A draft government decree has been published in Russia, which sets out the rules for calculating the technological fee, the procedure and deadline for its payment, as well as the procedure for refunding overpaid amounts. The draft is posted on the federal portal of draft legal acts (ID 165947) and prepared by the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
The market needs the document for a simple reason: the technological fee is already fixed in the legislative framework, and businesses need clear mechanics in order to calculate the load and not assemble the processes "manually". The publication states that the regulations should enter into force on September 1, 2026.
Importers of electronic component base (electronic modules) and products containing electronic modules, as well as manufacturers of the corresponding component base and products are named in the perimeter of the payers. The OKPD2 26 class "Manufacture of computers, electronic and optical products" appears among the codes.
For participants in foreign economic activity, the key risk area is the quality of product data and classification. When the collection "clings" to the wrong group or to the wrong reference books, the financial model starts counting payments according to the wrong contour. Then there are discrepancies and the time it takes to find out the reasons. The second practical block is contracts and cost. If the fee adds a new layer of costs, it begins to be taken into account in purchase prices, in margin calculations and in volume planning through channels with different price sensitivity.
It is also important that the draft describes the refund of overpayments. For financial services, this is an occasion to fix the rules in advance: who controls the correctness of charges, who collects a package of documents, who is responsible for deadlines. A regular payment without an internal process almost always leads to overpayments "hanging" for months and disappearing into the operating system.
