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The Ministry of Economy and Innovation ensures that everything is ready and explains when the company will have to pay the fine for checking the passport and when the customer of the store will have to pay. The most astute also run the risk of criminal liability.
The commercial city of Urmas located in Kaunas has 70 entrances to the common shopping centers. If the Government does not change its mind, as of September 13, each client who comes will be served only with a passport of opportunities. The residents are alarmed.
“Let’s go shopping with a passport for opportunities, we all have to get vaccinated to get the order. It’s better to get tired than to close everyone back and be out of work again, ”says the resident.
“I’ll go somewhere else, I don’t think there is such a need,” says another.
“It is a pity that people who can go to the most expensive stores are now being segregated from those who can go to the cheapest ones. Classify and classify people, ”says the Kaunas resident.
Some businessmen realize that less than a month before the new restrictions began, the authorities still did not clarify how the mass passport control would have to be carried out.
“There is not a single resolution, a legal act that specifies who will be responsible for the inspection and how this inspection process should be organized”, says Dovilė Lengvenienė, representative of the commercial city “Urmas”.
As a result, traders are preparing for a wide variety of scenarios. And for the simplest, part of the responsibility would fall on the buyers.
We will print posters and hang them on the door so that we do not hand over the passport of the visitors without opportunities. It will have to stick to almost all 70 doors in the corridors, ”says D. Lengvenienė.
And the most difficult thing is when the owners of the point of sale will have to control each person who enters the territory.
“If we have to close some entrances or we have to monitor each and every buyer ourselves, we may even do so at the entrances to the commercial city of Urmo. It will require a lot of resources and we see discrimination compared to retail chains . which will have sales without restrictions, without restrictions, will be able to trade not only in basic necessities ”, says D. Lengvenienė.
Market and small business representatives are bothered by not knowing where to take people and resources for people’s checks.
Dalia Matukienė, President of the Council of Small and Medium Enterprises, says: “There is a company with one to nine employees. Most have 1 to 4 employees. Family members work. They do everything they do in a large company. This means that if a person needs to be removed and built to verify passport possibilities it is a huge administrative burden, not just administrative. “
Vytenis Butkevičius, Markets and Markets Representative, says: “When it comes to markets, we already have good ventilation, huge areas and all pavilions are even over-ventilated. Why put even more pressure on this business when we are already the safest? This virus is an indoor disease. There are many inputs, many outputs, how to control who will take responsibility. “
The Ministry of Economy and Innovation, which presented the opportunity passport, explains that most of the responsibility for the inspection must be assumed by the owners of the business premises, who must ensure that each person is inspected. It is true that the procedure is simplified, traders will not be obliged to verify personal documents.
Vincas Jurgutis, Vice Minister of Economy and Innovation, affirms: “A business representative, a service provider, must verify if a person has a passport for opportunities. If there is any doubt or question, there is also the possibility to verify the identity document, but this is certainly not mandatory. “
There are thousands of fines
The company will receive a fine of up to 6 thousand. only if you attend and admit unexamined persons without a passport. If the client does not come with his own or with a false passport and is inserted to the inspectors, the offender will be penalized for falsifying documents, which can also lead to criminal liability.
“The responsibility of a person, if a person falsifies documents, is the responsibility of the same person. It does not matter if it is a passport of opportunity or another document”, says V. Jurgutis.
It is true that it is still unlikely that all this preparation will not be needed for the new restrictions. According to Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, if the number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals decreases in Lithuania by September 13, no new restrictions will be introduced for residents without a passport.
“Of the people lying in hospitals, the majority, about 90 percent, are not vaccinated with a single dose. Yesterday there were almost 70 people recently admitted to the hospital, and that’s a lot. And if even the rate of vaccination is fast, but hospitals fill up even faster, it is natural that these restrictions are very difficult to avoid, ”said I. Šimonytė.
There are currently 425 COVID-19 patients in Lithuanian hospitals. Two-thirds of the population 18 years and older received at least one dose of COVID-19 in the country.
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