Concerning the independent anticorruption examination of legal acts in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia

Under the provisions of the Federal Law dated 17.07.2009 № 172-ФЗ and the Regulations on the preparation of normative legal acts of federal executive bodies and their state registration, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia as a federal executive body is obliged to carry out an anti-corruption examination of issued legal acts (their projects). The procedure of anti-corruption examination is carried out in the following way: a MIA division, being the head executive body, introduces a project together with a cover letter in electronic format to the authorized regional organization of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia to be posted on the official website of the MIA. The cover letter includes mainly the contact information: postal and email addresses, fax number of the MIA division (for sending expert’s report), telephone number of the official responsible for the development of the project, start and end dates of the reports’ submission, the date of project’s posting on the website. The examination reports should be considered in the MIA agency within 30 days from the date when such a report is received. For each conclusion the agency should give a reasoned response, except those opinions that do not propose to eliminate the violations found. Those theses of the draft, which the independent anticorruption examination recognizes as corruptive, must be removed, after which the draft of the normative act should be re-submitted to the Treaty and Law Department of the MIA of Russia with attachment of the received examination reports.