In order to suppress the unregistered activity of providing accommodation services based on the “one-day rental” principle, the Republic Market Inspection Service conducted an activity in the past month with 233 inspections carried out.

In 43 cases, it was determined that the persons did not properly register the business activity, and they advertised these services, for which they were banned from further work, as well as fined. Also, there were cases where certain irregularities were found in registered entities, and in these cases measures were ordered to eliminate irregularities and fines were imposed. As part of this action, fines in the total amount of BAM 30,200 were imposed.

This type of accommodation rental by natural persons is defined by the Law on Hospitality from 2017. Given that the legal prerequisites for the provision of these types of services have been created, we would like to emphasize that the priority goal of inspections is not fines, but the registration and legalization of entities, i.e. the introduction of their business within the legal framework.

We appeal to natural persons who provide this type of services or plan to start performing this activity, not to wait for the arrival of the inspector, but to initiate the legalization procedure on their own. The inspection will undertake all available measures in order to suppress unregistered activity, which represents unfair competition to entities that work legally and pay their obligations to workers and the state.