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. The changes were developed by the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia in pursuance of the Federal Law No. 306-FZ and are aimed at reducing the administrative burden on legal entities and self-employed entrepreneurs during the inspections. In addition, it will keep costs down and optimize the work of inspectors.
As of July 1, 2016, the state control authorities can no longer ask for legal entities and self-employed entrepreneurs to submit documents that are held at the disposal of other authorities: such documents must be requested and submitted within 5 working days, mainly electronically, within the framework of interdepartmental cooperation.
At the moment, the list approved by the Government of the Russian Federation contains almost 200 of such documents provided by 40 agencies. Another 30 documents have been added to the list by the signed order. They are, in particular, licenses to collect, transport, handle, dispose, neutralize and dump waste of I-IV hazard ratings (provider – Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage), data from the state register of hazardous production facilities (provider – Russian Technical Supervisory Authority), information on issuing International certificates of ship security (provider – Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport of Russia), and more.
“Since passing the law on public services in 2010, the process of providing them has become much easier due to interdepartmental cooperation Now we extending this experience to control and supervisory activities. In general, this should lead to decreasing the administrative burden on business and to optimizing the mechanism of conducting inspections,” explained Deputy Minister of the Economic Development of Russia Savva Shipov.