Masks - and no show

The country switches to the mandatory wearing regime of masks in public places. Does this fate are waiting for Moscow?

Residents of Moscow may be obliged to wear masks when visiting public places. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to sources close to the capital's government. The day before, the topic of introduction of a mask regime in the regions was discussed at a meeting of Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin with governors. To date, residents of the Moscow Region, Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Tula, Tyumen and a number of other areas have already received the recommendation to wear medical masks. At the same time, some regions have already announced that the advisory nature will act until the end of the May holidays, and after them it will be impossible to go to a store or public transport without a mask or respirator - the requirement will become mandatory.

At a meeting with the governors, Vladimir Putin said that the heads of regions, based on the recommendations of Rospotrebnadzor, need to make a decision on further actions. And a little earlier, Kommersant said that the theme of the widespread introduction of a “mask regime” in the country was discussed the day before at a meeting of the working group of the State Council under the leadership of Sergei Sobyanin.

On the official website of the Moscow Mayor, there is still no information about the introduction of the regime throughout the country, including Moscow, however, according to the publication, during the meeting, the question of the spread of the regime on the capital was also considered. New Gazeta sent questions to the press service of the city hall on this subject.

The mask regime came to the Moscow region faster: on May 1, the Governor of Andrei Vorobyov came out, according to which, from May 1 to 11, residents of the Moscow Region were recommended to use “personal respiratory protection products (masks, respirators) when located in common areas”.

The list of such places, in particular, included retail objects, pharmacies and public transport. Until May 12, such a measure will be advisory in nature, however, after this, the number will be mandatory. For violators, a fine of 4 thousand rubles is provided.

The correspondent of Novye found by lawyer Alexei Glukhov about the experience of other regions and the legal assessment of the requirement to wear masks and respirators without fail.

Alexey Glukhov

Head of the Legal Service of the Agora project "Apology of Protest"

- Have you received a report of fines for violation of the mask regime in the regions in the regions?

- So far, complaints that a protocol has been drawn up or a decree on a violation of the mask regime has been made, we have not received us.

The security forces in the regions (even in those in which the mask regime has already been introduced) are limited to attracting only for violation of the self -isolation regime - for example, those who do not have digital pass. However, complaints come from the Far East (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk), from the Volga region from small and medium-sized businesses-for example, from small shops that continue to work.

Employees say that employees of local administrations are constantly being checked and have not yet been fined, but they scare them with fines for serving customers who come to the store without masks.

They are intimidated by fines under Article 20.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses - they are increased for business ( from 100 thousand to 300 thousand rubles. - Ed. ).

-Someone specially comes to the store to check who is in the mask, and who-without? How does this happen?

- The inspector from the authorities from the division for trading control comes and issues an order. So far, this is oral intimidation.

But I do not exclude that in the near future, protocols will be drawn up for both citizens and individual entrepreneurs for violation of the mask regime.

For example, for businessmen who are allowed to work in conditions of self -isolation, they will be the easiest victims for fines.

One person is enough in a store with a camera on the phone that will shoot: “Here, please, you have a person without a mask in your trading floor. Serving people without a mask - it means that you violate the rules, which means that here you have a fine. ” Moreover, the penalty, which in the current conditions will be comparable with a monthly profit.

- That is, it turns out that from sellers it is required not to serve people without masks. Is there a legal basis for such a situation: you came to the store and you are refused to maintain for this reason?

- This does not violate the law on the protection of consumer rights, because equal conditions are granted to all customers. There is no violation here.

Moreover, in this case, the seller may be able to call the police to hold this citizen liable for entering the store without a mask.

Relatively speaking [it works] as follows: you can buy a product from us only if you have a mask. Just as we sell alcohol or tobacco only to persons who have reached 18 years. That is, there is no violation of consumer rights.

I think that some of the largest stores can even use this for the benefit of themselves as a marketing move.

Conditionally: each buyer is a mask as a gift. This will be a way to attract customers.

- If for example, take the Moscow region, where, as in many regions, so far there is only a recommendation for the presence of a mask on the face in a public place. Until May 12, a recommendatory nature, but after the 12th, the requirement will become mandatory. As long as this is only a recommendation, you can’t fine a person without a mask?

- But this is a very controversial moment. Some law enforcers in the regions believe that everything that is indicated in regulatory acts in the regions is the rules of conduct, for the non -compliance of which is responsible. It doesn’t matter: to oblige citizens to do something or only recommend it to citizens.

But from the point of view of the law, the recommendation does not imply mandatory execution.

- According to the decree of Andrei Vorobyov, residents are recommended to use masks and respirators as a means of personal respiratory organs. If there is such a situation that it was not possible to buy a mask, and instead, a person closed his face with a scarf or scarf-will it be possible to somehow avoid a fine?

- This, of course, is a very strange formulation: why only medical masks and respirators?

There are no restrictions on medical masks in a number of European countries. You can tie your mouth there, even with a scarf, at least take off your T -shirt and tie it on your face - this will be enough to follow a mask regime.

We in the “protest apology” believe that the mask regime is a normal world practice in connection with a coronaviral infection.

But the authorities must provide people with either money to purchase these masks, or free masks.

In addition, Russia can expand the list of respiratory protection products. Because the effect will be approximately the same: what is from a disposable mask, that from reusable textile, from a scarf.