Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance

(Rosselkhoznadzor)

Republican Fumigation Group

Federal State Enterprise

24.12.2018

On the prohibition to give and receive gifts


On the prohibition to give and receive gifts

The federal state-owned enterprise "Republican Fumigation Squad" in connection with the upcoming New Year and Christmas holidays reminds of the need to comply with the legislation on the prohibition to give and receive gifts.

The provisions of the anti-corruption legislation and the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, as well as the regulation and code of ethics and anti-corruption adopted by the Enterprise, contain a ban on giving gifts to persons replacing positions of the state civil service and employees of organizations created to perform the tasks assigned to federal state bodies, as well as on receiving gifts by them in connection with the performance of official (labor) duties (implementation of powers).

An exception is gifts that are received in connection with protocol events, with business trips, with other official events and are subject to delivery (Regulatory legal acts regulating these legal relations: Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 09.01.2014 No. 10 "On the procedure for informing certain categories of persons about receiving a gift in connection with protocol events, business trips and other official events, participation in which is associated with the performance of their official (official) duties, delivery and evaluation of the gift, sale (redemption) and crediting of the proceeds from its implementation", according to the Order of the Rosselkhoznadzor dated 01.04.2016 No. 196 "On the procedure for reporting by federal state civil servants of the central office of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance, federal state civil servants of territorial bodies of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance, as well as employees of organizations subordinate to the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance established to fulfill the tasks assigned to the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance phytosanitary supervision, on receiving a gift in connection with protocol events, business trips and other official events, participation in which is associated with the performance of their official (official) duties, the delivery and evaluation of the gift, the sale (redemption) and crediting of funds received from its implementation").

Receiving gifts by officials in other cases is a violation of the prohibition established by the legislation of the Russian Federation, the Civil Code of the Russian Federation and the Code of Ethics and Combating Corruption at the Enterprise creates conditions for the emergence of a conflict of interest, calls into question the objectivity of their decisions, and also entails liability provided for by law up to dismissal due to loss of trust, and in the case of, when the gift is regarded as a bribe - criminal liability.

Also, the receipt of gifts by officials in off-duty hours from their friends or other persons in respect of whom officials directly perform the functions of public administration is a violation of the established prohibition. Officials are advised to refrain from receiving gratuitous services, the results of work performed, as well as property, including for temporary use, since it is forbidden to receive gifts in the form of any material benefit to an official.