Amendments to the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses
On April 1, 2020, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law On Introducing Amendments to the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses.
The federal law establishes liability for violation of the law in the field of ensuring the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population during the emergency mode or when there is a threat of the spread of a disease that poses a danger to others, or during the implementation of restrictive measures (quarantine) in the relevant territory, as well as increased administrative responsibility for actions (inaction) resulting in harm to human health or death ka, if these actions (inaction) do not contain a criminal offense.
The amendments also provide for administrative responsibility for the dissemination in the media or information and telecommunication networks under the guise of reliable messages of knowingly inaccurate information about circumstances that pose a threat to the life and safety of citizens, and (or) the measures taken to ensure the safety of the population and territories.
In addition, responsibility for the sale or dispensing of medicines in violation of the requirements of the legislation on the circulation of medicines in terms of establishing limits on the size of wholesale mark-ups or retail mark-ups on the actual selling prices of manufacturers for these medicines is being tightened.