Russian information and technical reference books on the best available technologies as a subject of scientific research
The presented article describes modern information and technical reference books that exist on the territory of our country on the best available technologies as a subject of scientific interest, as well as a source of methodological recommendations and practical solutions in the field of greening production processes in leading sectors of the Russian economy. An overview of the publications devoted to the analysis of information and technical reference books on the best available technologies, on the history of appearance, general structure and types of information and technical reference books on the best available technologies is given, the drawbacks of the analysis of this problem are indicated. The article focuses on the fact that despite the importance and significance of information and technical reference books on the best available technologies in practice, in the scientific literature their concept, meaning and classification in the scientific literature is not properly covered, which is very difficult to evaluate from a positive point of view. As a result of the analysis, the author focuses on the fact that the current legislation in the considered area needs to be improved. In particular, it is proposed to consolidate the priority of the provisions of vertical"reference books, since this optimizes the search for the most correct and optimal solutions in the presence of any collisions or aspects that are difficult to reconcile with each other in the documents of the sectoral and inter-sectoral levels.