Since the 1st of January 2009 the licenses allowing construction activity in Russia are no more edited. The organizations dealing with engineering investigations, architectural constructional projection, construction, capital repair and whose license is still valid may work in the former mode but until the 01 of January 2010, because thereafter licenses of that sphere of activity will no longer be valid. Now the companies will join the Self Regulating Organization (SRO) in order to receive permission for the construction.
No matter how much we wish it, but the SRO has entered our life and commences placing definite positions which are merely need to be reckoned with. It suffices to enter the website of Rostechnadzor, where the register is being refilled with new registered non-commercial partnerships as SRO every day. Notwithstanding the rapid growth and enlargement of SRO the participants’ approach to the problem is quite ambiguous. The majority is joining SRO not at its own will but being in a hopeless situation.
So the situation with SRO has divided into two parties. Being the members of SRO adherents of the first party criticize the idea of the mechanism in the construction sphere preferring to act according to the old scheme, while the others count on SRO. So both the parties are absolutely self-righteous and stand their ground.
It’s noteworthy that both viewpoints are liable to exist as they are explicable. The first one wants to save the old practice of getting a license which used to be edited on its face, besides under those conditions it was rather easy to establish a new company. But now it is a futureless plan for the newcomers to begin business-making in the construction market, especially without a starting capital.
It is necessary to remind that the procedure was much easier before: it was enough to collect the documents, apply to the appropriate body and acquire a license. None could be refused except for the official reasons (non-conformity of the founding documents). What is going on now? For instance if a person decided to carry on his labor of love and for this purpose he saved the necessary sum for the entrance fee, collected all the certificates filled in the forms, made applications, received all the issues etc, but still he has no guarantee to get a place in the sun in SRO, furthermore he will have to fight for the rights and prove the solvency.
One more unpleasant point is that other members of SRO do not want to pay for the intentional or accidental faults of colleague-competents and teach them to work properly. In these cases the get-togethers are not excluded, to answer and pay for which is a duty of everybody.
The others are optimistic and hope that the SRO is the first step to the growth of the quality of installations, possibility of the presence of worthy companies capable to work competently in the market. Furthermore in view of a bitter experience of the licensing system, bureaucratization of economy in construction area will be changed by a new professional team which are able not only to control but also be responsible for each other – so to say to work on the principle of compensational fund of SRO “ One for all, all for one”
Anyway, time will show who is right and who is guilty. Meanwhile there is only one positive thing of first SRO activity in the construction sphere, it is a huge number of vacancies for management staff, which is especially important during the global economic crisis and the strict and fare approach to the choice of the candidates to be the member of SRO which will definitely reflect on the quality of the construction sphere.
