Courts: when the customer will have to pay for services rendered after the end of the state contract
The contract for communication services expired, but the contractor continued to provide them. He demanded to pay the debt. The customer did not do this. He explained that the perpetrator knew that the contract was limited to the period of time. There are no grounds for paying for services actually rendered without a contract. In addition, the customer indicated that special provisions of the law "on communications" can not be applied, since it does not apply to state authorities.
The courts have upheld the contractor's:
the customer is a budget institution. Such institutions are necessary to fulfill the powers of state bodies, so special rules of the law "on communications"are applied to them. Due to the specifics of legal relations the contractor had no right to stop providing communication services in relation to such a customer;
the contractor's refusal to provide such services, including when the contract expires, must be agreed in writing with the customer. In this case, the customer did not agree.
Document: Resolution of the Arbitration court of the far Eastern district of18.02.2020 in the case N A37-289/2019