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The Federation Council approved the law developed by the Ministry of Economic Development. According to the new legislation, multifunctional centers (MFC) will be able to provide bundled public (municipal) services on one application. MFCs will prepare the required packages of documents and make further steps to provide each service. This approach is the cornerstone of the “one window” principle, according to which the applicant doesn’t need to directly interact with public authorities to receive public services.

The annual monitoring aims to identify, systematize, and analyze the problems surrounding the digitization of public services. As a part of the monitoring events, the Ministry of Economic Development assessed the accessibility and convenience of electronic services on the gosuslugi.ru portal.

Savva Shipov, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Igor Drozdov, Chairman of the Board of Skolkovo Fund and Head of the Statutory regulation center, and Ruslan Ibragimov, Corporate and Legal Vice-President at PAO “MTS” and leader of the Statutory regulation team, presented a statutory regulation plan for digital economy.

At the Government session, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev emphasized that the Draft Law on Public Control (Supervision) and Municipal Control in the Russian Federation is important for both businesses and individuals. “The quality of food, medicine, education, health care, and utility services is greatly determined by the effectiveness of public control,” Medvedev said.

The Federal Accreditation Service (Rosaccreditation) joined the Multilateral Mutual Recognition Arrangement of the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC MRA). The news was announced at the session of the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) General Assembly and International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) in Vancouver.

The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted a law that makes it easier for self-employed entrepreneurs and legal entities to electronically register their occupational status via multi-functional centers (MFC).

This is what the Head of the Ministry of Economic Development said at the parliamentary hearings on the “Draft Law on Public and Municipal Control (Supervision) in the Russian Federation” developed by the Ministry of Economic Development. The hearings, that took place on October 19, featured about 250 members of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, representatives of business associations and executive branch agencies, as well as experts.

Savva Shipov, Deputy Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation, attended the Open Innovations forum. At the “Legal Tech. Looking into the Future: Robots Instead of Lawyers, Program Code Instead of Law” session, he addressed how public agencies adopt new technologies in their everyday work.

During the panel discussion “EAEU digital reboot. A new look at the economy ", Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Savva Shipov spoke about the plans to implement the priority program “Digital Economy of the Russian Federation.” The event became part of the international forum “Eurasian Week” that took place in Astana.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed the order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1650-p that expands the list of documents requested and received within the framework of interdepartmental information exchange by state control (supervision) authorities when organizing and conducting inspections by other authorities and organizations that are in possession of these documents.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on establishing the Subcommittee on digital economy under the Government Committee on the use of information technology to improve the quality of life and the conditions for conducting entrepreneurship activities.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law No. 206-FZ “On amending articles 19.6.1 and 28.3 of the Russian Federation Administrative Offence Code” developed by the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia.

The draft federal law “On amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation with regards to some civil registration procedures at the Multifunctional Centers for providing state and municipal services” was presented at the meeting of the Committee on Local Administration by Deputy Minister of Economic Development Savva Shipov.

The Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Maxim Oreshkin took part in the workshop organized by the Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs on the use of blockchain technology in state and corporate governance.

During the meeting, he discussed the issues of implementing the priority program in the constituent territories of the Russian Federation, as well as of coordinating the program activities at the federal and regional levels.

“The ban to conduct inspections prescribed by the requirements of the executive agencies of the USSR and the Russian Federation comes into effect in July. 25 years is more than enough time for all the necessary and relevant changes to be reflected in the current legislation, instead of continuing to be based on outdated acts of the Soviet period,” said Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Savva Shipov during the staff meeting of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation and the Ministry for Development of the Russian Far East in Khabarovsk.

RusAccreditation became the 38th member of the APLAC MRA –the Mutual Recognition Arrangement of the Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation, which brings together accreditation bodies of 24 economies in the Asia Pacific region.

The Law-Making Commission has approved the federal law draft “On amendments to the federal law “On organizing the provision of public and municipal services” developed by the Ministry of Economic Development regarding the possibility of providing several public (municipal) services at the Public Service Centers by submitting a single application request.”