Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of federal legislation in the field of strategic planning. During the analysis of legal regulation in this area, it was found that public authorities implement strategic planning documents within the framework of goal setting, forecasting, planning and programming, but this part of management activities is not actually covered by the current evaluation mechanism. Attention is drawn to the existence of a number of terminological contradictions contained in federal legislation that negatively affect the state of legal regulation in this area. Planning is defined by the federal legislator as an activity for the development and implementation of activities, activity plans aimed at achieving the goals and priorities contained in strategic planning documents developed within the framework of goal setting. That is, according to the meaning of the law, planning as such does not cover goal-setting, but at the same time includes the development and implementation of documents at the same time, which initially introduces a contradiction in the understanding of these terms. The study found that the current strategic planning system today does not take into account a number of amendments made to the Russian Constitution in 2020. In particular, we are talking about federal territories. It is established that federal legislation does not regulate the specifics of strategic planning in other territories where a special preferential regime is in effect. The law does not define the procedure for monitoring the implementation of strategic planning documents, which reduces the level of their legal effectiveness. In order to improve management activities, it is proposed to create a unified information and analytical portal for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the implementation of strategic planning documents. Proposals and recommendations are made aimed at eliminating the existing contradictions and identified shortcomings of legal regulation in the field of strategic planning.