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July 11 2003

In connection with the implementation of tasks in the first stage of reforming the state service of the Russian Federation, the interdepartmental group on preparing projects for a program of reforming the state service of the Russian Federation, federal laws and other normative acts on state service, by a decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated 11 July 2003, N351-pr, has been renamed the interdepartmental work group on organising measures connected with reforming the state service of the Russian Federation. Its staff has been partially changed.

June 25 2003

The inter-agency working group on drafting a civil service reform programme, federal laws and other rules and regulations regarding civil service held a meeting.

The meeting examined the following questions: results of work since the last meeting, the draft federal law on municipal service, the draft federal law on state pensions for civil servants and their families and the financial and economic resources that would be needed by state bodies to carry out the provisions of the federal civil service reform programme for 2003-2005.

The meeting instructed the Economic Development and Trade Ministry and the Government Institute for Legislation and Comparative Law to work together with other interested parties on drafting within the allotted deadline a single draft law on municipal service in Russia.

The Labour Ministry and the Economic Development and Trade Ministry have been asked to prepare a final version of the draft federal law on state pensions for civil servants and their families, including a description of the economic model for its financing, for the inter-agency working group’s next meeting.

The meeting approved plans by state bodies for implementing the civil service reform programme for 2003-2005. The state bodies will organise tenders and include on the tender committees representatives of the Presidential Affairs Department.

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"The Russian bureaucracy today still has enormous power. But the quantity of power it has does not correspond to the quality. I must stress that to a large degree, this power has its source in nothing more than the superfluous functions of state bodies. Also, despite the enormous number of officials, the country has a severe personnel shortage. There is a shortage at all levels and in all structures of power, a shortage of modern managers and effective people. This is the background against which we must carry out the administrative reform that is vital to the country".
Annual Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
May 16, 2003

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