21.04.09

Yuri Chaika, Prosecutor General of the RF issued a decree on the procedures for coordinating audits of small and medium businesses with the Prosecutor’s office, in accordance to a new law coming into effect on July 1, 2009.

According to Marina Gridneva, an official representative of the Prosecutor-General’s Office, the decree is issued “in order to prepare for implementing the new duties of the Prosecutor’s office to coordinate unscheduled inspections of small and medium businesses by state and municipal authorities.”

The new procedure is established by Federal Law “On Protection of Rights of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs in the Execution of State and Municipal Audits.”

The purpose of the law is to relieve small and medium business from an unreasonably high number of inspections by various authorities. The idea was born a year ago in a panel session of the State Council in Tobolsk, while discussing measures for supporting small and medium business. Dmitry Medvedev suggested prohibiting unsanctioned audits during a speech.

According to Gridneva, the decree signed by Yuri Chaika “regulates the procedures of coordinating audit schedules with the Prosecutor’s office and establishes the approval structure of audits for prosecutors of constituent entities, cities, districts and other territorial entities. It will simplify procedure for obtaining a relevant prosecutor’s decision, and also for appealing it to a higher prosecutor or court.”

In order to implement the new functions, the Prosecutor-General’s Office has started a program of organizational measures, including design of the necessary software and development of new statistical reporting. “Moreover, in accordance with the law, starting in 2010 prosecution agencies will carry out functions of creating a consolidated master plan of scheduled audits”, explained Gridneva.

The State Prosecutor’s Office added that new functions incumbent upon the prosecutors will become an effective measure for protecting entrepreneurs’’ constitutional rights and freedoms, and will remove the excessive administrative pressure often applied to them.

This procedure of receiving mandatory approval from the Prosecutor’s office for unscheduled field audits and verdict forms, approving or denying audits, sanctioned by the Prosecutor General’s decree, will come into effect on July 1, 2009.

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