The state Duma will rebuild the work of the three departments
The speaker of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin reforming apparatus and intends to work with the government to amend the regulations.
The leadership of the state Duma starts reform unit, told “Izvestia” a source close to the leadership of the lower house, and confirmed speaker of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin.
In the Duma want the government implemented its mandatory.
According to the interlocutor of the edition, is already reached initial agreement on making appropriate synchronized amendments to the regulations of the government and the lower house of Parliament. In the government, “Izvestia” said that the work under current regulations. According to the publication, the changes of the RIA procedure previously discussed with the head of Committee of civil initiatives (THD) Alexei Kudrin.
The reform apparatus
Reform of the state Duma, which will begin March 6, will concern three departments: analytical, economic and management public relations and media relations
According to the source “Izvestia”, most likely, will be reformed analytical Department, which will become the expert-analytical.
At the same time, the financial management will be the financial and economic transfer of the functions of forecasting, examination and analysis within the newly formed expert-analytical Department. The latter will also conduct expert assessments of draft laws.
Earlier for these purposes each of the fractions was allocated funding in the amount of 10 billion rubles
To order expert assessment of draft laws to make themselves have factions, but through the apparatus of the state Duma. In conducting expert-analytical Directorate will include issues tenders and purchases the services of expert organizations.
At the moment, the economic direction is headed by Ivan Oskolkov and analytical Andrei Petrov. Both working in GD almost from the beginning of the previous (sixth) legislature. The source of “Izvestia” considers that, most likely, with the increased functionality of these two areas, their superiors will be replaced.
The office for public relations and media relations in the office of the Deputy chief of staff now headed by Olga Sitnikov. The reform of these two positions will be separated.
— The combination is ineffective due to the fact that the office is large and requires constant attention, — said the interlocutor of “Izvestia”.
Self control is with high probability will be headed by Konstantin Tarasov (now Deputy chief of the same management), working in the office of the DG for 13 years. Olga Sitnikova, the post of Deputy chief of staff will coordinate activities of the Directorate of expert-analytical and control of library collections (parliamentary library).
Regulatory impact assessment
The leadership of the State Duma expects that the government will submit to its rules amendments that will strengthen the cooperation of the Parliament and Cabinet in the legislative process, said the source “Izvestia”.
We are talking about the conduct of regulatory impact assessment, which according to the regulations of the government is carried out in the preparation of bills for the second reading
Now, in accordance with the regulations (paragraph 104) the Cabinet itself “makes a decision about the possibility of such assessment”. In the state Duma would like the government regulations there was a norm about obligatory carrying out of ODS in the initiatives, if approved by the government, and in the case of disapproval, said the source “Izvestia”.
— It will be real progress to improve the quality of lawmaking, — said the interlocutor of the edition. — Evaluation of doing the Ministry, the specialists of “Support” and “Business Russia” with the participation of experts. Therefore, for the opposition, which introduces a bill, it is essential to hear such an assessment, which involved the business community. In addition, you can order it at the Higher school of Economics, conducted a contest through the system of public procurement.
The experts
Associate Professor of the Institute of social Sciences of Ranepa Ekaterina Shulman told “Izvestia” that the conduct of regulatory impact assessment it is extremely important for the business community.
It is held by the government for those bills which are brought in the state Duma, the Cabinet, but parliamentary bills, according to the expert, the assessment of de facto nobody does
— ODS is a very serious topic, the last few years as discussed in the government and the expert community. We are talking about the forecasting system is the burden that new regulation places on the economy, — said the expert. — Before you take something, you have to calculate how much it will cost and, accordingly, whether you need it to do. We are in this respect far behind his partner in the Customs Union and the Eurasian Union — Kazakhstan, which took the lead in the implementation of the regulations necessary to save the economy from the shaft of the constant changes that place a substantial burden on business.
Ekaterina Shulman noted that the question of when, who and whose forces will conduct ODS is discussed and debated in the expert community and in the government. However, the expert expressed surprise at the fact that the state Duma is actually recommends to the Cabinet to take the assessment on themselves.
— It gives the government some leverage, she said. — A certain strangeness in this: from the point of view of the independence of Parliament, it would be logical that the Duma held the ODS on their own or through an independent expert institutions. But it is better to let the evaluation will be to make the Cabinet than none.
Director of the RIA Center of NRU HSE Daniil Tsygankov told “Izvestia” that in recent years the state Duma only once wanted to use the rule laid down in the regulations of the government to conduct a regulatory impact assessment of parliamentary initiatives.
It happened in the fall of 2015 when the now ex-speaker Sergei Naryshkin, has estimated the bill Irina Spring (“United Russia”) on the trade
— The state Duma must acquire their own center of competence in ODS, says Daniil Tsygankov. — This is done in the parliaments of France, Switzerland, Sweden, in the European Parliament. Thus, the state Duma would be able to evaluate economically important bills, like my own, and introduced by the government. For this you need to change the Duma regulations and create separate control of ODS (to give the function of economic and analytical Department of the office of the state Duma). Lately a lot of talk about improving the quality of bills and their preliminary examination, and the introduction of parliamentary ODS would solve these problems.
Last year, according to Daniel Tsygankov, the HSE has addressed such suggestions to the Center for strategic research of Alexei Kudrin.
— Alternative for the state Duma — restart mechanism feasibility study of the bills. Now, such justification is a dummy, simply write “does Not require additional expenses from the budget.” We must, instead, was the real calculations, not only for budget, but also for businesses and citizens, — said Daniel Tsygankov.
In the government work as before
In the government “news” did not comment on possible amendments to the regulations, stating that in the moment, guided by current standards.
17 February, during the plenary session the speaker of the state Duma has raised the issue that the government deployed reasoned negative reviews on parliamentary bills (in case the Cabinet did not support the initiative).
Then Vyacheslav Volodin has noticed, addressing to the Plenipotentiary of the government Alexander Sinenko the need for “a more creative approach to rate regulation”
— The performance of the Plenipotentiary of the government provides a statement of position, — said Vyacheslav Volodin. — When the discussion of such bills, which you are supported, you could invite a support group from the Ministry and convincingly state their position. Then maybe we wouldn’t have such a number of the presentations and the discussion went to another level, held with the participation of a third party.
Alexander Sinenko said in response that in this case would have “the duty to keep the whole group from each of the Ministry” in the state Duma in plenary meetings.
According to the source “Izvestia”, later in the course of negotiations the parties discussed the possibility that the government will also convincingly Express their position and in the case where it supports the bill.
Negotiations with the government concerning amendments to the regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers will be completed in March
Mirror parallel amendments should appear in the regulations of the lower chamber.