State and municipal unitary enterprises: issues of improving civil legislation
The article is devoted to the analysis of current changes in civil legislation related to the further reform of legal entities in the Russian Federation. The gradual transformation of the economic and political situation requires taking into account the discriminatory impact of state and municipal unitary enterprises on private economic entities. The article analyzes a number of agreements of the World Trade Organization, which in this connection indirectly prohibit the activities of many Russian unitary enterprises. A number of strategies specified in the Federal Law of December 27, 2019 № 485-FZ are considered, including privatization, reorganization and liquidation of these legal entities, which are used to neutralize the impact of such enterprises on competition. An assessment of the possibility of creating new legal entities in this organizational and legal form after 2020 is given. The conclusion is substantiated that the sharp curtailment of the activities of unitary enterprises in the context of the progressive disease COVID-2019, which entailed a serious drop in demand for goods, works and services in all spheres of the economy, is largely premature and requires clarification of the measures taken by the state.