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NATIONAL BUSINESS AGENDA OF BELARUS NATIONAL BUSINESS AGENDA OF BELARUS 2006 – 2007 |
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VI. Access to information and openness of the authorities
The legislative data which controls commercial activity has dozens of thousands of documents. They are taken by hundreds structures of the public management. To implement all the requirements of the legislation, a entrepreneur has to know around 5000 of basic documents. Regulations, directions and instructions which determine important parameters of commercial activity are often inaccessible. They are not published in the press. It is impossible to find them on web-sites or even in specialized periodical editions.
Search the necessary information on implementation requirements of the authorities to the business takes much time. Entrepreneurs are lacking the information on public contracts and tenders, on the regime of commercial activity of state enterprises, and on the possibility of obtaining a credit. It is even harder to obtain any information from abroad. International organizations, transnational corporations conduct competitions on placement productions or concrete orders. Small- and medium-sized business almost does not feel any use from the marketing activity of the authorities. Development of marketing service by business associations and by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry is not stimulated by the tax code.
The integration level of Belarus even in the regional labor system is still very low. As the result the expenses of profit losses are growing. Profitable niches at the Belarusian market are taken by the foreign competitors. Lobbying of some enterprises and sectors is growing. They require taking additional protective measures. As the result of development of new enterprises and sectors our country conserves the old structure of production and employment. Instead of support of perspective commercial projects the budget and administrative resources are spent for unprofitable organizations. There is discrimination of small- and medium-sized business. The production is situated not in the places where it could give an efficient output for shareholders, investors and the state. The regime of secrecy which is used by the state authorities, enterprises and banks facilitates to development of bribery and corruption.
We believe that a good partnership of business and the authorities would appear in legislative form of the next issues:
Ø introduction of a legislative regulation on the obligatory publication of all the standard acts of all the state bodies of different levels on web-sites, in mass media within 2 days after subscription, except documents which are ‛top secret“;
Ø introduction of an obligatory regulation of accommodation of law-projects, decrees, directions and other standard acts with representatives of the business community, associations of entrepreneurs and employers, councils of entrepreneurs;
Ø a free access to the data about state registration of commercial and non-commercial organizations, to the data of taxpayer account number appropriation, to the data of license delivery;
Ø State financial support of sites, issue of specialized bulletins with marketing information, about competitions, tenders and financing small and medium enterprises, organizations and agencies;
Ø introduction of a legislative regulation on publication balances of all the state bodies, including budget implementation if its not a state secret;
Ø introduction of obligatory annual audit of all the state structures and publication the results in mass media (newspapers, journals or web-sites) within 1 month after check termination;
Ø introduction of a legislative regulation on obligations of a joint-stock company management to inform minor shareholders about management deals which might hide their personal interests;
Ø creation and broadcasting of information and analytical radio and TV programs that widely highlight the actual issues of support and development of small and medium entrepreneurs in the republic;
Ø preparation, publication and distribution (with finance support by the state) of statistic and forecast information about development of small and medium entrepreneurship in the Republic of Belarus (bulletins, CDs, reference books; data bases of the main sources of raw materials, energy-carrier, the medium salary, the cost of credit resources and others);
Ø introduction of a regulation on obligatory presentation of information about all public purchases and orders to the citizens and mass media by the state bodies including local executive committees, ministries and departments;
Ø legislative execution of regulation on placement public orders of state enterprises and organizations at small enterprises(not less than 15%)
Ø Simplification of the system of registration of the media in the country, creation of information resources of enterprises and organizations.
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