Problems of efficiency of public law regulation of public-private partnership in the regions of the Russian Federation

Abstract

The article is devoted to the comparative analysis of public and legal management of the public–private partnership in the RF subjects.

The aim of the research is to assess effectiveness of the public and legal regulation at the regional level. Its tasks include a comparative-contrastive analysis of the norms of regional investment and budget legislation; legislation on public-private partnership; revealing methodology of assessing its projects selection and implementation effectiveness; providing information transparence. Methodology of the research is based on the system, structural, functional, comparative-contrastive analysis, on the content-analysis of information downloaded on the official websites of the RF subjects’ bodies of public administration, and its statistical summing up.

The article proved the author’s hypothesis about a declarative nature of some PPP statutes, the absence of their system interconnection with investment and budget legislation and legislation on strategic planning in regions; assessed the level of PPP information transparence in regions of Russia and offered a related index.

The article concludes giving proposals on codification (or consolidation) of investment legislation and some acts on private partnership, on making amendments in the regional PPP laws that provide a coordination mechanism of the PPP projects and documents of strategic planning of the RF subjects; it proposes providing a system interconnection of PPP projects development, budget process and strategic planning at the regional level; it also proposes including a provision on the access to information into Federal and regional legislation and additions to the RF subjects’ laws on public-private partnership.