The meeting was devoted to the working group activities, organizational issues, and work plan until the end of the 2020. 

During the meeting, Maksim Travnikov, Head of the Division on citizens’ constitutional rights procurement under the RF President, informed the meeting’s participants about the current activities of the Working Group on execution of “Concept of State Migration Policy in the Russian Federation 2019 – 2025”, which was established by the RF President in October 2018.  

The AEB stressed that the improvement of the Russian migration legislation, including migration enrollment procedure, standard procedure for processing work permits,  proportionality in sentencing in migration sphere, etc., has to be achieved with due account of the current practice with participation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of RF and its regional subdivisions on different levels. 

It was agreed that the Working Group on enforcement mechanism of “regulatory guillotine” in the field of migration will be presented by the Business Associations. The work on migration legislation will be divided into two levels/directions. The experts of the business associations will elaborate the proposals and meet on regular (monthly) basis. Then representatives of Associations` management, informed by experts, will present the position of the Group at the RF Government on quarterly basis.