The State Duma may limit the purchase of foreign software for state-owned companies

Yesterday, at an expanded meeting of the relevant committee of the State Duma, deputies discussed a bill to restrict the procurement of foreign software for state-owned companies. Previously, such a restriction was proposed only for the authorities. The corresponding bill was developed by the Institute for Internet Development (IRI), writes RBC . The document repeats the provisions of the draft government decree, previously developed by the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media.

True, there are differences. So, in the proposal of the Ministry of Communications, only the Federal Law 44 is mentioned, in relation to the procurement of state and municipal bodies. But Iran proposes to change the law 223 FZ, with the expansion of the priority of domestic software and the restriction on the acquisition of foreign software for state-owned companies. If the document is adopted, such state corporations as Gazprom, Rosneft, Rosatom and other large companies will replace foreign software with domestic software.

According to the chairman of the committee on information policy, information technologies and communications, Leonid Levin, the aforementioned draft law will soon be submitted for discussion by the State Duma. At the same time, some State Duma deputies believe that the IRI is not trying to change or supplement the initiative of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media, because the idea belonged to the institute from the very beginning.

Earlier in the Russian Federation, they repeatedly stated the need for import substitution, and now this issue is being considered not only in the application to industrial goods and food, but also in relation to the intellectual sphere - software, technology, etc. The bill proposes three main components of the course on import substitution:
1. Definition of important criteria for domestic software;
2. Drawing up a registry of domestic software;
3. The priority of Russian software for public procurement.
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The important point is that there is no direct ban on state-owned companies for the purchase of foreign software. But when purchasing software abroad, the buyer from the Russian Federation will now have to substantiate his choice in writing.

In the opinion of Yevgenia Vasilenko, Executive Director of the OTP of Otechestvenniy Soft, two thirds of the software currently used in Russia is produced abroad. At the same time, there are domestic analogues of foreign software used in the Russian Federation, and competitive analogues.

According to Kirill Varlamov, director of the Internet Initiatives Development Fund, before the crisis, the software market in Russia was estimated at $ 4 billion.