On 9 October, 2014, in Katerina hotel, Loftice organised and held the 11th practical administration round-table meeting for administrative managers and corporate vehicle fleet managers.
The subject read, Corporate Fleets: Practical Aspects Of Managing And Risk Analysis.
Companies represented at the meeting included AFI Development, AstraZeneca, Avaya, Bayer, Beiersdorf, Boehringer Ingelheim, BSK Bytovaya Tekhnika, Cargill, Covidient, Danone, Diageo, Dupont, Eli Lilly, EON Russia, Ernst & Young, ExxonMobil, FBK, Firmenich, Galderma, GE, GlowByte Consulting, General Motors, Heidelberg, Henkel, Johnson&Johnson, JTI, KNAUF INSULATION, KRKA, Mary Kay, MC Bank Rus & MCFR, Media Markt, MegaLabs, MSP Bank, MTS, Nike, Novo Mesto, PepsiCo, PROGRESS, Roche Moscow, Roche Diagnostics, Sandoz, Sanofi, Severstal, Sibirskaya Servisnaya Kompaniya, Takeda, Tetra Pak, Thomson Reuters, TEVA, Total, Volkswagen, Volvo Vostok, Wikimart, and X5 Retail Group.
Dmitry Mitroshin, deputy head of the Ministry of Interior’s traffic security administration for statutory regulation and international cooperation, clarified a number of issues concerning…
- … vehicle registration:
- registering a vehicle on the territory of another administrative unit of the Russian Federation, beginning with 15 October, 2013;
- extended term of vehicle registration;
- registering a vehicle in a different region;
- replacing number plates in case of registering in another administrative unit;
- replacing number plates rendered unusable;
- grounds for inspecting a vehicle;
- number plate theft.
- … amendments to the law on third-party liability insurance:
- accident registration in absence of police officers beginning with 1 August, 2014;
- increased maximum compensations on self-registered accidents;
- amendments to come in power in 2015.
- … the most recent changes to legislation on motor vehicles (Law #437-FZ):
- responsibility;
- increased fines for releasing a defective vehicle.
- … the right to drive on the territory of the Russian Federation for foreigners.
Yury Vatskovsky, Master of Laws, who specialises in civil law, shared his expert’s opinion on the subject entitled Corporate Car Fleet: Managing Legal Risks.
Yury went into detail on two kinds of risks: the risk of inflicting damage to the property, health, or life of third persons and the risk of breaching regulations concerning vehicle ownership and use. He described the consequences should each kind of risk mature, and gave advice on reducing and eliminating risks.
The second part of the meeting saw Aleksey Fadeyev, head of corporate fleet management with Loftice, explain the important aspects of running corporate fleets of different sizes and touch upon the issues of organising maintenance, insurance, and software use.
