The agenda includes medical assistance for residents of the Kursk and Belgorod regions staying in other regions; funding for updating the ambulance fleet in the Komi Republic; and the National Plan for the Development of Competition until 2030.
Mikhail Mishustin’s opening remarks
Alexander Novak’s report on the National Plan for the Development of Competition until 2030
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Alexander Novak at a meeting with Deputy Prime Ministers on current issues
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Mikhail Mishustin: Good morning, colleagues.
Today we will begin with a very important topic: support for the residents of the Kursk and Belgorod regions.
The Government will allocate over 700 million roubles to provide them with medical care outside their home regions. Many of these residents seek treatment in hospitals and clinics in other Russian regions where they are temporarily residing.
Federal funding will enable medical organisations to provide residents of the Kursk and Belgorod regions with all necessary treatment under the mandatory medical insurance system, without restrictions or difficulties.
The president has emphasised that residents of border regions currently require additional support. It is crucial to ensure that this support is delivered.
Ms Golikova, I would like to ask you, to personally, as you always do, oversee these issues and ensure that citizens have full access to all these opportunities.
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The Government continues to strengthen the healthcare system. Its development level, technical resources, equipment, and transport infrastructure directly impact one of our most important priorities: preserving the population. This is a key goal set by the president.
During our working visits and meetings with regional leaders, we often discuss the needs of medical institutions, including the renewal of ambulance fleet. This is particularly relevant for remote and hard-to-reach areas of the country, as well as regions with harsh climates and long distances.
For example, in the Komi Republic, where the intensive use of such vehicles significantly shortens their service life.
In order to support this region, the Government has allocated an additional quarter of a billion roubles for the purchase of more than 60 specialised domestically produced vehicles equipped with high-tech medical equipment.
All these vehicles are to be purchased by the end of this year and distributed to the areas where they are most needed, including primary care facilities experiencing heavy workloads. They will also support emergency response teams.
This measure will help ensure a faster response to local residents’ requests for emergency medical assistance.
Now, let us move on to the issue of increasing the competitiveness of the domestic economy. Let me remind you that it is a task set by the President.
This subject is a constant focus of attention for the Government. It does not only concern ways to improve the availability of essential goods and services for people and businesses, but also issues of increasing their supply and quality through innovation. Without this, achieving the national goals set by the head of state will be impossible.
The Government has prepared a continuation of the roadmap for improving the competitive environment in the country over the next five years. It includes specific measures in education, healthcare, transport, trade, agriculture, and other sectors; above all measures to combat cartel conspiracy, which will strengthen pricing control in key areas for both suppliers and consumers.
Mr Novak, please elaborate on how the competition development
plan will be implemented.
Alexander Novak at a meeting with Deputy Prime Ministers on current issues
Alexander Novak: Mr Mishuistin, colleagues.
Development of competition is a key factor of the country’s sustainable development.
Fair competition encourages the reduction of costs, growth of productivity and adoption of innovations. And this in turn strengthens Russia’s positions in the world market, makes our economy more sustainable and offers our citizens a wide range of quality goods and services at affordable prices.
This year we will complete implementing the Government-approved National Plan (Roadmap) for the Development of Competition in the Russian Federation for 2021–2025.
Under the plan, all regions are implementing their road maps on competition development. The concept of developing wholesale food markets and the organised trade road map have been endorsed. The BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre has been established.
The interchangeability of medicines has also been ensured, and charges for mobile internet distribution and roaming in Crimea have been abolished.
Given the changing socio-economic conditions and the digital transformation of the economy, we have prepared under your instruction a new five-year National Plan for Competition Development until 2030.
The document takes into account proposals by government authorities, NGOs and business associations and is primarily intended for reaching national goals and tasks set by the President of Russia.
Its key objective is to create an efficient system of competition development at all levels of government.
The main tasks include: lifting of barriers for business, raising the efficiency of public property management, developing financial markets, innovatory and high-technology sectors.
The plan provides for a number of general industry measures and steps to develop antimonopoly legislation, including annual exposure and prosecution of cartels, working out of regional road maps to develop competition for another five-year period, and expansion of cooperation with the BRICS and SCO countries antimonopoly authorities.
A separate set of events is dedicated to the key sectors of the economy. You have enumerated them.
Here we are planning to ensure anti-monopoly regulation of digital platforms to prevent abuses by the monopolists and attain a 100-percent level of digitalisation of appeal procedures, something that will maximally simplify the mechanism of complaining for claimants. We will create a service to select land plots for agriculture and a state website with data on supply and demand for innovative products.
It is also being planned to improve the mortgage loan refinancing procedure and energise exchanges of tourism best practices between regions.
It is expected that the satisfaction of trade market participants will grow by 12 percent by 2030.
The majority of agencies will participate in implementing the new plan, with responsible federal executive agencies involved at the federal level. At the regional level, events will be held as part of regional roadmaps that will also be approved by the regions.
Mr Mishustin, this plan will further promote competition, which will facilitate sustainable economic growth, attainment of a fair price balance, and enhancement of the quality of products and services. We will ensure control over the plan’s implementation.
Mikhail Mishustin: Thank you, Mr Novak. It is quite important that all planned events be implemented in due time. The development of this country and its economy, including such important sectors as medicine and social affairs, is largely dependent on this.
Please keep these issues under your personal control.
