Reforming Control and Supervisory Activities in the Field of Protection of the Population and Territories from Emergencies

Abstract

The paper discusses the direction of the reform of the «regulatory guillotine», namely the development of new trends in regulation for control and supervisory activities. The reasons for the reform, its goals and objectives, as well as the results achieved are analyzed. The key reason for launching the «regulatory guillotine» is the problem of redundancy and obsolescence of the regulatory framework. The author characterizes the current state of control and supervisory activities carried out by the state authorities of the Russian Federation, analyzes trends and summarizes the results of the ongoing reforms. The paper considers the process of reforming control and supervisory activities in the Russian Federation, which, despite the adoption of Federal Law No. 248-FZ of July 31, 2020 regulating this field of activity, is still incomplete and its improvement continues. This is evidenced by the absence of an exhaustive list of the relations of types of control (supervision) and bodies obliged to carry out these activities. The author notes that today the legislator has fixed a strictly defined list of types of federal (state) control (supervision), in respect of which a risk-oriented approach is mandatory. Based on the analysis of regulatory legal acts of the regional level aimed at regulating state supervision in the field of protection of the population and territories from emergencies, the author concludes that these acts duplicate the provisions of federal laws. On the one hand, such parallelism contributes to the effective application of regional legislation, since the law enforcement officer has all the necessary provisions for the implementation of control (supervisory) activities collected in one document, on the other hand, not all duplicated norms contain primary information, therefore, they interfere with the understanding of the powers actually assigned to public authorities. It is pointed out that it is necessary to partially refuse to copy a number of norms that correspond to the specifics of regional state supervision in the field of protection of the population and territories from natural and man-made emergencies. The author concludes that the regulation of control and supervisory activities at the regional level needs to be finalized.