Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 29.10.2001

Federal Law No. 138-FZ of October 25, 2001 on the Amendments to the Federal Law on the Individual (Personified) Records in the System of State Pension Insurance and to Articles 12 and 67 of the Federal Law on the Acts of Civil Status

The individual personal account of the insured person is used by the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation to include information on the paid (and not only accrued) insurance contributions. The Law specifies the list of information handed over to the bodies of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation from the bodies of registration of the acts of civil status.
The Law amends Article 67 of the Federal Law on the acts of civil status permitting to preserve information on the last place of residence of the diseased in the act of death. The presence of this information will permit to track the timely removal of the diseased from records because of the death and, as a result, to provide appropriate state financial control over the correctness of assigning and paying of the pensions.
Changes from quarterly to semiannual the periods of submission of information of the individual (personified) records in the system of state pension insurance for employees with the number of working persons greater than 50 as of the year beginning. The employees with the payroll up to 50 persons inclusive preserve the quarterly procedure of submission of information. The law changes the periods of submission of information of the individual (personified) records for the citizens paying insurance contributions independently. The mentioned category of payers present information once a year.

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 1243 of October 23, 2001 on the Measures to Implement the Resolution of the UN Security Council No. 1367 of September 10, 2001

Beginning with September 10, 2001, abandons the measures prohibiting supplies of products of military destination to Yugoslavia. All state institutions, industrial, trade, transport and other enterprises, companies, banks, organizations, other legal entities and natural persons subject to the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation are offered to proceed from the mentioned information in their activities.

Order of the State Customs Committee of the Russian Federation No. 940 of September 25, 2001 on the Amendments to the Order of the State Customs Committee of Russia No. 254 of March 30, 2000

Changes the procedure of taking preliminary decisions by the State Customs Committee of the Russian Federation on the classification of commodities according to the Foreign-Trade Commodity Nomenclature. Fixes the 30-day time limits whenever the Directorate of Tariff and Non-Tariff Regulation of the State Customs Committee of the Russian Federation informs the interested party of the necessity of presenting additional information, documents and materials necessary to consider the request for taking the preliminary decision. The new rule provides for the restoration of the preliminary decision in case of its loss by the applicant by issuing a copy of it. Earlier, the preliminary decision could not be restored. The payment for the issue of the copy is not collected.
The Order is entered into force thirty days after its official publication. The text of the Order is published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta on October 25, 2001, No. 208.
Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on October 18, 2001. Reg. No. 2976.

Order of the Russian Patent Agency and the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 110/77n of September 19, 2001 on the Endorsement of the Procedure of Transfer and Registration of the Resources Obtained from the Payment of Patent Duties and Registration Fees for the Official Registration of Computer Software, Databases and Integrated-Circuit Layouts Except for the Resources Received from the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization

Fixes the procedure of entering of the monetary resources in the Russian and foreign currencies on the accounts used to register the resources received for temporary use by the Russian Patent Agency and transfer of the given resources from the mentioned accounts.
The Order is entered into force 10 days after the day of its official publication. The text of the Order is published in the Bulletin of Normative Acts of the Federal Bodies of Executive Power on October 22, 2001, No. 43.
Beginning with November 1, 2001, the Russian Patent Agency conveys to the payers the new requisites of accounts to enter the resources obtained from the payment of duties and fees.
Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on October 15, 2001. Reg. No. 2971.