Prosecutor’s Office audit plan for 2021

LEGAL DIGEST, NEWS \ 26.01.2021

The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation has formed a summary plan of inspections of legal entities for 2021. Check if your company is on the list.

In a special section on the website of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, you can check whether your company is included in the audit plan for 2021. In order to find out whether a company face the inspection, it should specify its data (taxpayer ID number (Russian acronym – INN), principal state registration number (Russian acronym – OGRN) or name) in the search box of the unified register. If the organization is included in the inspection plan, the form displays the following information:

• What supervisory body will carry out an inspection of the company.
• Purpose and form of the inspection.
• Duration of the inspection.
• Term for conducting the inspection.

If the search through the service did not give results, then your company is not in the plan of inspections. Please note that the plan does not contain information about certain types of inspections (for example, tax, currency, customs ones).

For small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) included in the Unified register of SMEs, the prohibition from conducting scheduled and unscheduled checks is extended until December 31, 2021. The exception are checks the grounds for which are:

• Causing harm or risk of harm to the life and health of citizens.
• Occurrence of natural and man-made emergency situations/
• Bringing the company to administrative liability for a gross violation less than 3 years ago and applying penalties in the form of disqualification or suspension of activity.

In the matters of preparation for scheduled inspections of controlling bodies, please contact Acsour specialists.