Medvedev will cancel almost 5 thousand Soviet acts until February

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a resolution that cancels more than a thousand government acts of the Soviet Union as part of the “regulatory guillotine”. Since February, there will be more than three thousand documents.

At a meeting with Deputy Prime Ministers, Medvedev said that he had already signed a document that canceled 1259 outdated decisions of the RSFSR. “In the near future, another document will be released for almost 3650 acts of the USSR, also a government level,” the prime minister added. Later, Deputy Prime Minister Konstantin Chuychenko specified that the second document will be signed until January 24. Both decrees come into force on February 1, 2020.

The government recommended to abolish more than 20 thousand Soviet acts back in September, said Chuychenko. Medvedev instructed to finish the work until January 2021. Chuychenko noted that now "almost 14 thousand have been analyzed by the Ministry of Justice of Russia." The government plans to submit the remaining documents to Medvedev’s signature until March 2020.

As Medvedev explained, “this was done at the beginning of the year, so as not to delay the abolition of irrelevant and often absurd regulatory rules already in modern conditions, to reduce the administrative burden on entrepreneurs and other persons who are objects of inspections.”

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