The city’s legal norms: for Moscow’s development

Moscow has seen notable changes in terms of managing the city economy in recent years. Time has had its impact on the rule-making too. Three years down the line from the first interview for the MMGU Herald the Head of Moscow Government Legal Department gives an account of the changes in the Department’s activities. Digital technologies mainstreaming is reflected in the Department’s work: a new digital system is being introduced to help automate the process of normative legal acts’ coordinated approvals. It will allow to considerably shorten time frames for drafting, verification and approval of legal documents. It will further allow to dramatically cut down the number of legal and technical errors and inaccuracies that the Department specialists have to deal with while working with the incoming documentation. The joint work of the Department and Moscow’s local government agencies is greatly affected by the level of legal competence of those drafting legal acts. It is therefore momentous to note the role of educational programs jointly developed by the Department and Moscow Metropolitan Governance Yury Luzhkov University aimed at upskilling the civil servants whose job it is to draft legal acts.