The Federation Council approved a law on recycling fees. According to the document, from September 1, 2012, a fee will be paid for all wheeled vehicles, which guarantees the safe disposal of the vehicle after it loses its consumer properties.
The payment of the utilization fee will fully fall on the shoulders of manufacturers and importers, which for the end consumer will inevitably affect the cost of the car. In some cases, when the import of single vehicles is carried out, an individual will need to pay the fee.
According to the requirements of the law on scrappage fee, a vehicle passport will be issued exclusively for those vehicles in respect of which the fee has been paid. If the passport was issued prior to the entry into force of the new bill, the fee will not be paid for this vehicle.
The scrappage fee will not be paid for certain categories of vehicles. Among them are vehicles belonging to refugees and displaced persons when they are relocated to their homeland, as well as cars of diplomats, employees of consular offices and members of their families, cars imported from Kazakhstan and Belarus. Rare cars manufactured more than 30 years ago are not subject to the new bill, provided that they are not used for passenger and freight transportation on the basis of paid contracts, and also have an original engine, body and frame.
The final amount of the utilization fee has not yet been approved. However, the bill states that the final amount will be influenced by the year of manufacture of the car, its weight and other physical characteristics, on which the cost of vehicle disposal depends. Whether or not there will be incentives for domestically produced cars is not mentioned yet. According to preliminary base rates prepared by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Economic Development, it is expected that for cars this amount will be from 20 to 50 thousand rubles, for trucks - from 150 to 400 thousand rubles.
