The role of REGULATORY IMPACT ASSESSMENT in Technical Regulation and Standards Houston, April 2-4, 2014 THE MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Standardization. Key issues 2

“…Reducing of technical barriers to trade …” Development of honest competitiveness of products (services)…» «…Awareness of activities for consumers protection…» «…Enforcement of producing and marketing of innovation and high technologic products» «…Providing energy and resource efficiency…» «…Increasing of the level of safety and quality of products (services) …» TRs, standards and their tasks Reducing of barriers to trade and making the invest climate better ! 3

Ministry of economy development and standards Russian Ministry of economic development Participate in the development and approving of the draft of federal law “On standardization in the Russian Federation and changes in some legal acts” Supporte normative base of Customs Union and Eurazes economic space in the sphere of technical regulation and standardization 4 Make the regulatory impact assessment of drafts of technical regulations of Customs Union (TR CU) and the lists of standards approved by ЕEC for realization of their requirements Provide the cooperation of the EU countries and WTO on standardization issues Modernization and innovation development of the economy

RIA procedure 5 Public ConsultationsAnalysis & Quantitative RIA requires: 1. See and study the problem in detail 2. To hear participants and discuss options 3. Calculate the benefits and costs 4. Forecast and evaluation of the effects

Mandatory requirements to the conduct of business State control (supervision) Tax administration and customs Safety of production processes Technical regulation, conformity assessment The spheres of RIA: МИНЭКОНОМРАЗВИТИЯ РОССИИ 6 Spheres and purpose of the RIA The struggle with the ineffective legislation and search for better solutions

7  Possibility of public discussion and RIA in one web-site  Big number of the participants, taking into account the expert opinion  Public support Regulatory impact assessment (RIA) at REGULATION.GOV.RU Regulatory impact assessment (RIA) at REGULATION.GOV.RU

МИНЭКОНОМРАЗВИТИЯ РОССИИ 8 more than visitors per month registered representative authorities hosted projects of normative acts, of which are are in the process of RIA registered experts REGULATION.GOV.RU today 5 bb

6 Base for RIA of TR CU drafts Decision of ЕEC Council from г. № 48 “…..in addition to the Party’s Decision as the result of interstate agreement of the TR draft might be made the Conclusion on assessment of social economic and financial consequences of the approving of technical regulation…” Russian Government act from г. № 603 «Interaction of Federal bodies with ЕEC» «…making of the assessment of regulatory impact of the drafts of the decisions of the Commission’s Council…» Russian Government Act from г. № 1318 «The rules of making the assessment of regulatory impact of drafts.. decisions of EEC Council by federal bodies…»

Preparing expert opinions by the types of acts 7 a large part of the opinions on the assessment of regulatory impact (35!!! of 40) is negative

Key remarks to the technical regulations on the results of the RIA  Introduction of redundant requirements for the classification and labeling  Introduction of redundant requirements assessment (confirmation) of conformity  Duplication of existing norms and regulations in the projects of technical regulations  Violation of the established order of development of technical regulations  Objection & notes to the list of standards  s 11

Technical regulations of the Customs Union “On safety of buildings and constructions…” 10 Technical regulations The interstate code of rules (ICR) 1.The status of the document (compulsory or voluntary application)? 2.Procedure of development and adoption? 3.Who takes (authority), the participants? The interstate construction norms ( ICN) The interstate standard (IS)

Technical regulations of the Customs Union “On safety of buildings and constructions…” 1 The Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) approves the list of applicable on a mandatory basis ICN Developed in accordance with the same procedure of development of technical regulations (public discussion, RIA and etc.) The Board of the EEC approves the list of implemented on a voluntary basis ICR, IS The Council of the EEC is to approve the procedure of development and approval of the list of documents applied on a mandatory basis. Assessment (RIA): to discuss a new requirements with the professional community; to calculate benefits (costs) and assess the risks of their introduction. The interstate construction norms ( ICN) The interstate code of rules, the interstate standard (ICR),(IS)

Construction industry in Russia 14 5,7 million … people employed in the construction industry today… 6,5 % …the share of the construction industry in the GDP of Russia today 92 place … is occupied by Russia in the Doing Business rating >30000 …adopted normative documents in the sphere of construction

The accepted and current technical regulations 13

Technical regulation and standardization are the key element of growth and development of the economy 16

Thank you for your attention! ZHIVULIN Vadim