New federal legislation on administrative electronic exchange, which went into effect on October 1st in regard to federal agencies, could radically simplify the exchange between private citizens and Russian administrative bodies. Under the new law, federal officials will no longer be able to request documents or information from private citizens already available in the databases of other federal agencies.
Each year, Russian federal and local government bodies receive up to 81 million applications and requests from citizens, the Ministry for Economic Development calculated, and in their turn these agencies require citizens to provide 560 million documents to process the applications and requests.
In addition to reducing the number of documents requested, the new law guarantees that the applications and requests of private citizens will be answered in no more than 5 days.
The law will become effective for regional and local administration starting July 1, 2012.
National telecommunication operator Rostelecom has led the technical side of the project under the authority of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media.
Source: RIA Novosti / Digit.ru
