Prospects for the Development of the Legal Monitoring Institute in the CIS Countries

The article contains a comparative legal study of the legislation of the CIS countries based on the following criteria: the method of normative consolidation of monitoring, its role in the system of legal regulation, types of legal monitoring, intensity of development of legislation in the field of monitoring, institutionalization of monitoring, and the procedure for conducting monitoring. Based on the results of the study, the authors come to the conclusion that the national legal systems of the CIS countries have a common problem of terminological ambiguity in the field of legal monitoring. The legal systems of the CIS countries view the function of legal monitoring differently: in some countries, it is considered in the context of strategic planning mechanisms, in others it is defined as an element of the rule-making process, and yet in others it is understood as a way to improve the effectiveness of legislation. The general trend in the development of the institution of legal monitoring in the CIS countries should be considered the institutionalization of monitoring. Some CIS countries implement a centralized model of organizing legal monitoring, the key element of which is a specialized institution that provides information, methodological and organizational support for activities in the field of legal expertise and legal monitoring. According to the authors, such a model could also be applied in Russia, where functions in the sphere of organizational support for legal monitoring could be assigned to the Scientific Center for Legal Information under the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. The authors also particularly emphasize that legal monitoring could act as an integrating practice in the CIS space.