Improvement of legal regulation of public control

Abstract

This article analyzes the individual provisions of the draft federal law on amendments to the Federal law "On the Fundamentals of Social Control in the Russian Federation". This bill seeks to improve the legal foundations of organization and implementation of social control over the activities of the organs of state power, bodies of local self-government, state and municipal organizations, other agencies and organizations with separate governmental or other public authority. The adoption in 2014 of the Federal Law "On the Bases of Public Control in the Russian Federation" was an important step, not only in the development of public control, but also for the emergence of civil society in the Russian Federation. However, the practice has shown the presence of numerous gaps and conflicts with other federal laws. As legislative innovations should be recognize the following proposals of the drafts persons: the expansion of the actors of social control through inclusion in the list of individuals and their groupings; the introduction of legislative turnover of such category as "public interests as a goal of social control"; establishing the responsibilities of the bodies and organizations, whose activities on the implementation of the tasks entrusted to them by the state or other public authority is subject to public control, take into account the results of social control; the establishment of a federal state information system (electronic democracy) that provides collection, processing, accumulation, storage, retrieval and transmission of information on the activities of the entities of social control and individuals whose activities on the implementation of the tasks entrusted to them by the state or other public authority is subject to public control; the introduction of open licenses under which it is proposed to disseminate information on public control. In the article these proposals are subjected to critical analysis, the author highlights positive and negative aspects of the Bill, and suggests ways of harmonizing legal regulation of relations in the sphere of public control.