OREANDA-NEWS. The sum that the Russian government is ready to allocate to support car industry in 2015, is rising gradually – during the implementation of new sector programs, designed to support directly or indirectly the automakers or stimulate sales in the automotive market. Today we are talking about the amount of over 128 billion. 

The complex of measures of the automotive industry, which the government implements and plans to implement in the future, was announced at the Third Convention of ROAD by the director of the department of transport and special engineering of Ministry of Industry and Trade, Alexander Morozov. Some of them have already started, others are ready to start in June and July, in the third and fourth quarter of 2015.

Government incentives of car market with programs that have already begun to be implemented in the country, according to conservative estimates of Ministry of Industry and Trade, should bring the additional sales of more than 400 thousand transport units.

The lion's share of these 400 thousand falls, of course, on the segment of passenger cars. In particular:

- Transportation of produced cars in the Far East (under the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of December 27th 2012 N 1401) - can bring an additional 40 thousand units;

- The ban on the admission of goods from foreign countries in state procurement (under the RF Government Resolution dated on July 14, 2014, N656) - 1,5 thousand units;

- The parc renewal program of vehicles (within the RF Government Decree N 244) - 97 thousand units In January-May and 44 thousand units in June and July;

- The preferential car loans - 190 thousand units;

- The discount car leasing - 10 thousand units.

Similar programs, albeit on a smaller scale, are launched to stimulate sales of light commercial vehicles, trucks and buses.

In addition, the number of programs to help automakers work indirectly. Thus, the government intends to spend about 7 billion Rubles to help automakers in the modernization of production (Decree dated on August 1st, 2011 N 640), more than 59 billion Rubles – for industrial subsidies (RF Government Resolution dated on April 1st, 2015 N303), state guarantees of GAZ Group - 25 billion Rubles (to ensure the sustainability of the largest manufacturer of light commercial vehicles).