Presidium of the State Council of the Russian Federation

Article 19 of the Law “On Local Government and Self-Government” Presidium of the Council.

Presidiums are created in regional (Minsk city), district, city (cities of regional subordination) Councils. The work of the city (city of district subordination), settlement and village Councils is organized by the chairman of the corresponding Council.

The Presidium of the Council includes the Chairman of the Council, his deputy (deputies), and chairmen of the standing committees of the Council. By decision of the Council, the presidium may include other deputies of the Council. The chairmen of the standing committees, who are members of the presidium, perform their duties without interrupting their main official or production activities.

The main form of activity of the Council Presidium is the meeting. Meetings of the Council Presidium are held as necessary, but at least once a quarter.

Meetings of the Presidium of the Council are convened and chaired by the Chairman of the Council, and in his absence - by the Deputy Chairman of the Council. Decisions of the Presidium of the Council are made by a majority vote of its members. A meeting of the Presidium of the Council is valid if at least two-thirds of its members are present.

Presidium of the Council:

1) organizes the work of convening sessions of the Council, informs deputies and brings to the attention of the population the time and place of the session, as well as issues submitted for consideration by the Council and decisions taken on them;

2) manages the preparation of sessions of the Council and issues submitted for their consideration;

3) coordinates the activities of permanent and temporary commissions and deputy groups, submits to the Council for consideration proposals on the creation of permanent commissions of the Council;

4) organizes control over the implementation of Council decisions;

5) informs the Council about its activities;

6) assists deputies in the exercise of their powers and ensures them necessary information;

7) provides assistance to deputies in conducting receptions of citizens, preparing reports to voters and work collectives;

8) makes proposals to the session of the Council on issues related to the implementation of the rights and performance of the duties of deputies, including the release of deputies from the performance of their production duties during the preparation and conduct of sessions of the Council, meetings of its permanent and temporary commissions;

9) organizes the interaction of the Council with executive committees and local administrations, public associations, labor collectives and bodies of territorial public self-government;

10) ensures the transparency of the work of the Council;

11) organizes discussion by citizens of draft decisions of the Council and other important issues of local importance; ensures broad participation of labor collectives, public associations and citizens in the development, adoption and implementation of decisions on issues of local importance;

12) ensures consideration of citizens’ appeals addressed to the Council in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Belarus on citizens’ appeals and, if necessary, makes proposals on citizens’ appeals for consideration at a session of the Council;

13) considers issues of awards and incentives for labor collectives and citizens within the competence of the Council and introduces in the prescribed manner proposals for nominations for awards and incentives;

14) exercises the powers provided for by the Election Code of the Republic of Belarus and other acts of legislation of the Republic of Belarus on elections, referendums, recall of a deputy;

15) submits, in cases provided for by the legislation of the Republic of Belarus, for consideration by the Council issues on early termination of the powers of deputies;

Kabanov Pavel Alexandrovich, doctor legal sciences, Director of the Anti-Corruption Research Institute of the Private Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education "Institute of Economics, Management and Law" (Kazan).

The work describes for the first time from a criminological point of view legal regulation activities of the Presidium of the Presidential Council Russian Federation on anti-corruption, auxiliary working bodies (groups and commissions) formed by it, the specifics of their activities are reviewed and assessed, and measures to improve their activities are proposed. Among the main measures to improve the effectiveness of the activities of the Presidium of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for combating corruption, it is proposed to bring the regulations on it in accordance with the current Russian federal legislation on public service and anti-corruption legislation, and to increase the effectiveness of the activities of the auxiliary working bodies (groups and commissions) formed by it ) it is necessary to develop regulations about them, fixing in them the goals and objectives of the activity, uniform requirements for personnel, etc.

Key words: corruption, anti-corruption, council, presidium of the council, conflict of interest, civil service, civil servant, working group, commission.

Presidium of the Russian Federation President's council and established working teams and committee as the federal specialized anti-corruption authorities: legal regulation and raise of their efficiency

The author of the article describes legal regulation of anticorruption activities performed by the Presidium of the Russian Federation President"s Council and support facilities (teams and committees) from the point of view of criminology. The author also describes and analyzes specific features of their activity and proposes his own ways to improve it. One of such ways to raise efficiency of the Presidium of the Russian Federation President"s Council in the sphere of corruption is to bring this provision into compliance with the current federal laws about state service and corruption. In order to raise efficiency of activities performed by support facilities (teams and committees) it is necessary to establish certain legal provisions that would fix the purposes and tasks of their activity as well as unified requirements for the personnel and etc.

Key words: corruption, fight against corruption, committee, presidium, council, conflict of interests, state service, state officer, working team.

Anti-corruption is a complex, consistent, multi-level and multi-aspect activity of public authorities, bodies local government, civil society institutions and the entire population. To implement this function of modern Russian state reliable tools and mechanisms for combating corruption are being developed and specialized federal, regional, departmental and municipal anti-corruption bodies are being created. Among the anti-corruption bodies, a special place is occupied by the Council under the President of the Russian Federation on Combating Corruption (hereinafter referred to as the council. - Author's note - P.K.), whose powers include solving the following tasks: a) preparing proposals to the President of the Russian Federation regarding the development and implementation public policy in the field of anti-corruption (formation of state anti-corruption policy); b) coordination of the activities of federal executive authorities, executive authorities of constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local governments municipalities on the implementation of state policy in the field of anti-corruption (coordination of anti-corruption activities); c) control over the implementation of measures provided for by the National Anti-Corruption Plan (control over the implementation of anti-corruption policy)<1>. The Council is headed by the President of the Russian Federation, and he also forms its composition to solve the main tasks. The size of the council changed several times, but at the beginning of October 2012 its number was 29 people<2>.

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To ensure the solution of the tasks assigned to the council, a permanent body was created under it - the presidium of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Combating Corruption (hereinafter referred to as the presidium. - Author's note - P.K.) with specialized competence and several functions. The main functions of the presidium can be divided into two groups: a) technical support activities of the Council (formation of the agenda for Council meetings and the creation of working groups (commissions) on some of the most complex and important issues implementation of state policy in the field of anti-corruption); b) functional support for the effective activities of the council (consideration of issues related to the implementation of the decisions of the Council and the execution of the powers of the commission for compliance with requirements for official behavior and resolution of conflicts of interest in relation to a certain category of government officials). It goes without saying that these functions of the Presidium are interconnected and interdependent. At the beginning of October 2012, the Presidium of the Council included 17 people - all representatives of federal government bodies.

Turning to the analysis of the work of the presidium, judging by the available information posted on the Council’s website and individual publications in the media, it should be noted that this body met relatively often, usually once a month, to consider current issues. Judging by official data, from June 24, 2010 to October 1, 2012, the Presidium of the Council met 17 times (according to unofficial data, about 30 times. - Author's note - P.K.), as a rule, to consider current issues related to the implementation of activities provided for by the National Anti-Corruption Plan. At the same time, only twice at a meeting of the Presidium of the Council were materials related to the exercise of the powers of the commission on compliance with the requirements for official conduct of federal civil servants and the resolution of conflicts of interest (September 28, 2010 and May 24, 2011) considered. It is possible that in the future the practice of using the presidium of the council as a body for complying with the requirements for official conduct of federal civil servants and resolving conflicts of interest will be expanded. However, here the contradictions become obvious between the decree of the President of the Russian Federation regulating the activities of the Presidium as a body for compliance with the requirements for official conduct of civil servants and the settlement of conflicts of interest, and the provisions of federal legislation on state civil service and on combating corruption. In particular, the provisions of paragraph 6 of Art. 19 of the Federal Law "On State Civil Service in the Russian Federation"<3>, providing for requirements for the personnel of the body that considers received materials about non-compliance by state civil servants with requirements for official conduct and the resolution of conflicts of interest. This norm directly states that the number of independent experts must be at least one quarter of the total number of members of the body considering the relevant materials. This provision of the legislation on public service is fully compatible with the principle of federal anti-corruption legislation provided for in paragraph 7 of Art. 3 of the Federal Law "On Combating Corruption" - cooperation between the state and civil society institutions in combating corruption<4>.

<3> the federal law dated July 27, 2004 N 79-FZ “On the State Civil Service in the Russian Federation” // SZ RF. 2004. N 31. Art. 3215.
<4>Federal Law of December 25, 2008 N 273-FZ “On Combating Corruption” // SZ RF. 2008. N 52 (part 1). Art. 6228.

In our opinion, there are two ways to resolve this contradiction. One is aimed at preserving this function for the presidium of the Council, but for this it is necessary to introduce into its composition competent representatives of the expert community who are members of the Council (A.G. Kucherena, G.P. Okorokova, V.N. Rudenko, T.Ya. Khabrieva , L.I. Yakobson). Another way involves the creation of a Commission to comply with the requirements for official conduct of federal civil servants and resolve conflicts of interest for a certain category of officials. This commission can carry out its activities either under the President of the Russian Federation, or under the Council, or under the Presidium of the Council. In our opinion, the second path is preferable, since it will be more consistent with both the legislation on the state civil service and the federal anti-corruption legislation.

It should be noted that one of the main functions of the Presidium - the formation of the agenda for the Council meeting - is purely technical and is not of particular scientific or practical interest. This is due to the fact that meetings of the Council since its formation were held only 5 times (September 30, 2008, March 10, 2009, April 6, 2010, January 13, 2011, March 14, 2012) and the specifics of the formation of the agenda is determined by the regulations for holding such meetings on other issues. At the same time, the creation by the presidium of working groups (commissions) on certain issues of its activities may cause some interest in organizing the work of both regional and municipal specialized anti-corruption bodies with similar competence for their level. This is due to the fact that at the level of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, the process of creating similar working bodies that ensure the work of anti-corruption councils under the heads of regions is still ongoing<5>.

<5>Decree of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan dated June 2, 2012 N UP-415 "On the Republican expert group on anti-corruption issues" // Collection of resolutions and orders of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan and normative acts of republican executive authorities. 2012. N 43. Art. 1457; order of the Committee on youth policy and interaction with public organizations of the government of St. Petersburg dated June 29, 2012 N 40-r “On approval of the composition of the working group.” The document is in the personal archive of the author.

As stated in the regulatory legal act itself regulating the activities of the Presidium of the Council, in order to solve the tasks assigned to it, it can create working groups (commissions) on certain issues from various categories of the population. Working groups and commissions may include: a) council members; b) representatives government agencies; c) representatives of public associations and organizations; d) experts; e) scientists; e) specialists.

At the beginning of October 2012, two working groups and one commission were created under the Presidium of the Council. The first working body of the presidium was the working group created by its decision of April 6, 2010 on interaction with civil society structures, chaired by a member of the Council and the Presidium of the Council, Minister of Justice of Russia A.V. Konovalov numbering 35 people. The purpose of creating this commission is obvious - to develop proposals to the Presidium of the Council and the Council to ensure interaction between bodies public authority with civil society institutions in the field of anti-corruption.

The structure of this working group is of interest, which included two members of the Council from both federal government bodies (A.V. Konovalov) and civil society institutions (A.G. Kucherena), 9 representatives of government bodies, 12 representatives public organizations and associations, 12 scientists, specialists and experts. The last group is very difficult to divide into the categories proposed in the normative legal act (specialists, experts, scientists). However, it is already obvious that the quantitative advantage in the activities of the working group belongs to representatives of public associations (organizations), qualified specialists (scientists, experts) and only about 30% of the members of the working group are government employees. The meeting of the working group and the issues discussed at them are mentioned only twice on the website of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation (meetings on March 22, 2011 and September 29, 2011). At the same time, it should be noted that meetings of the working group are held regularly - once a quarter according to a work schedule approved by the group leader and agreed upon with all participants in the upcoming meetings.

Somewhat later than the working group of the Presidium on interaction with civil society structures, in July 2010, by order of the President of Russia, a Commission was created under the Presidium of the Council to coordinate the activities of federal executive bodies and other government bodies for the implementation of international treaties of the Russian Federation in the field of anti-corruption (hereinafter referred to as - commission - Author's note - P.K.) <6>.

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The main goal of the commission’s activities was to increase the efficiency of coordination of the activities of federal executive authorities and other government bodies in the implementation of international treaties of the Russian Federation in the field of combating corruption. The main objectives were formulated as follows:

A) preparation of proposals to the Presidium of the Council on measures to implement the international obligations of the Russian Federation in the field of combating corruption;

b) participation in the preparation of proposals:

• on holding consultations with the relevant authorities of foreign states, international organizations or other entities in order to prepare draft international treaties in the field of anti-corruption;
• on the conclusion of international treaties in the field of anti-corruption or on accession to such international treaties;
• on joining international anti-corruption initiatives;

V) interaction in accordance with the established procedure with the coordinating role of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

• with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime- in order to ensure the implementation by the Russian Federation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption, the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols supplementing it, and the implementation of other activities related to these Conventions and Protocols;
• with the Group of States against Corruption- in order to ensure the implementation by the Russian Federation of the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption;
• with the Working Group of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on the issue of bribery in international commercial transactions - in order to ensure the implementation by the Russian Federation of the Convention against Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Commercial Transactions;
• With international organizations, their bodies and (or) divisions, as well as with the relevant bodies of foreign states - in order to ensure the implementation of the international obligations of the Russian Federation in the field of anti-corruption, the implementation of other anti-corruption measures;

d) coordination, within its competence, of candidates for leaders and members of Russian delegations formed to participate in international events on anti-corruption issues, as well as draft instructions to such delegations;

e) exercising, within its competence, control over the implementation by federal executive bodies and other government bodies national plan anti-corruption measures for the relevant period.

Unfortunately, the personal composition of the commission and its regulations were not officially published. In accordance with the official documents regulating the activities of this commission, only one thing is known - its leader is S.N. Dubovik, Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation<7>.

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During the existence of the commission from September 23, 2010 to October 2012, judging by the official website of the council, it met 5 times (September 23, 2010, November 15, 2010, August 25, 2011, 25 November 2011, April 24, 2012) and discussed issues of interaction with international organizations in the field of anti-corruption.

By decision of the Presidium of the Council dated October 4, 2011 No. 28, at the end of 2011, a working group of the Presidium was created on issues of joint participation in anti-corruption of representatives of the business community and government bodies, headed by Council member E.S. Nabiullina. The purpose of creating a working group is quite obvious - interaction between representatives of the business community and representatives of government authorities to develop joint measures to ensure interaction in the field of anti-corruption and present them to the Presidium of the Council.

The personal composition of the working group on joint participation in anti-corruption of representatives of the business community and government bodies was approved by its leader in early December 2011.<8>. The formed working group included 8 representatives of the business community and 10 representatives of government bodies, and subsequently, in March 2012, two more government representatives were included in its composition - deputies State Duma Federal Assembly RF V.V. Klimov and I.A. Yarovaya<9>. Subsequently, due to personnel changes in government bodies, the personal composition of the working group changed. It was headed by a new member of the Council, the Minister of the Ministry economic development Russia A.R. Belousov<10>. Contrary to the provisions on regulating the activities of working groups of the Council Presidium, this group did not include a single representative of the expert community (scientists, specialists, experts). This may be due to the fact that for group leaders the requirements of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation on this issue are advisory and not mandatory. Although, in accordance with the provisions of the same Decree, this working group currently has two members current council(A.R. Belousov and I.A. Yarovaya). Of course, to improve the efficiency of this working group, it is necessary to include representatives of the expert community in its composition. Firstly, this will lead to the fact that its composition will comply with the provisions on regulating the composition of the working groups of the presidium, and secondly, it will additionally ensure the implementation of the principle of interaction between the state and civil society institutions in the field of combating corruption.

<8>Order of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation of December 2, 2011 N 699 “On approval of the personal composition of the working group on joint participation in anti-corruption of representatives of the business community and government bodies” // Official website of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.
<9>Order of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation dated March 26, 2012 N 153 “On introducing changes to the personnel of the working group on joint participation in anti-corruption of representatives of the business community and government bodies, approved by Order of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia dated December 2, 2011 N 699 " // Official website of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.
<10>Order of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation dated August 24, 2012 N 525 “On introducing changes to the personnel of the working group on joint participation in anti-corruption of representatives of the business community and government bodies, approved by the Order of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia dated December 2, 2011.” // Official website of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.

Judging by the materials of the official website of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, the working group met three times, but it was not possible to establish what issues it considered at each of these meetings. The website contains only an overview of the issues discussed at its third meeting.

Our analysis of the legal regulation of the activities of auxiliary working bodies of the Presidium of the Council allows us to draw some conclusions.

Firstly, a unified procedural procedure for the creation and functioning of working groups and commissions of the Council Presidium has not been defined. In some cases, they are created by orders of the President of the Russian Federation of a regulatory nature, in others - by decisions of the Presidium of the Council, signed by the chairman - the Head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, however, in all cases, their personal composition is approved by the heads of working groups, including by their own departmental legal act.

Secondly, heterogeneous legal regulation of the organization of activities of auxiliary working bodies of the Presidium of the Council. For example, there are no normative legal acts regulating the activities of working groups that define them legal status, goals and objectives, composition, requirements for members of these groups, their rights and responsibilities, grounds for inclusion in and withdrawal from it and other issues. At the same time, the most important areas of the commission’s activities are relatively fully described in the presidential regulatory legal act we examined.

Third, the results of meetings of the auxiliary working bodies of the Council Presidium are covered differently in the media - in some cases, information about the meetings is posted on the Council website (commission meetings), in others - selectively on the official websites of federal government bodies, whose leaders head these auxiliary working bodies .

Fourthly, The formation of the personnel of the auxiliary working bodies of the Presidium of the Council occurs differently. In some cases, the qualitative personnel of these bodies is formed in accordance with the provisions on them enshrined in the legal acts of the President of Russia (working group on interaction with civil society structures), in others - at the discretion of the head of the auxiliary working body with partial implementation of these normative legal acts ( working group on joint participation in anti-corruption of representatives of the business community and government bodies).

Fifthly, Information on the personnel of the auxiliary working bodies of the Council Presidium is placed in different ways. In some cases, information about them is freely available (working group on joint participation in anti-corruption of representatives of the business community and government bodies), in others information about their personal composition is limited and is not posted in mass communications (commission and working group on interaction with civil society structures).

To resolve the obvious contradictions that we have identified in the legal regulation of the formation and activities of auxiliary working bodies of the Presidium of the Presidential Council for Anti-Corruption, it is necessary to establish a unified procedure for their formation and legal regulation of activities, as well as coverage in the media of mass communications.

In our opinion, the legal regulation of the activities of the auxiliary working bodies of the Presidium of the Council of groups (commissions), determining their legal status, goals and objectives, composition, requirements for members of working groups, their rights and obligations, grounds for inclusion in and removal from it must be carried out personally Chairman of the Presidium of the Council, for these purposes issuing orders of the Head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, which must be posted on the Council’s website along with the personal composition of working groups and commissions. Of course, the materials of the results of working group meetings should not be posted in full on the Council’s website, but should be limited to only a brief annual report on the work done.

Summarizing our analysis of the issues of legal regulation and the activities of the Presidium of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Combating Corruption and the working bodies (groups and commissions) it forms, we come to the conclusion that the legal regulation of the activities of these anti-corruption bodies, as well as their activities, needs further improvement. At the same time, the ideas and proposals we have expressed to improve the situation in this area, although controversial, require additional scientific research, but even now they can serve as a guide for future changes in legal regulation and organization of their activities.

Bibliography:

1. Federal Law of July 27, 2004 N 79-FZ "On the State Civil Service in the Russian Federation" (as amended on November 21, 2011 N 329-FZ and amended on November 22, 2011 N 25-P) // NW RF. 2004. N 31. Art. 3215.
2. Federal Law of December 25, 2008 N 273-FZ “On Combating Corruption” (as amended on November 21, 2011 N 329-FZ) // SZ RF. 2008. N 52 (part I). Art. 6228.
3. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 19, 2008 N 815 “On measures to combat corruption” (as amended on July 28, 2012 N 1060) // SZ RF. 2008. N 21. Art. 2429.
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It is created to organize the work of the Council of the Republic. Presidium of the Council of the Republic is a permanent body reporting to the Council of the Republic. The Presidium of the Council of the Republic includes the Chairman of the Council of the Republic, his deputy and the chairmen of the standing commissions of the Council of the Republic. The Presidium of the Council of the Republic is headed by the Chairman of the Council of the Republic.

The Presidium of the Council of the Republic carries out three functions. To the first of these include the organizational powers of the Presidium in connection with the convening and holding of a session of the Council of the Republic. Thus, the Presidium organizes the work on preparing a session of the Council of the Republic, makes decisions on submitting a draft agenda and projects to supplement the agenda of a session of the Council of the Republic for consideration by the Council of the Republic, determines the date of the next meeting of the Council of the Republic, informs members of the Council of the Republic about issues that are expected to be considered on next meeting Council of the Republic, and also resolves other issues.

Second function The Presidium of the Council of the Republic is associated with coordinating the activities of permanent and temporary commissions and other bodies of the Council of the Republic. The Presidium hears reports on the work of standing commissions and other bodies of the Council of the Republic, gives instructions to standing commissions and other bodies of the Council of the Republic, and carries out other functions.

Another feature The Presidium of the Council of the Republic is aimed at assisting members of the Council of the Republic in the exercise of their powers. This concerns control over the timely consideration of requests from members of the Council of the Republic, expressed at sessions of the Council of the Republic, to the Prime Minister, members of the Government of the Republic of Belarus, heads of state bodies formed or elected by Parliament; making decisions on sending members of the Council of the Republic, employees of the Secretariat of the Council of the Republic on foreign business trips and approving reports on them.

The Presidium of the Council of the Republic carries out its activities in the form of meetings. Meetings of the Presidium of the Council of the Republic are convened as necessary and chaired by the Chairman of the Council of the Republic, and in his absence - by the Deputy Chairman of the Council of the Republic. A meeting of the Presidium of the Council of the Republic may be convened at the request of at least one third of the members of the Presidium of the Council of the Republic. A meeting of the Presidium of the Council of the Republic is valid provided that at least two-thirds of the full composition of the Presidium of the Council of the Republic is present. Decisions of the Presidium of the Council of the Republic are adopted by a majority vote of the full composition of the Presidium of the Council of the Republic and are formalized by resolutions.