SKOLKOVO Foundation presented a plan for changes in legislation on the digital economy within the same national program. He, in particular, proposes to abandon the excessively strict regulation of big data and Internet Commerce, the latter can also be supported by tax incentives. While proposals in this area are based on hypotheses, it is necessary to provide the possibility of further adjustments to the laws, experts warn.Fund “SKOLKOVO” has developed the concept of legal regulation of relations in the digital economy, “Kommersant” familiar with her the short version. Document April 30, aimed in ANO “Digital economy” and economy. It covers in particular the regulation of personal and big data, financial systems, digital education and healthcare, online trading, transport and other spheres.The document was prepared within the framework of the Federal project “regulation of the digital environment” nutsprogramme the “Digital economy”. The project budget is 1.7 billion roubles, the entire program — more than 1.6 trillion rubles, including 1 trillion rubles from the Federal budget.The concept, in particular, proposes to simplify the consent of citizens to the processing of their data, and indicates that the term “big data” in principle, can not have unambiguous legal definition. Attempts of their regulation contain redundant requirements, it is necessary to develop self-regulation and to create a standard technical processing of such data, says the concept. As reported by “Kommersant” on February 21, informed business criticized the bill of the Ministry of communications, which involved the regulation of big data.The document “SKOLKOVO” also suggests the establishment of a preferential tax regime for subjects of the digital economy, particularly online retailers. Internet Commerce is also not tough to adjust, especially in terms of the marketplace, acting as information mediators, believe the authors.In addition, it is proposed to enshrine in law the concept of “digital learning environment”, to facilitate the obtaining educational licenses for distance learning and to eliminate unnecessary requirements for such training, for example, to the premises. It is also proposed to introduce the concept of “digital health”, which will unite technology in this field, and to create a regulatory framework for unmanned vehicles and aggregators of various types of transportation.The Director of the Department of development and planning of SKOLKOVO Sergey Izraylit through a press-service reported that the working group ANO “Digital economy” approved the document with some comments, after revision, it will again be sent to the Ministry of economy. Ministry of economy participated in the preparation of the concept and commends the work reported there, admitting that, “like any�� another strategic concept document,” common position of the expert and business communities, and yet the concept will be further developed. Deputy General Director of ANO “Digital economy” Dmitry Ter-Stepanov added that a number of provisions of the concept is already being implemented, for example, the use of electronic employment record books and the introduction of the electronic personnel document.The President of the Association of companies of Internet trade Artem Sokolov supports flexible approaches to the regulation of digital Commerce: “to Regulate in the usual way rapidly developing technology is impossible.” Lately there have been many successful examples of self-organization of Internet Commerce, including those developed by the Association of the highest standards of service online stores, he said.The adoption of regulation time, but they are not descended from above, and publicly discussed, said the practice Advisor of information technology of the company “Tomashevskaya and partners” Roman Yankovsky. “Besides, it’s not just the content standards, but in the process of their adoption and revision. Now there is no mechanism for monitoring the implementation of laws, that is, if the law is not working, there is no mechanism to cancel it,” he says. In the digital economy regulation tied to the hypotheses, the expert specifies, that you want to include and tracking their results.Dmitry Shestoperov
