On Legal Support of Priority National Projects

Abstract

Priority national projects, being a fundamentally new institution of the country’s economic and social development, could not fully comply with the existing legal forms of financial planning and the budget process that have developed over the long previous periods. The implementation of priority national projects, especially in the regions and municipalities, causes frequent conflicts in the preparation and execution of budgets and government spending. We are dealing with a two-channel budgeting mechanism with insufficient linking of these channels to each other. The essence of the problems considered by the authors consists in ways of adapting new, modern forms of financial planning for socio-economic development, covered by priority national projects to the legal regime for drawing up, approving the federal and regional budgets provided for by the Budget Code of the Russian Federation and a number of other legislative acts and decisions of the Government of the Russian Federation. The authors of this publication set themselves several tasks. First task is to trace the origin of the idea of changes the economy and social sphere of Russia on the ground of the realization of national projects. Second task is to determine how the concept of national projects are reflected in modern Russian legislation. Thirdly is to answer the question what additional steps need to be taken in order to ensure decent legal support the implementation the national projects ideas. The authors studied a huge array of law documents, publications about national projects, used theoretical research of constitutional, administrative and financial law in order to solve the tasks posed above and get a valid result on the base of this paper.