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Interview with Anastasia B. Bondarenko, State Secretary, Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation
 
PIIS231243500022070-5-1
Publication type Miscellaneous
Status Published
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Energy Law Forum. Editors. 
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Journal nameEnergy law forum
EditionIssue 3
Pages63-66
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Received06.08.2018
Publication date30.09.2018
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1 — Dear Anastasia Borisovna, in 2018 you became the State Secretary, Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation. We would like to take this opportunity and congratulate you with this appointment and wish you successful and fruitful work. What are the main lines of your activity in this new role? What is the scope of your work now? And what state authorities and organizations you have to interact with?
2 — Thank you, Viktoriya Valeryevna. The lines of activity under my supervision include, first of all, the legislative drafting activities of the Ministry of Energy. Apart from that, the Minister has entrusted me with such tasks as interaction with public organizations, labor issues, including labor market monitoring, liaising with universities, social partnerships in the FEC branches, and corruption combating. My main counterpartiesare the deputies and senators, the members of our parliament. All platforms of the State Duma and the Federation Council hosting the discussions of the issues relevant for the FEC branches, both related to passing the bills and themespecific ones: parliament hearings, parliamentary hours of the Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, committees’ sessions, work of various expert groups and sections, and so on. Of course, my responsibilities include working with the Government of the Russian Federation, departments of the Government Office, the Presidential Administration, and with all federal authorities of the executive power.
3 — Dear Anastasia Borisovna, you are supervising the department for the administrative and legislative drafting work. What are the core lines of activity in these fields? What changes in them would you name as the key ones? What strategic tasks have been set to this department?
4 — Regarding the legislative drafting activities, the Department is responsible for the coordinated work within the Ministry to form a consolidated position regarding the bills, both prepared by the Ministry of Energy itself and submitted for its approval. The Department is also charged with the function to monitor the compliance with the regulatory requirements in the bills’ preparation. A large range of tasks has been also set regarding the issues of the FEC labor market. Undoubtedly, the industry’s companies are free to make any decisions in this field, however, the Ministry has been assigned an essential role in monitoring the situation across all industry branches in general, as well as in supporting our companies in any way possible for the purposes of entering into the branch tariff agreements, consideration of the issues of employee social support, introduction of a new system of independent performance assessment, forming the reference figures for universities (“the branch order”), and in many more other cases. The prevention of corruption offences is the line we are tracking on a daily basis, with checks taking place not only across the Ministry’s state service function, but, within the established limits, across the branch companies as well. Among the key changes, I would name the change of the approach to the legislative drafting activities. While there are such evident factors as sound analysis of a problem (“Is changing of the law necessary?”), sound preparation of the bills by our branch subdivisions (“Does the solution suggested address the issue?”), refinement of the bills’ wording (obtaining of “clean” reports) according to the results of the legal and anticorruption examinations by the legal service of our Ministry, and non-delaying of the deadlines, I want to change the very approach to the process. Particularly, as I see it, the task is to analyze any bill at its “pre-zero” stage to validate the correctness of its goal and turn the opposing stakeholders into neutral parties or supporters. I’ll explain that. It’s not a secret that various authorities have different views of a certain problem. My goal is building such a system of the bill concept refinement that will minimize the controversies between the stakeholder authorities at the stage of the interdepartmental approval of the text.
5 — Dear Anastasia Borisovna, you have been managing the Legal Department of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation for a long time. What were your goals and tasks when you had started working at the Legal Department? Which of them had been achieved? And what are the goals and tasks of the Legal Department now?
6 — Yes, I have been managing the Legal Department for almost 10 years. My team and I had had one goal: building the system of the legal service operation as an integral mechanism of the Ministry of Energy of Russia for exercising its powers (from rule-making to enforcement and remedy). Over those years, I think, I have fully achieved the goal. The lawyers of the Ministry of Energy of Russia are respected both by their peers in the Ministry and other authorities and organizations. I managed to gather, train, and encourage to work for the civil service a remarkable young team of people sharing the same ideas, with each of them ready to help other team members and tackle the most challenging issues. Lawyers are the “lifesaver” in any team, which, in our case, is our Ministry. The goals for the future include the preservation and development of the achievements, which is even more important in the digital transformation era. You have to anticipate any trend, be curious and engaged, and have your heart set on what you are doing.

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