Fano can get the right to classify the development of Russian scientists – Kommersant

Federal Agency research organizations (Fano) asked the president the right to refer to the state secret scientific developments of the entrusted agency institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as attached to it of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and the Russian Academy of Agricultural, reported in the draft of the decree on the portal of draft legislation.

Fano requests to make it into the list of organizations that have the right to dispose of sensitive information. For the first time a list of such information and departments was identified in 1995 and repeatedly extended. Head Fano, according to the project agencies should be included in the list of officials authorized to classify information at the disposal of their departments, and bearing personal responsibility for the recognition of their secret, it follows from the law on state secrets. As the President’s draft decree, Fano intends to classify information about scientific developments in the military sphere. In particular, we are talking about the results of works on creation and modernization of arms, for information about the earlier work in the field of weapons of mass destruction, information about performance state defense order, the achievements of science and technology in military, dual-use technologies, expenditure on research and development by creating weapons. Also Fano able to rank as state secrets and forecasts of scientific and technological progress in areas decisive defense of the State, information about the foreign policy and Russia’s foreign trade and data on the achievements of science, “which can be used in the creation of innovative products, production processes in various industries economy. »

The reason for the development of the project was originated many subordinate Fano organizations a problem getting a license to work with information constituting a state secret.

A leading researcher at the Institute of applied physics, Russian Academy of Sciences Vyacheslav Vdovin fears that the decision on the award of the neck may be incompetent if they will accept the agency. He also notes the need for additional financing. “And in the explanatory note says that the changes do not require additional investments. But I have to also hire special people! To provide their specialized facilities, special office equipment “, -. Says Mr Vdovin

In the case of a decree changing scientific organizations will be able to” centrally contact the Fano Russia, which ultimately make it easier for subordinated Fano organizations the procedure for obtaining the necessary licenses. ” The new authority will also allow Fano “to ensure the protection of research results in promising high-tech science and technology fields, which in principle can relate to information constituting a state secret,” it said in a memorandum to the draft decree. Now, according to the position of Fano, with no authority to dispose of confidential information, it should still protect state secrets within their competence and coordinate protection in subordinate organizations.