On 2 August 1994 the Control Service of the
Administration of the President of the Republic of Belarus was established (in
1995 it was transformed into the Control Service of the President of the
Republic of Belarus).
The legal successor of the first presidential control
body is the State Control Committee, established in 1996 by the Decree of the
Head of State. Since that time, the main control agency has been a
constitutional body, and its functions are prescribed in the Basic Law of the
country and legislative acts.
The priority tasks of the State Control Committee are
to ensure economic security of the state, control over the execution of the
republican budget and the use of state property, and control over the
fulfilment of instructions of the President of Belarus.
At present, the structure of the State Control
Committee includes subdivisions carrying out control activities, the Department
of Financial Investigations (law enforcement agency) and the Department of
Financial Monitoring (financial intelligence). The unique structure of the
control agency ensures the completeness of the entire cycle of control and
analytical activities aimed at preventing and detecting violations and crimes,
suppressing them, bringing the guilty to justice, and identifying savings
reserves.
The SCC's control is focused on virtually all areas of
activity - budgetary, financial and social, material production sectors,
agro-industrial and environmental complexes, housing and communal services,
forestry, banking, the consumer market, use of state property, etc. The State
Control Committee also coordinates the activities of all the country's
supervisory and oversight bodies. Considerable work is done to improve control
activities, which are oriented towards the prevention of violations and the
identification of untapped reserves in the economy. An important area is the
resolution of citizens' issues.
Today, the State Control Committee is focused on
identifying systemic problems in the economy and preparing proposals for their
elimination. The principled control and analytical work of the agency has made
it possible to develop cardinal measures to improve the efficiency of various
industries. Only recently, effective measures have been taken to restore order
in the transport complex (passenger transport by shuttle taxis), with
construction in progress (their number has been reduced several times), in the
meat and dairy industry (elimination of intermediaries and suppression of
shadow schemes for exporting products), in the housing and utilities sector
(significant reduction of overdue major repairs of housing), in the consumer
market (price control and suppression of overcharges), suppression of illegal
tax evasion schemes and economic corruption etc.