New in legislation on local self-government

On 25th of December 2017, the Law of the Republic of Tatarstan №99-LRT of 23 of December 2017 "On amendments to the Law of the Republic of Tatarstan" On local self-g in the Republic of Tatarstan "came into force.

The list of powers of local self-government bodies to resolve questions of local importance is supplemented by item 44 of the Law of the Republic of Tatarstan dated 28 of July, 2004 №45-LRT "On local self-government in the Republic of Tatarstan" (next the Law of the Republic of Tatarstan № 45-LRT) which allocates powers to local authorities in the sphere of strategic planning, provided for by Federal Law №172-FL of 28th of June 2014 "On strategic planning in the Russian Federation." From point 6 of the above list the adoption and organization of the implementation of plans and programs of the integrated social and economic development of the municipality are excluded.

The list of questions relating to the exclusive competence of the representative body of the municipal formation (part 8 of article 22 of the Law of the Republic of Tatarstan №45-LRT) has been amended. Powers for the adoption of plans and programs for the development of the municipal formation, approval of reports on their implementation are excluded. This list has been supplemented by a new mandate to approve the strategy for the social and economic development of the municipality.

The list of municipal districts and city districts in which the assessment of the regulatory impact of drafts of municipal regulatory legal acts establishing new or changing obligations previously foreseen by municipal regulatory legal acts for subjects of entrepreneurial and investment activity, the examination of municipal regulatory legal acts affecting the implementation of entrepreneurial and investment activity are mandatory, which is pointed in the enclosure to the Law of the Republic of Tatarstan №45 LRT, is related in new editors