of the State Corporation - the Fund Assisting the Restructuring of the Housing and Public Utilities has examined the reports of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation for 2012.

The submitted documents provide the information on the implementation of the regional target programs on major repairs in apartment houses and citizens’ movement from the failing housing stock. In addition, the reports provide the information on the expenditure of the Fund, the budgets of the entities of the Russian Federation and (or) local budgets for the implementation of the above-mentioned regional targeted programs for 2012, as well as on the implementation by the regions of the obligations established by Article 14 of the Federal Law No.185-FZ.

The Fund examined 81 annual reports of the entities of the Russian Federation. According to the examination of thee documents, 39 reports were approved. At the same time, the Fund decided to suspend the provision of financial support for 42 entities of the Russian Federation.

Most violations are related to the failure to implement at the due date and to the due extent the stated parameters of the regional target programs on citizens’ movement from the failing housing stock, as well as the non-compliance of the set requirements to ensure the share co-financing from the regional and (or) local budgets.

The provision of the financial support was suspended in whole for Dagestan Republic, Karachai-Cherkess Republic, the Republic of Karelia, the Republic of North Ossetia - Alania, Chuvash Republic, the Perm Region, the Arkhangelsk Region, the Vologda Region, the Ivanovo Region, the Moscow Region, the Murmansk Region, the Novgorod Region, the Pskov Region, the Saratov Region, the Tver Region, the Tula Region and the Ulyanovsk Region as well as for the city of St. Petersburg and the Nenets Autonomous District.

As for the programs on citizens’ movement  from the failing housing stock the financial support provided by the Fund was suspended for the Republic of Adygea, Kalmykia Republic, the Republic of Komi, the Republic of Tuva, the Republic of Udmurtia, the Zabaikalye Territory, the Krasnodar Territory, the Stavropol Territory, the Khabarovsk Territory, the Astrakhan, Voronezh, Kaluga , Kurgan, Kursk, Leningrad, Rostov, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen and Chelyabinsk Regions and the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District.

The financial support provided by the Fund was suspended only in terms of the programs on major repairs in apartment houses for the Kamchatka Krai, the Primorsky Krai and the Sakhalin Region.

Also, during the examination of the reports of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and the Republic of Ingushetia and the Samara Region for 2012 there were established the facts of the violation of the terms of the financial support provision under Article 14 of the Federal Law No. 185-FZ. The above violations do not constitute the grounds for the suspension of the financial support from the Fund but they must be eliminated within four months.

In accordance with Article 23 of the Federal Law-185 a region may eliminate the violations within four months from the date of the Fund Board’s decision to suspend the financial support. The failure to eliminate the violations within the due period of time results in a return of the financial support received from the Fund.