Effectiveness of state property management in Russia

This article analyzes one of the most important principles of managing state property - the principle of effective state property management. The author marked the urgent problems of legal regulation in this area, in particular, the presence of duplicate management structures like Federal Property Management Agency and line ministries; redundancy of federal property in terms of the performance of public functions; violation of the fair competition principles in the sectors with a significant participation of the state; the absence of clear federal property management purposes. In conjunction with the above mentioned problems the most important tasks that can improve the efficiency of management of state property are given, and the basic directions of perfection of the mechanism of state property management are suggested. The author has investigated the criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of state property management. As a result, it was concluded that the criteria of using state property should be determined based on the purpose of the corresponding object, i.e. its purpose to provide a specific public functions. The unequal purposes of objects determines the differences in the mechanisms and forms of managing state property. The effectiveness of state property management must be evaluated differentially, based on the results of their specific public functions, which is designed to be provided by an appropriate object. Special attention is paid to ensuring the rule of law in this sphere, an overview of violations of legal requirements identified in the course of auditions is suggested, the measures to create an effective control system for the legality of state property management and using it for its intended purpose are offered.