The article is devoted to the analysis of the ongoing reform of control and supervisory activities in Russia in eight areas indicated in the Reform Passport. The step-by-step analysis revealed a number of systemic topical administrative and legal problems of an organizational and legal nature that reduce the quality of modernization of control and supervisory activities of public authorities, which, in turn, allows us to characterize the current stage of reform as non-systemic, incomplete. The main conclusion made by the authors in this article is the conclusion about the need to develop legislation in the field of improving administrative and legal relations in the field of state control and supervision, as well as the need to review the main approaches to reform, the introduction of the principle of continuity.