Aleksey Pesoshin takes part in All-Russian video-conference on reform of control and supervisory activities of supervisory agencies of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia

20.04.2017

On April 20, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in the All-Russian video-conference on the progress of the reform of control and supervisory activities and law enforcement practice of supervisory agencies of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia held by Russian Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov in the National Crisis Management Centre.

Minister of the Open Government Mikhail Abyzov, representatives of the Russian Government Establishment, Analytical Centre of the Russian Government, the Expert Council of the Russian Government, the “Forum” Analytical Centre, political parties, Russian Presidential Plenipotentiary on protections of businessmen’s rights, heads of federal executive authorities, as well as Procuracy and representatives of non-governmental organizations take part in the conference.

Participants of the forum held a public debate of the Russian Emergencies Ministry’s risk-oriented approach to supervisory activities.

Speaking at the event, Puchkov noted that administrative burden on businesses tends to lower as part of the Reform of control and supervisory activities in 2017.

“We follow consistent policy to remove administrative barriers for entrepreneurs, to improve and develop methods and approaches to control activities. In accordance with modern requirements, the Russian Emergencies Ministry pays special attention to the development of supervisory activities system”, the Minister said. “In general, the number of planned inspections of all kinds of supervisory activities is decreased by 35 per cent in 2017”. 

The Russian Emergencies Ministry is one of the main participants of the test projects of the Open Government and the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia to introduce initiatives in that field. The main purpose of the reform of control and supervisory activities is to decrease administrative burden on organizations and citizens, engaged into entrepreneurship, and to improve quality of supervisory activities. The reform must decrease the number of people killed and injured in the accidents via preventive measures.

The Emergencies Ministry introduces new forms of non-governmental inspections to replace the state control through audit, declaring, certification of products. Also, preventive measures that include the whole spectrum of means, such as propaganda, training and information of population, must replace inspections.

In 2017 inspectors will be mostly engaged into carrying out of preventive measures, which will take place in every Russian region, in order to prevent violations of necessary requirements, as well as response to appearing emergencies, including fires.

The Emergencies Minister also pointed out that the Ministry introduced survey for businessmen to assess quality and perception of inspections. He also said that major part of questions received from businesses concerns unplanned inspections.

Such conferences already took place in 67 Russian regions and got widespread response from the business community and media. The conference will take place in 18 more regions in the form of a videoconference.


Tatarstan President's Press Office, Elena Britvina