April 15, 2016
How “Kommersant”, the Ministry of Construction has completed a two-year preparation of the new federal law regulating the market of ritual services. In the final version, that the Ministry sent to the government, there was a requirement of licensing activities to provide funeral services – Article, allowing the establishment of private and religious cemeteries, but there were no rules on the re-use of land for cemeteries graves. According to “Kommersant”, the officials are ready to return to the matter when the bill comes before the second reading in the State Duma.
Ministry of Construction this week sent to the government for consideration of the revised draft law “On state regulation of the funeral business in Russia. ” “The final version included an article on the need for licensing to provide funeral services – Article, allowing the establishment of private and religious cemeteries but excluding the head of the re-use of land for reburial.” – He told “Kommersant” Deputy Minister Andrei Chibis construction. According to him, during the preparation of the document was worked out in addition to the licensing mechanism notification procedure for those wishing to work in the field of funeral services, but it was decided to stop at the first option.
“If the government will support the licensing, start preparing a government decree, which will be spelled out the requirements which must be followed to obtain a license, “- said Mr. lapwing.
Prepare a new bill from the Ministry of Construction took almost two years – work on the document began after, in May 2014 the Ministry of industry was the curator of ritual services.
The authorities expect to rid the industry of “gray agents” who buy information about deaths in hospitals and law enforcement agencies and sell funeral services of three times more expensive than it’s worth in government agencies, such as GBU “ritual” in Moscow.
Andrei Chibis said that the issue of the re-use of existing ground cemeteries are not removed from the agenda. According to him, it is planned to continue the discussion on re-use of the earth cemetery with experts and formulate the relevant chapter for the second reading of the bill.
International experience shows that the re-use of cemeteries for burial can not be avoided, indicating a member of the European Association for funeral services Andrew Marsyas.
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