Anti-corruption Expertise of Regional and Municipal Regulations in the System of Corruption Prevention Measures by the Prosecutor’s Office

Abstract

The article analyzes the problem of the prosecutor’s office conducting an anti-corruption examination of legal acts in the Russian Federation. The paper presents the author’s assessment of the methodological approaches currently in force to identify and eliminate corruption-causing factors in regulatory documents and their projects, characterized by an understanding of the theoretical foundations of anti-corruption expertise, potential and real risks of corruption actions. The analysis of theoretical aspects is associated with an in-depth study of the practice of prosecutorial activity in this area, which allowed us to form an idea of the corruption-causing factors that have the greatest prevalence Based on the conducted comparative legal study of the legislation of the CIS member states, the author concludes that it is possible to borrow a number of practices that have shown a positive result during their implementation: active involvement of the scientific community in conducting anti-corruption expertise, consolidation in the national legislation of the country of uniform requirements for the procedure for sending a draft normative act to subjects of expert activity and the composition of the attached package of documents, legislative consolidation of the right and obligations of the prosecutor’s office to carry out the examination of draft normative acts The author shows that in modern conditions, special attention should be paid to the problem of implementing the results of the anti-corruption expertise, notes the need for detailed legislative regulation of the procedure for considering the prosecutor’s claims to eliminate corruption-causing factors and establishing a list of grounds for refusing to satisfy the demands of prosecutors, specifying individual issues of judicial appeal.