Experimental legal regimes for digital innovation and a special regulation mechanism: new concepts of russian legislation and first projects

Abstract

The paper examines the new concepts of Russian legislation introduced into the mechanism of legal regulation with the entry into force of the Federal Law “On Experimental Legal Regimes in the field of Digital Innovations in the Russian Federation” and analyzes the first projects approved as part of its implementation. Thus, one of the actively implemented types of regulatory technologies, as shown in the article, is the “regulatory sandboxes”. The establishment of an experimental legal regime within the framework of the functioning of “regulatory sandboxes” means the application to legal entities and individual entrepreneurs of a special, different from the generally established legal regulation (special regulation and general regulation – in the definitions of the law under study). The article analyzes the prerequisites and possible results of the implementation of a flexible system of legal regulation aimed at stimulating the development of technologies and preventing possible negative consequences associated, inter alia, with the use of artificial intelligence. When writing the work, of general scientific methods were used (such as: dialectical, systematic, analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, modeling, observation) and special private scientific methods of cognition (in particular, formal legal). In the course of using this methodology, the authors described in detail the distinctive characteristics and predictively outlined the features of a flexible system of legal regulation aimed at stimulating the development of technologies, as well as drew conclusions about the possibilities arising from the use of the mechanism of “regulatory sandboxes” in modern Russia.