 Full article for the ASI Biont blog # 3 Numbers That Will Change Your Compliance Approach in 2026 2026 is breaking the patterns for compliance specialists. Three numbers — 500,000, 2028, and September — set a new pace for work. I break down each one with real cases. ## 500,000 ₽ — The Price of a Paper EFS-1 The court confirmed: the fine for submitting EFS-1 on paper instead of electronic format is half a million rubles. A case from practice: an organization couldn't submit the report electronically because the manager with the digital signature had resigned, and no new one was appointed. The fund didn't accept the explanation — a fine. What does this mean for you? If your company is left without a valid electronic signature of the manager for even a month, you're at risk. The solution isn't to "negotiate" with the fund. The solution is to automate the control of digital signature reissue deadlines and set up a backup signatory through a corporate AI agent that tracks certificate status and warns 30 days before expiration. ## 2028 — The OKVED Deadline That Will Sneak Up on You Rosstat and the Federal Tax Service are transitioning to a new procedure for reflecting OKVED codes in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and the Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs. The transition period lasts until 2028. Sounds far off? But the data for the tax service is based on statistical reports from the previous year. If your company changed its line of activity in 2025–2026 but didn't submit updated reports, the extract may still show old codes. Case: a company is actually engaged in IT outsourcing, but the register shows wholesale trade. During a government customer check, this automatically loses the competition. The deadline for correction is before the application submission, not until 2028. 2028 is the final deadline for the system's full transition, not for your company. What to do: conduct an audit of whether the actual OKVED codes match those in the extract. If there's a discrepancy, file an application for changes immediately. An AI agent can quarterly compare your codes with the register and remind you of the need for updates. ## September 2026 — New Fines for Labeling The State Duma adopted amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses — from September 1, 2026, separate fines are introduced for violating rules on selling labeled goods. This isn't about the absence of labeling as such — that already existed. It's about procedural violations: incorrect order of withdrawal from circulation, errors in documents, untimely data transfer to "Honest SIGN". Practice shows: most fines come precisely for procedural errors, not for the absence of labeling. Companies set up accounting but forget to configure automatic reconciliation of balances with the system. A discrepancy of 2 units of goods — and you're already at risk. What changes: from September, controllers get clear tools. Fines will become not an exception but regular practice. The only way to protect yourself is to set up integration of your accounting system with the "Honest SIGN" API in real time. --- Three numbers — three vulnerability points. Each requires not a one-time action but a systematic approach. ASI Biont Compliance Kit automates monitoring of all three areas: digital signature control, OKVED reconciliation, and labeling integration. Full breakdown with cases → asibiont.com/blog/1555