Before each new year, we talk about the state of regulation in Russia. For the country and the world 2022 was a year of hardship and tragedy. Therefore, even in such a bureaucratic area as control and supervision, there were major changes.
The Russian government tried to respond to the shock of February 2022 by reducing the administrative burden on business. As a result, the number of scheduled and unscheduled inspections fell by half and is at the lowest level since our observations began 12 years ago (355,000 over 11 months).
But inspections were replaced by other preventive measures, 1.6 million of which took place in the country, four times more than inspections.
Russia pays the greatest attention to the sphere of education. Educational organizations accounted for more than 60% of all scheduled inspections, 16.4% - unscheduled, and 13.5% — preventive measures. It can be assumed that this is because schools are an "easy" object of inspection for state bodies.
Since 2016, reformers have been promoting a risk-based approach to audits. The essence of the idea is that all supervised organizations of the country will be divided into hazard classes and inspections will be made first where the risks are highest. For eight years this idea has not found support in the agencies. In practice, in 2022, two-thirds
of all organizations with the highest hazard class were not oil refineries or nuclear power plants but schools and kindergartens,. For Rospotrebnadzor almost all of the high-risk facilities are educational institutions. At the same time Rostrud did not assign any risk category to 88% of the audited organizations.
Next year, we expect an even greater reduction in inspection activities, as the government has excluded schools and preschool organizations from inspection plans. However, they will be replaced by preventive measures. It is not yet clear whether there will be a simple name change and a "spillover" of administrative pressure from inspections to preventive measures.
Read more about this in the text of the analytical report.
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