The Audit Chamber Spotlight

The term of office of Svetlana Izmestieva as Chairman of the Accounts Chamber expires. She leaves the position November 28. The Committee on Economic Policy, Budget and Finance would recommend this place to the candidacy of her deputy Tatiana Kirova. Another solution of the profile committee, having a direct relation to the control authority of the Supreme Council, is due to the President's initiative. The President proposed a draft basic law governing the activities of the Accounting Chamber. One of the innovations associated with the participation of the President in the formation of this agency. It is expected that the Chairman of the Accounting Chamber, deputy, and auditors will be appointed to the post for five years by the Supreme Council by the president.

The rules of the legislative initiative of the deputy Vadim Krasnoselsky concern control authority of the Supreme Council. The Parliamentarian proposed to enshrine it on the legislative level, the information categories that can not be classified. The list featured emergencies, disasters, environmental condition, health, education, culture, agriculture, crime. Privileges, compensations and benefits. Information about the health status of senior officials, violations of human rights and freedoms, as well as the legitimacy of state power authorities should be open. It is impossible, in the opinion of the author of the law-in-draft, to classify information on tax procedure and, finally, the results of inspections monitoring agencies.

Withholding of data entails, according to the law-in-draft, criminal, civil, administrative or disciplinary responsibility depending on the caused by society, the state and the citizens for material and moral damages. Draft amendments "On state secrets" was recommended to be adopted in the first reading.