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Program Overview

The State Control and Supervision: A New Approach summer school program aims to improve the professional qualifications of persons exercising supervisory and control powers. The program puts a strong emphasis on applied skills training necessary in connection with the reform of supervisory and control activities to use them in practice.

Program Format

The format of the program is a hybrid format, combining a classroom format and a remote format using information and communication technologies. Lectures are accompanied by presentations. The final test is conducted remotely upon completion of the program.

Program Content

The program covers a comprehensive range of topics, which currently include:

• the use of a risk-based approach
• compliance with requirements for the presentation of inspection results
• changes in the regulation of control and supervisory proceedings
• implementation of the guarantees established for controlled persons
• application of the mediation procedure in conflict resolution with the participation of regulatory and supervisory authorities
• effectiveness of prevention of risks of non-compliance with mandatory requirements
• experience in implementing the pre-trial appeal model
• implementation of state control (supervision) and municipal control under the moratorium

Target Audience

The professional development program is aimed at managers, specialists, lawyers of state control (supervision) and municipal control bodies, managers and lawyers of organisations, entrepreneurs and lawyers who protect the interests of businesses in relations with regulatory authorities, scientists and representatives of scientific and educational organisations whose area of interest includes issues in exercising control and supervisory powers and protecting the interests of controlled persons.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the program, students will acquire a broad knowledge of:

• composition and structure of legislation in the field of control and supervisory activities of the state
• current trends in the formation of law enforcement practice, including judicial practice, developing in the field of control and supervisory activities Skills:
  • reasoning for decisions taken in the course of exercising powers in the field of control and supervisory activities
  • analysis and preparation of documents in the implementation of state control (supervision); forecasting the consequences of decisions taken based on the results of control (supervisory), preventive measures
  • registration of the results of control and supervisory activities
  • qualified interpretation of legal acts in their interaction, taking into account the specifics of the type of control
  • application of legal norms regulating public relations in the sphere of control and supervisory activities, including gaps and contradictions between norms; analysis of non-standard situations of law enforcement practice and development of optimal solutions
  • communications with controlled persons
  • interaction with the prosecutor's office

Program Structure

The program structure includes:

• State control and supervision: characteristics of activities related to interference in the freedom of an individual
• Application of a risk-oriented approach in organising control and supervisory activities
• Prevention of violations of mandatory requirements
• Conducting control (supervisory) activities
• Requirements for the execution of inspection results. Procedural consequences of violating the established procedure for conducting and executing inspection results
• Administrative liability of officials for failure to comply with the requirements of legislation on state control (supervision)
• Application of mediation technology in disputes and conflicts with a public element

Program Advantages

The program has several advantages, including:

• Practice: classes are taught by St Petersburg University educators who are renowned experts in the relevant areas of law, members of scientific advisory councils at government agencies, and practitioners with significant experience in the subject matter of the program
• Availability: the program can be implemented remotely
• Interdisciplinary approach: students are introduced to a full range of issues in the field of professional activity "law" and those related to the exercise of powers in the field of control and supervisory activities, including the use of mediation technology in disputes and conflicts with a public element, the use of a risk-oriented approach, and the use of information systems for the purpose of ensuring control and supervisory activities

Program Details

• Type of program: Additional
• Duration: 2 days
• Workload: 18 hours, including 16 contact hours
• Type of study: Full-time
• Document issued: Certificate of St Petersburg University in the standard form
• Tuition fee: 3,000 roubles
• Course schedule: June 2025
• Language: Russian