Authors : Marina A. Mokoseeva, Igor G. Dudko, Gennadiy F. Myakishev and Oleg A. Sidorov
Abstract: This study examines peculiarities of expert review (ekspertiza) of laws and other regulatory legal acts and their drafts in the constituent territories (subjects) of the Russian Federation. It also analyses problems relating to: defining expert review performers, peculiarities of expert review objects, expert review goals and tasks, the quality of expert review and legal regulation of expert review and of the recording of its results. The issue related to carrying out of the anti-corruption expert review and the issue of recording of expert opinion results received special attention. The study discusses experience of normative regulation of expert review of laws and other regulatory legal acts and their drafts using examples of different constituent territories of the Russian Federation. Special attention has been devoted to the practice of expert review of regulatory legal acts in the constituent territories of the Russian Federation. The researchers use different methods of analysis and consolidation of legal material. A comparative legal method has been actively used. The results of research led to a conclusion that the constituent territories of the Russian Federation need further improvement of legislative regulation of exert reviews. It is suggested that the rights of independent experts to receive information on regulatory activity plans of public authorities should be extended that the rights of expert review performers and expert review objects should be detailed; that requirements applicable to independent experts should be higher; and that independent expert�s liability for deliberate preparation of a false expert opinion and for abuse of rights in carrying out expert review should be set out in the legislation.
Marina A. Mokoseeva, Igor G. Dudko, Gennadiy F. Myakishev and Oleg A. Sidorov, 2016. Problems of Legal Regulation of Expert Review of Regulatory Legal Acts and Their Drafts in the Constituent Territories of the Russian Federation. The Social Sciences, 11: 1780-1785.