NOVO-OGAREVO (Moscow region), June 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Justice Minister Yuri Chaika to draft a decree that would authorize the ministry to monitor the country's entire legislation.

Chaika came up with this initiative at the meeting with the president on Wednesday.

The minister reported to President Putin that after the presidential state-of-the-nation address to the Federal Assembly (Russia's parliament), which among other issues had focused on the improvement of Russia's legal system, the Justice Ministry had held a consultation with heads of all legal services, ministries and departments on May 27.

The consultation, which was attended by over 200 people representing 74 government bodies, worked out a constructive mechanism to improve the efficiency of this sector.

Chaika told the president that the Justice Ministry proposed to draft a decree or some other kind of regulation that would let the ministry monitor the country's entire legislation.

President Putin ordered the minister to draft such a document.

Chaika also suggested that he should report to the president on the results of monitoring annually.

The minister complained that the Russian legislation was not systematically monitored, and the authorities often approved documents contradicting the legislation.

He also proposed that a bill on regulatory legal acts be drafted. Emphasizing that there was no uniform method of lawmaking in Russia, he called for the creation of such mechanism for preparing, approving and publishing regulatory legal acts, which would be used at all levels, from municipal units to the federal level.

While speaking to representatives of legal services of the federal executive bodies at late May's consultation, Chaika suggested that control of departmental regulations should be tightened.

"Certain government bodies violate legislation, while issuing departmental regulations," the minister said. Last year 206 departmental regulations were turned down, including those of the State Development Committee, the Ministry of Health and Social Development, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Agriculture and others.

In a number of cases the Russian Supreme Court's decisions to repeal such regulations are not executed, with regulations withheld from registration not annulled.

"All these facts prompted the Ministry of Justice to work out proposals approved by the Russian President to improve the mechanism for controlling departmental regulations, increase responsibility of departments and guarantee the annulment of regulations acknowledged by the court as void or withheld from registration in due time," Chaika said.