Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev held the meeting on 5 February 2014. Here are some of the decisions adopted following it (Resolution DM-P16-8pr of 5 February 2014):
Approving proposals by the federal Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East on the guiding principles for the creation and management of zones of advanced socio-economic development in Russia’s Far East, with due attention to the 5 February deliberations.
Yury Trutnev, Deputy Prime Minister and Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District, shall complete the approval of regulatory acts delegating additional authority to the Ministry in a bid to effectively promote priority development areas on the ground.
Building a network of zones of advanced socio-economic development in Russia’s Far East, recognising the need to create an integrated institutional system that would incorporate the following agencies:
- Dalny Vostok, an organisation involved in the creation and management of zones of advanced socio-economic development in the Russian Far East;
- Agency for Investment Attraction and Export Support in the Russian Far East, working to advance the Far Eastern Federal District in terms of investment and foreign trade;
- Agency for Human Resource Development, coordinating efforts to provide investors with qualified workforce, including by training and attracting new residents;
- Fund for the Development of the Russian Far East and the Baikal Region, involved in financing infrastructure and projects by residents in advanced socio-economic development zones, with the stock 100% Russian-owned.
The Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East (Alexander Galushka), the Ministry of Economic Development (Alexei Ulyukayev), and the Ministry of Finance (Anton SIluanov) shall develop, in collaboration with federal executive bodies concerned, a federal draft law to regulate issues related to the creation and management of zones of advanced socio-economic development in the Russian Far East, including providing residents with better entrepreneurship and investment conditions, as compared with similar territories in Asia-Pacific Region. The draft shall be submitted for consideration at a meeting with the Prime Minister before 28 February 2014.
The Ministry of Finance (Anton SIluanov) and the Ministry of Economic Development (Alexei Ulyukayev) shall analyse, together with the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and federal executive bodies concerned, this latter Ministry’s proposed target indicators for the Russian Far East’s zones of advanced socio-economic development, including tax rates (privileges), and fuel and transport prices. They shall also provide an outline of financial, economic and other effects that those rates will have if put into effect. The deadline is 28 February 2014.
The Ministry of Finance (Anton Siluanov) shall join efforts with the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East in identifying sources of finance for the creation of zones of advanced socio-economic development and development institutes in the Russian Far East starting in 2014. The deadline is 28 February 2014.
Federal executive bodies shall submit to the Government their innovative proposals on measures to create competitive entrepreneurship and investment conditions for zones of advanced socio-economic development in the Russian Far East, as compared with similar territories in Asia-Pacific Region, including the possibility of exemption from national regulations.
Federal executive bodies responsible for coordinating the activities of agents and co-agents realising the national entrepreneurial initiative roadmaps for improving investor climate in Russia shall prepare, in cooperation with the Strategic Initiatives Agency, their proposals on how to provide the roadmaps with a special section that would lay down target indicators and measures aimed at creating more competitive entrepreneurship and investment conditions for zones of advanced socio-economic development, as compared with similar territories in Asia and the Pacific Rim.
Yury Trutnev, Deputy Prime Minister and presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District, shall prepare a list of economic players holding state-owned stakes and nominated for state registration and the placement of their head offices in the Russian Far East.
Federal executive bodies, state-run companies, and companies with predominantly state-owned stock shall provide the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East with timely assistance in organising work to form a network of territories of advanced socio-economic development in Russia’s Far East.
Recommending to executive bodies in the Russian regions that are part of the Far Eastern Federal District that they should get involved in efforts to form a network of territories of advanced socio-economic development in Russia’s Far East, including in the selection of venues, in providing investment projects with qualified workforce, in creating utilities and social infrastructure, and in engaging regional development institutions.
