ASI and FAS suggested to include the indicator ‘Level of competition promotion assistance’ in the KPI of regional authorities
The Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) supported the offer of the FAS Russia to include in the assessment of the effectiveness of the regional authorities activities an additional 25th indicator ‘Level of competition promotion assistance’, taking into account the evaluation of the Standard for the Development of Competition implementation.
This was stated by Svetlana Chupsheva, General Director of ASI, at the meeting of the State Council on the priority areas for the activities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation to promote competition in the country, which was chaired by Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin on April 5.
‘Last year, the decree ‘On Approval of Key Performance Indicators of Governors’ was issued. We offer an assessment of the implementation of the Standard by business associations to include one of the indicators of the governors’ activities. I think that this will be effective,’ the Head of ASI noted.
She emphasized that today the regions independently conduct surveys of business communities and assess the effectiveness of measures to admit them to the markets and increase competitiveness. In this regard, Svetlana Chupsheva suggested by analogy with the National Rating, where this assessment is given by large business associations, to introduce a monitoring system for the Competition Standard.
‘That is, it supposes that it is not about regions to submit their assessments in the FAS and the Ministry of Economic Development, but about business associations to do it directly both at the level of municipalities, and at the regional level to comply with the requirements of this Standard. I believe that here we can move away from a formal approach. And, probably, the regions will be more attentive to this work,’ said General Director of ASI.
Svetlana Chupsheva gave examples of regions where the implementation of the Standard has an informal approach, where governors see this as a priority of their work.
In the sphere of pre-school education, where the share of private kindergartens in the country as a whole is 2%, the regions that stimulate the entry of non-state companies into this market have higher grades – the share of the private sector in the Samara Region is 13%, in the Perm Territory – 8%, in the Tomsk region – 6%.
‘Due to the involvement of the non-state sector for pre-school education, the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug managed to save 1 billion rubles of regional budget funds over the last year,’ Svetlana Chupsheva said.
In accordance with the requirements of the Standard in Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, a mechanism of technological and price audit, investment projects of subjects of natural monopolies was introduced. In 2017, as a result of this audit of investment projects in Tatarstan, the savings exceeded 232 million rubles, which is 34% of the total value of investment projects that were audited. In the Republic of Bashkortostan, the use of the same mechanism allowed to save 138 million rubles and reduce tariffs for technological connection to the electricity grid up to 53%.
‘Thus, the regional Standard for the development of competition works for those who work,’ - concluded Svetlana Chupsheva.
REFERENCE
In 2017, the Central Bank of Russia joined the work on the introduction of the Standard for the Development of Competition in the Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation, which prepared and sent to the Government of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia a report on non-monetary inflation factors and measures to reduce its volatility, one of the mechanisms of which is the implementation of the Standard.
The interdepartmental working group on implementation of the Standard provisions supported the initiative of the Central Bank of Russia on its participation in the implementation of the Standard in each constituent entity of the Russian Federation.
