The expert explained the importance of strengthening control over public associations

The draft law on public associations with state participation, developed by the Ministry of Justice, strengthens control mechanisms to protect federal budget funds that go to their work. Mikhail Polyakov, Associate Professor of the Department of State and Municipal Administration at the State University of Economics and an independent expert on anti-corruption expertise of regulatory legal acts, told Izvestia on May 29.

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According to him, the document is intended to create an adequate regulatory framework for such organizations, ensuring transparency, accountability and efficiency of their functioning.

The source noted that in this case, two factors are taken into account. The first is that associations must exist according to norms that will take into account the specifics of the creation of public-state associations.

"Secondly, it is important to strengthen control mechanisms. This is dictated by the scale of government funding that is provided to these organizations by separate lines of the federal budget. It is very important that such organizations are subject to increased requirements for the targeted use of funds, financial discipline and accountability to society," Polyakov stressed.

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