The Workshop Programme

09:30 - 10:10. Registration of participants / coffee-start

10:10 - 10:30. Opening speech

Andrey KLIMENKO – Head of the Institute for Public Administration and Municipal Management, NRU HSE

10:30 - 13:00. 1^st plenary session. Scientific and expert base of smart regulation

Moderator – Andrey Klimenko (NRU HSE)

Charles-Henri MONTIN, Senior Regulatory Policy Adviser in the Ministry of Finance of France, editor of the international blog Smartregualtion.net
“Regulatory Policy: the potential of best practices from OECD countries and around the world” (40 minutes)

Questions / Discussion (20 minutes)

Daniel TSYGANKOV, Head of the RIA Center of NRU HSE
“Promising tools for improving regulatory decisions quality” (30 minutes)

Questions / Discussion (15 minutes)

Oleg SHESTOPEROV, Director General, Information-Consulting Centre “Business Tezaurus” (Moscow)
“Approaches to the rulemaking “limitation” in the field of business regulation, based on RIA tools” (30 min)

Questions / Discussion (15 minutes)

13:00-14:00. Lunch

14:00 - 17:15. 2^nd plenary session. Practical experience in improving regulation of business and investment activities in Russia and the Common Economic Space

Moderator – Charles-Henri Montin (Ministry of Finance of France)

Rustam AKBERDIN, Director of the Department for Promotion of Entrepreneurship of the Eurasian Economic Commission
“Practical regulatory impact analysis in the Eurasian Economic Commission: effective evaluation in the context of information imbalance” (30 minutes)

Questions / Discussion (15 minutes)

Representative of the RIA Department of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

“RIA as a core element of the effective regulatory policy: theory and practice” (30 minutes)

Questions / Discussion (15 minutes)

15:30-15:45. Coffee break

Ivan OSKOLKOV, Head of Economic Department of the State Duma Office of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
“RIA in lawmaking: has the need emerged yet?” (30 minutes)

Questions / Discussion (15 minutes)

Maksim SVETUNKOV, Director of Program Planning and Regulatory Impact Assessment Department of the Ministry of Economy and Planning of the Ulyanovsk region
“Ex-post impact assessment of regulatory legal acts of the Ulyanovsk region providing for budgetary expenses on rendering social support, providing social benefits” (30 minutes)

Questions / Discussion (15 minutes)

17:15-18:00. Panel discussion.

Moderator – Daniel Tsygankov (NRU HSE)

Participants – Charles-Henri Montin (Ministry of Finance of France), Ruslan Kiss (PROVED Guild, St. Petersburg), Tatiana Radchenko (Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation)

Questions:

1. Will RIA in Russia “survive” without a comprehensive regulatory policy?
2. How to unite efforts to improve regulatory decisions quality at supranational, national and subnational levels?
3. How can cooperation with the OECD help to develop smart regulation mechanisms in Russia and other countries of the Common Economic Space?