Step by step, new digital technologies are capturing different spheres of our life. The opportunities of their application are almost infinite, and potential is very promising. But digital innovations as a trend represent a challenge for every modern state. Especially for member-countries of the BRICS union who seek to become the world’s leading countries. For this reason, the most important task for the members of BRICS is to create adequate “smart” regulation, which offers alternative ways of regulatory impact on transforming business relations. Using the regulatory sandbox as an experimental legal regime is one of the ways to test the creation, production, and realization of digital innovation. Having been first applied in 2016 in the United Kingdom, nowadays this model is successfully implemented in such countries as Singapore, Australia, and the United Arab Emirates. Member-countries of BRICS are only beginning to adopt this unorthodox tool; in most of its countries the legal framework is ongoing now. The aim of this research is to analyze current legislation and legal framework on the regulatory sandboxes in BRICS countries, define features of national models, difficulties and further prospects of its usage. This research is based on the comparative and formal juridical analysis of legislation, draft laws, and research papers dedicated to regulatory sandboxes in BRICS. The authors identify different barriers and risks of using regulatory sandboxes for the digital innovations successfully and offer some ways to overcome these challenges, including the formulation of guidelines for operating regulatory sandboxes based on a balance of public and private interests. The authors conclude that it is necessary to update legislation on the regulatory sandboxes for reaching positive effect from the digital transformation and make several suggestions for optimization its provisions. The results achieved in research paper can be used both in the lawmaking process as well as the foundation for further scientific researches.

After obtaining her graduate diploma at the Faculty of Law University of Maribor she was selected for the position of young researcher to obtain PhD with the support of Technological research agency of Slovenia. She was awarded from ministry of economic development and technology for gaining her PhD and for contributing to the cooperation between scientific sphere and practice. Dr. Tjaša Ivanc is author or co-author of several books and scientific articles in the fields of her interests. She participates in domestic and international scientific conferences and was an invited lecturer at the European Justice Training Network-Seminar on cross-border Inheritance Law, Academy of Justice and at the conference "Europe for Notaries" from Austrian Chamber of Civil Law Notaries, Vienna. She cooperated in number of successfully completed international and national projects (Simplification of debt collection in the EU; Reform of Non-Contentious Procedure in Slovenia; Medicine and Law; Legal consistency of ACE, AETS and TOLL+ with 1) European Union Law, 2) Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on the Carriage of Goods and Passengers by Rail and Road and transport 3) National Law of Austria,

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The Law Amending the General Administrative Procedure Act refers to a variety of provisions. New solutions should contribute to a more rapid, more efficient and more cost-effective procedure. Primarily due to elimination of the inconsistent use of individual provisions in practice, the amending law regulates more definitely the issues of authorising the persons to manage and make decisions at different decision-making levels in administrative procedures in municipalities. The law also develops electronic operations and it especially amends the electronic service provisions. There is a fairly large number of amendments in the Service Chapter. And an important novelty needs to be emphasized. This is the institute of the waiver of the right to appeal which the General Administrative Procedure Act did not know. However, it is well-known in foreign legal regulations and in the Construction Act adopted in our country. KEY WORDS: • administrative procedure • electronic operations • right to appeal

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