Legal Experiments: Drivers or Risks?

The session will examine the problem of the sufficient regulation of experimental legal regimes as a tool for increasing the digitalization of the Russian economy, including in strategically important sectors. Above all else, there are concerns about the haphazardness of the legal regulation of various forms of experimental legal regimes and the fragmented nature of acts regulating certain types of experiments, including their establishment at the level of acts of the Russian government in the absence of a single legislative act. In 2024, legislative innovations were introduced to clarify the procedures for changing experimental legal regimes and putting them under general regulation. In this regard, it is crucial to analyse the experimental legal regimes that have been introduced by sectors of the economy, consider expanding the list of areas for the development, testing, and introduction of digital innovations, and assess the potential risks of using experimental legal regimes for promising high technologies. What needs to be done to develop a unified legal regulation on the creation and operation of regulatory sandboxes? How can we further stimulate organizations and individual entrepreneurs to participate in experimental regimes?