The Legislative Duma of Tomsk Oblast


XVIII Session of the Tomsk Oblast State Duma has taken place, July 31, 2008

XVIII Session of the Tomsk Oblast State Duma
Members of the parliament held a minute of silence in the memory of Georgiy Kirillovich Zherlov, deputy of the IIIrd and IVth convocations of the State Duma of Tomsk Oblast, director of Scientific Research Institute of Gastroenterology of the Siberian State Medical University, doctor of medical sciences, professor. In the Duma Zherlov headed the public health services commission of the Labour and Social Policy Committee, was engaged in active law making activity. Georgiy Zherlov passed away on July 13, 2008.

Members of the parliament approved the candidate Asaev Omar Nurahmedovich for the post of the chairman of the regional federal specialized institution “Tomsk Oblast State Property Fund”.

The Oblast parliament adopted the Law “On perpetuating the memory of persons having special merits and outstanding achievements before Tomsk Oblast”. The document establishes procedures of appellation of eminent personalities’ names to regional state organizations, objects of state ownership, and procedures of establishment of monuments, memorial boards and other memorial constructions and objects on state ownership facilities of Tomsk Oblast.

In the second reading the deputies adopted amendments to the Law “On limiting sizes of land lots granted to citizens in their property in Tomsk Oblast”. These amendments provide the maximal size of a land lot – up to 10 % of agricultural land in territory of one municipal district. The minimal size is 100 000 square meters.

The deputies introduced amendments to the Program of social and economic development of Tomsk Oblast. The volume of the program financing is increased. Remarks of the deputies regarding the bill on amendments were discussed at sessions of the Economic Policy Committee and the Budgetary and Financial Committee of the Regional Duma, part of them is recommended for introduction. A number of proposals were additionally submitted by the deputies at discussion of the document in the second reading. The deputies suggested to adopt the submitted after the first reading amendments, and to return to a closer edition of the program in the near future, at the following introduction of amendments.

Regional members of the parliament in two readings considered the amendments to the Oblast Law “On procedures of selection of investment projects on objects of capital construction of municipal property and distribution of subsidies from the regional budget for its co-financing”. The bill is developed for the purpose of increasing the share of co-financing from the regional budget from 50 % up to 75 % at financing of capital construction objects in municipalities. Introduction of this amendment is connected with insufficiency of means in local budgets. These amendments also establish uniform rules of carrying out the selection of investment projects of regional and municipal property in view of budgetary and social efficiency.

The Duma allocated a subsidy of 52 million rubles for completion of capital repairs of four schools of Tomsk Oblast and their preparation for the new academic year.

Income of the regional budget has increased by 262 million rubles due to increase in return of the tax on extraction of minerals. The reason is that the rise of oil prices has exceeded the forecast parameters incorporated in calculations at adoption of the regional budget. The expenditure budget will also increase for the same amount.

The total amount of expenses on the investment and innovative activity in 2008 will make 4 billion 898,8 million rubles.

The deputies considered a package of bills on agriculture. In the second reading the amendments were adopted to the regional target program on social development of villages up to the year of 2010 and to the Law on livestock breeding. The amendments to the Oblast Law on turnover of agricultural lands were discussed in the first reading.

The Oblast law “On granting to local authorities of separate state powers on rendering assistance to development of professional sports” was adopted in two readings. The given law provides transfer of state powers to only one municipal formation of the region – to a city district “City of Tomsk”, considering its special status of a regional center and location of the majority of objects and subjects of mass sports in the city territory. Successes of Tomsk sportsmen on Russian and international arena are a long-term “visiting card” of our city. Regional and city authorities are in solidarity that the most effective way is to develop professional sports in indissoluble connection with mass sports.

In the first reading the deputies adopted the bill “On the innovative activity in Tomsk Oblast”. First such law was adopted by the State Duma of Tomsk Oblast in 1999 and was one of the first laws adopted by subjects of the Russian Federation in the given region. In conditions of absence of special legislative regulation of the innovative activity the given Law is still a legal basis of regulation of all processes directed on realization of the innovative policy in Tomsk Oblast.

At the same time, great changes took place in Tomsk Oblast for the last decade. First, the innovative process in the economy has taken an irreversible character which is expressed in constant increase in output of innovative and high-tech production. Basic elements of the infrastructure of innovative system are formed. The special economic zone of technical innovation type is created in territory of Tomsk. Three state universities located in Tomsk became winners of the competition of educational establishments of higher vocational training introducing innovative educational programs.

Adoption of the Law in the new edition is conditioned by the innovative activity which has a complex, interbranch character and it is necessary to define in the Law the degree of participation of Tomsk Oblast authorities in the directed stimulation and regulation of the innovative activity, to establish specific and address measures of state support to the innovative activity.

Amendments are made to the Oblast law “On procedures of definition in Tomsk Oblast of adjoining territories where the retail of alcoholic production with ethyl spirit content of more than 15 percent from the volume of finished goods is prohibited, and sale time restriction”. With coming of these amendments into effect the retail of strong alcohol will be forbidden during cultural-mass and entertainment activities with a mass congestion of citizens in territory of municipal formation during the period of time from 16.00 up to 8.00 of the following day.Boris Maltsev, Speaker of the Tomsk Oblast State Duma

The chairman of the State Duma of Tomsk Oblast Boris Maltsev held a traditional press conference for journalists during the break between sessions.

Answering the question “What is the regional budget losing, offering tax privileges within the limits of the law on the innovative activity”, Boris Maltsev pointed out that these losses are relative:

- The first law “On the innovative activity in Tomsk Oblast” we accepted among the first in the country, in 1999. And the law worked. All these years the volume of the innovative production continuously grew. Only during the last 5 years it has grown 10 times, having reached 6 billion rubles according to the results of 2007. The number of new innovative enterprises is also growing, last year there were only 47 established. Yes, the new bill provides a number of preferences as well. For example, innovative-active enterprises will be granted a partial remission of the income tax and complete remission of the property tax, which are included in the regional budget. However, due to activization of enterprises of the innovative sector the regional budget will be able to receive about 70 million rubles of additional income in the future.




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