In particular, the amendments to the Code concern liability for violating legislation to ensure the sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population during an emergency, or under the threat of the spread of a potentially dangerous disease, or during restrictive measures (quarantine).
The amendments also concern responsibility for publishing deliberately false information in the media or information and telecommunications networks about situations that pose a threat to people’s lives and safety and about measures taken to ensure the safety of the population, as well as liability for publishing deliberately false socially significant information resulting in the death of a person, injury or damage to property, mass disturbance of public order or public security, or the closure of vital, transport and social infrastructure, lending institutions, or energy, industry and communications facilities.
The amendments also stipulate liability for selling medicines in breach of the legislation on their circulation regarding setting limits on wholesale or retail markups on the actual producer prices of these medicines.
They also establish administrative liability for non-compliance with the rules of behaviour during a high-alert regime in an area where there is an emergency or the threat of an emergency.