As one of the ways public and municipal services electronic format to facilitate passage of the simplification of procedures, FZ 'On the organization of public and municipal services' proposed use of the universal e-card which is the material medium containing recorded, including in electronic form, information about the user of such card and provides access to information about the user card that is used for ID card user rights for state and municipal services, as well as other services for the commission in cases stipulated by legislation of the Russian Federation, legal acts in electronic form. Thus, the Federal Law 'On the organization of public and municipal services' specifies only the general provisions fixing the legal framework for the use of electronic cards in the process public and municipal services. Ability to provide public and municipal services should be provided directly to those federal laws and other federal normative and legal acts which regulate the legal relations arising in connection with the provision of any state or municipal services. In the course of legislative activities have been identified legislative Acts of the Russian Federation, as well as the provisions of the laws of the Russian Federation, impeding the transition to the provision of public and municipal services (hereinafter – the public services) in electronic form using universal electronic card (Universal Smart Card). Government services in documentary form with the direct presentation of an individual in the Universal Smart Card spot government services much difficulty does not matter. More complex and meaningful is to allow the use of Universal Smart Card as a tool to obtain government services through remote access.