SKOLKOVO Consumer Market Development Center

Smart regulation

“Smart-regulation” is a set of the leading principles and instruments, designed to help field policy developers in making regulation more transparent and effective in pursuing its final goals.

“Smart regulation” is aimed at legislation optimization by means of regulation quality management throughout the cycle of policy elaboration and implementation; improvement of the whole legislation block by simplification and profit/expenses estimation, including estimation based on impact assessment evaluation and improvement of its implementation. Another objective of «smart regulation» is to lower administrative barriers and costs for business.

Regulation that is more effective is a part of a movement towards more effective public administration. It rests upon a desire to improve quality of public services and necessity to lower state intervention. Strive for laws and regulations quantity reduction (deregulation) was an initial goal of regulatory policy.

Self-regulation of Russian consumer market

Self-regulation project is one of the most relevant and ambitious Center’s projects. In 2017 Andrey Sharonov, the President of the School has headed a public council of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS); subsequently Fas has chosen A. Sharonov as a mediator and the School as a venue for the development of Russian food market self-regulation. Later roundtable discussions regarding self-regulation with participation of business and federal executive authorities’ representatives, including Vice Prime-Minister A. Dvorkovich and FAS head I. Artemyev were held at the School’s venue.

In September 2018, the Consumer Market Development Center became a point of expertise aimed at self-regulation development support. In October 2018 A. Sharonov was appointed to the post of the Chairman of the Commission for the implementation of the Code of good practices (the Commission). In November 2018, the first meeting of CEOs of the largest retail chains and vendors dedicated to the discussion of food market self-regulation outlooks and transformation of the Commission’s activity has been held. The participants of the meeting unanimously confirmed their readiness to develop self-regulation on consumer products market.

Achievement of sustainable development objectives of the Russian consumer market

The project implies development of strategy of localization and achievement of Sustainable Development Objectives adopted by UN in 2015 on the Russian consumer market; and initiation of a process of business and state incorporation in the development of a roadmap of Sustainable development objectives achievement on the Russian consumer market mediated by the Center.

Food security of Russia

At the very stage of organization, the Center has participated in the development of a new version of the Food Security Doctrine of the Russian Federation. A series of expert discussions of analytical survey devoted to the current state of Russian food security prepared by Agrofood policy center of the Institute of applied economic studies RANEPA has been held at the School’s venue. This project was implemented in cooperation with the Council for Foreign and Defense Policies. The Government, Security Council and Russian Ministry of Agriculture have considered proposals prepared at the Center’s venue.

Consumer market infrastructure

The Presidential decree № 204 sets up new primary objectives in the agricultural sector of the Russian Federation. According to the Decree, it is required to achieve the following to 2024:

• To rise products export 2,2-fold to 45 bln USD;
• To develop harmonized country-wide consumption standard and to provide population with secure quality products for a fair price;
• To lay the ground for small and medium enterprises’ development.

Achievement of this set of primary objectives is possible only upon union of key players of transport, agriculture, food and trade industries. Organization of food market infrastructure is a global project of country’s social and economic development uniting all stakeholders in a consolidated manufacturing logic.