Ministry of Economic Development proposes to prohibit the choice of foreign software for public procurement, if there is its domestic equivalent
The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade did not approve the Leonid Levin bill on restrictions on public procurement of foreign software. The ministry is preparing its own, more “tough” version of the bill. In his opinion, it is necessary to prohibit the purchase of foreign software when there is a domestic equivalent. The position of the department is reduced to minimizing the possibility of choosing a foreign product in public procurement. May 22 will be the first reading of the bill.
However, representatives of the ministry agree with the idea of dividing the domestic software into categories.
Director of the Internet Initiatives Development Foundation ( IIDF ), Kirill Varlamov, believes that the existing bill provides "government agencies with an opportunity to maneuver." This can lead to the abuse of foreign software when choosing between domestic and foreign products.
One of the authors of the bill, Leonid Levin, in an interview with Izvestia, noted that it was necessary to first check the “soft” version of the bill and not cut it off the shoulder.
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German Klimenko, Chairman of the Board of the Institute for the Development of the Internet ( IRI ), proposes to adopt the bill as soon as possible: “There may be a lot of comments to it, but this is better than nothing, explained Klimenko.” He also noted that Microsoft , for example, thanks to Russian public procurement, receives more than a billion dollars a year.
Deputy Head of the Information Technology Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service ( FAS ), Alexey Lukatsky, considered it necessary to finalize the procedure for removing software from the registry.
In April, "Megamind" wrote that State Duma Deputy Ilya Kostunov called illegal the participation of Russian IT companies with foreign founders in import substitution. “The control over foreign founders outweighs the positive experience of previous cooperation,” he explained. The Ministry of Communications then did not agree with its position.
The draft law on import substitution of foreign software states that when purchasing software, the state customer must establish “a restriction on the purchase of software and information products of computer technology, information about which is entered in the register of domestic software, or justify in the procurement documentation the impossibility or inexpediency of such a restriction”.
In addition, according to the bill, domestic software can be recognized if it is controlled by a foreign person less than 50%. It must be sold freely, and information about it should not be a state secret.
However, representatives of the ministry agree with the idea of dividing the domestic software into categories.
Director of the Internet Initiatives Development Foundation ( IIDF ), Kirill Varlamov, believes that the existing bill provides "government agencies with an opportunity to maneuver." This can lead to the abuse of foreign software when choosing between domestic and foreign products.
One of the authors of the bill, Leonid Levin, in an interview with Izvestia, noted that it was necessary to first check the “soft” version of the bill and not cut it off the shoulder.
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German Klimenko, Chairman of the Board of the Institute for the Development of the Internet ( IRI ), proposes to adopt the bill as soon as possible: “There may be a lot of comments to it, but this is better than nothing, explained Klimenko.” He also noted that Microsoft , for example, thanks to Russian public procurement, receives more than a billion dollars a year.
Deputy Head of the Information Technology Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service ( FAS ), Alexey Lukatsky, considered it necessary to finalize the procedure for removing software from the registry.
In April, "Megamind" wrote that State Duma Deputy Ilya Kostunov called illegal the participation of Russian IT companies with foreign founders in import substitution. “The control over foreign founders outweighs the positive experience of previous cooperation,” he explained. The Ministry of Communications then did not agree with its position.
The draft law on import substitution of foreign software states that when purchasing software, the state customer must establish “a restriction on the purchase of software and information products of computer technology, information about which is entered in the register of domestic software, or justify in the procurement documentation the impossibility or inexpediency of such a restriction”.
In addition, according to the bill, domestic software can be recognized if it is controlled by a foreign person less than 50%. It must be sold freely, and information about it should not be a state secret.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/290596/
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