PRESS: Operators want large fines for SIM cards breaches revised

MOSCOW, Jul 19 (PRIME) -- Russia’s largest connection operators have asked to revise the amendments to the Administrative Code stipulating heavy fines for violation of the rules of online sale of gray SIM cards, business daily Kommersant reported Tuesday citing a letter to Pavel Krasheninnikov, head of a committee at the State Duma, the parliament’s lower house.

The operators believe that the amendments, which were sent in May 2017 and passed the first out of three mandatory readings in October 2021, set the fines that are larger than responsibility for similar administrative violations and raise the burden on business amid the crisis.

Under the law on connection, business is obliged to register data of users with the single system of identification and authentication of the portal of state services. Services can be provided only to the subscribers who pass the identification. The law allows people to buy a SIM card online with a basic electronic signature or the single biometric system.

The operators that breach the rules of online sale of SIM cards can be punished with 200,000–300,000 rubles. If an operator does not disconnect the corporate clients who fail to submit their information to the single system of identification and authentication or present faulty information the fine will amount to 300,000–500,000 rubles.

(56.5616 rubles – U.S. $1)

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