28 September, Minsk /Lilia Krapivina - BELTA/. Requirements for controlling and supervisory bodies that inspect the activities of business entities are being tightened in Belarus. This was stated today by the Chairman of the Committee of State Control, Alexander Yakobson, commenting on Decree No. 332, which comes into force on October 1, 2012, as reported by a BELTA correspondent. The Decree on Certain Measures to Improve Control (Supervisory) Activities in Belarus has established stricter procedural requirements for inspectors and increased the responsibility of officials for violations of the procedure and purpose of inspections. It is established that the recognition of an inspection as illegal entails the invalidity of its results. If an inspection is not completed, it will be immediately terminated. The exception is cases where facts indicating signs of a crime are discovered, Alexander Yakobson noted. If a violation is found in the appointment or conduct of an inspection, it will entail a fine of up to 100 base units. Strict measures will be applied to the guilty parties. "We will strictly uphold the rule of law so that incorrect inspection measures are not applied to business entities," emphasized the Chairman of the CSC. For this purpose, the decree grants additional powers to the CSC and its regional structures. They are empowered to independently exclude inspections of any control body that do not comply with the requirements of the legislation from the coordination plans of inspections. That is, if inspections that are not needed are included in the plans, state control will exclude them. In principle, the CSC has already been carrying out such work before the decree was introduced. As early as last year, the committee did not allow inspections of those entities that had no facts of violations. This year, from January to August, more than 70 inspections of conscientious business entities were excluded from the coordination plans. As of today (for the first half of the year and for two months of the second half), more than 2,000 inspections of organizations have been excluded from the coordination plans in general.