Information Technologies in Legislative Activity

The Russian Federation has not adopted a law on normative legal acts, in a number of CIS countries similar laws have been in force for almost two decades, and the legal regulation of these relations is constantly being improved. This experience may well be taken into account in domestic studies, including those aimed at scientific support of legislative activity. The last quarter of the century is characterized by digitalization and informatization of the legal system, laws on normative legal acts of the CIS countries can serve as quite good indicators of these processes. They clearly demonstrate the current trends of recording the information capabilities of the Internet, information and reference systems under the law, the use of other computer technologies in legislative process. In a number of countries, there is an experience of active use of electronic document circulation in carrying out examinations, in forecasting the consequences of regulatory legal acts adoption when approving and directing them into a law-making body. The publication of draft normative legal acts on Internet sites and their public discussion using Internet resources is becoming an almost mandatory element of publicity of lawmaking activities. The comparative legal characteristics of the legislation of the CIS countries may well be in demand in the development and discussion of the draft Russian law on normative legal acts.