The head of state called for more vigorous law-making efforts to regulate relations between federal, regional and municipal bodies of authority. In the President’s view, a balanced and effective system of functioning of the Russian federal state has been too slow in coming. Poorly regulated and non-transparent federative relations are becoming an obstacle to the country’s economic development and law-making.
The President outlined the new commission’s basic tasks, including subject-specific and detailed analysis of existing normative groundwork on power delimitation; analysis of delimited powers in practice; detailed definition of functions to be performed by federal, regional and municipal bodies of authority; finding discrepancies between numerous treaties and agreements on power delimitation and existing federal legislation; delimiting norm-setting competence in general; reconciling the interests of all levels of authority when drafting not only legislative acts, but also decisions by executive authorities.