Dilemma: The Federation Council is forcing the law on preferences of Russian software, while Western IT companies demand a delay
October 22, "Megamind" wrote that the government apparatus has not yet completed its consideration of the draft Ministry of Communications on the support of Russian software developers. The Federation Council intends to accelerate this process.
In mid-summer, the president signed a law to support domestic programmers. From January 1, 2016, the state customer will have to argue his choice in favor of foreign software, if his Russian counterparts in a specially created registry of domestic software. The law will affect only state bodies. The government had to make a decision regulating the maintenance of the register.
The secretary of the Information Society Development Committee of the Federation Council, Alexander Shepilov, calls the registry of domestic software the main regulatory tool, without it the law will not be enforced.
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Who can benefit from delaying the registry order and postponing the entry into force of the law?
Mr. Shepilov with all his strength hopes that the document will be sent to the Prime Minister for signing no later than the beginning of November. “If this does not happen, we are ready to bring the problem to the level of the chairman of the Federation Council, or personally the chairman of the government, or even the leader of the state,” he warns.
On the other hand, the largest foreign IT companies represented by the Director General of the Association of European Businesses ( AEB ) Frank Schauff are asked to postpone the effective date of the law from January 1 to July 1, 2016. During these six months, the association proposes Russian departments to work out joint criteria for the localization of foreign IT companies in Russia, so that their software can also be included in the Unified Register of Russian software being created.
Mr. Schauff also notes that “European business in the past decade has made significant investments in the Russian Federation and planned to invest in the future,” but now foreign IT companies may suspend investment programs and even withdraw from the Russian market under the conditions of unclear rules of the game, translates his words “ Kommersant.
What is this "fuzziness" of the rules in terms of the AEB? In the case of the Federation Council, it is clear that the incomprehensible sluggishness of the government in preparing the registry can be perceived as a manifestation of vagueness. Everyone has their own idea of ​​fuzziness. It turns out that the AEB is advantageous for the vagueness of the government, which categorically does not suit the Federation Council.
Perhaps AEB does not understand the wording on the prohibition of foreign software for state and municipal needs “in order to protect the domestic market of the Russian Federation, develop the national economy, and support Russian producers”. Maybe it seems to foreign companies that in this formulation and in the entire text of the law there is no abundance of details for which it would be possible to catch on and turn the situation in their favor?
If the Federation Council and AEB deliberately took opposite positions and pull the process in different directions, then let the strongest win.
The desire of foreign companies to preserve the Russian market and the flow of money is understandable and predictable, says Yevgeny Vasilenko, executive director of the Otechestvenniy Soft software product development association.
“It should be noted that foreign IT-companies are involved in sanctions against our enterprises and subjects of the federation. Against this background, they are trying to prevent the support and development of their software industry in Russia. Localize software is not possible, it is not the construction of factories. The opening of foreign product development centers in Russia does not make the software controlled by Russia, ”she reasons.
The head of the Internet Development Institute ( IRI ), German Klimenko, commented on the situation very succinctly: "The usual attempt to bargaining."
The vice-president of Rostelecom, Alexey Basov, commented on the situation with AEB on his Facebook page:
In mid-summer, the president signed a law to support domestic programmers. From January 1, 2016, the state customer will have to argue his choice in favor of foreign software, if his Russian counterparts in a specially created registry of domestic software. The law will affect only state bodies. The government had to make a decision regulating the maintenance of the register.
The secretary of the Information Society Development Committee of the Federation Council, Alexander Shepilov, calls the registry of domestic software the main regulatory tool, without it the law will not be enforced.
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Who can benefit from delaying the registry order and postponing the entry into force of the law?
Mr. Shepilov with all his strength hopes that the document will be sent to the Prime Minister for signing no later than the beginning of November. “If this does not happen, we are ready to bring the problem to the level of the chairman of the Federation Council, or personally the chairman of the government, or even the leader of the state,” he warns.
On the other hand, the largest foreign IT companies represented by the Director General of the Association of European Businesses ( AEB ) Frank Schauff are asked to postpone the effective date of the law from January 1 to July 1, 2016. During these six months, the association proposes Russian departments to work out joint criteria for the localization of foreign IT companies in Russia, so that their software can also be included in the Unified Register of Russian software being created.
Mr. Schauff also notes that “European business in the past decade has made significant investments in the Russian Federation and planned to invest in the future,” but now foreign IT companies may suspend investment programs and even withdraw from the Russian market under the conditions of unclear rules of the game, translates his words “ Kommersant.
What is this "fuzziness" of the rules in terms of the AEB? In the case of the Federation Council, it is clear that the incomprehensible sluggishness of the government in preparing the registry can be perceived as a manifestation of vagueness. Everyone has their own idea of ​​fuzziness. It turns out that the AEB is advantageous for the vagueness of the government, which categorically does not suit the Federation Council.
Perhaps AEB does not understand the wording on the prohibition of foreign software for state and municipal needs “in order to protect the domestic market of the Russian Federation, develop the national economy, and support Russian producers”. Maybe it seems to foreign companies that in this formulation and in the entire text of the law there is no abundance of details for which it would be possible to catch on and turn the situation in their favor?
If the Federation Council and AEB deliberately took opposite positions and pull the process in different directions, then let the strongest win.
The desire of foreign companies to preserve the Russian market and the flow of money is understandable and predictable, says Yevgeny Vasilenko, executive director of the Otechestvenniy Soft software product development association.
“It should be noted that foreign IT-companies are involved in sanctions against our enterprises and subjects of the federation. Against this background, they are trying to prevent the support and development of their software industry in Russia. Localize software is not possible, it is not the construction of factories. The opening of foreign product development centers in Russia does not make the software controlled by Russia, ”she reasons.
The head of the Internet Development Institute ( IRI ), German Klimenko, commented on the situation very succinctly: "The usual attempt to bargaining."
The vice-president of Rostelecom, Alexey Basov, commented on the situation with AEB on his Facebook page:
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/295952/
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