The article presents main results of the ordinary (next) round of monitoring the application of law FL-294 held in 2012. The subject of monitoring was practice of the application of the Federal law of 26.12.2008 №294-FL  "On protection of rights of legal persons and individual entrepreneurs at carrying out State supervision and municipal control" in 2012 in comparison with the results of its application  in  the years of 2009-2011. In the course of the study the points of assessing the implementation of the Federal law and its influence on the relationships of the public administration and entrepreneurs in the field of supervision and control of the conformity of goods, works and services in Russia were considered. The aim of this study was also to find the optimal balance between restrictions of administrative interference into entrepreneurs’ activity and provision of the essential protection of interests of the consumers of goods, works and services.

The results of the monitoring the Federal law №294-FL application show that its implementation in 2012 brought about some positive changes in protecting the rights of legal persons and individual entrepreneurs. Positive trends can be seen in a great many aspects of law-application practice and are confirmed by both the data of statistical observation and by other ones of federal bodies of executive power, monitoring data on the official sites of the bodies which execute federal and regional State supervision and control.

As a result of the monitoring were formed recommendations on changing the provisions of the Act and related federal laws and practices.