Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 20.11.2001

Federal Law No. 145-FZ of November 17, 2001 on the Amendment to Article 326 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation

Amends Article 326 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Fabrication or Destruction of the Transport Vehicle Identification Number". Sets forth that corpus delicti envisaged in the given Article includes the selling of single pieces of numbered units (body, chassis, engine) bearing faked numbers. Earlier, corpus delicti included only the selling of the whole of the transport vehicle with the faked identification number, body number, chassis number, engine number.
The Federal Law is entered into force from the day of its official publication. The text of the Federal Law is published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta on November 20, 2001, No. 227.

Federal law No. 144-FZ of November 17, 2001 on the Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the Criminal Procedural Code of the RSFSR

Amendments are introduced in the criminal legislations pertaining to the violation of inventor and patent rights, as well as illegal use of the trademark. Article 180 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Illegal Use of the Trademark" sets forth qualification evidence of the crimes envisaged in Parts 1 and 2 of the given Article, such as the crime committed by a group of persons through preliminary agreement or by organized group. Appropriate changes are introduced in the RSFSR Criminal Procedural Code (Article 126 "Need for Preliminary Investigation and Sphere of Jurisdiction" and Article 414 "Proceedings"). The cases of crimes envisaged in Parts 1 and 2 of Article 180 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation imply inquest, and in Part 3 - preliminary investigation carried out by investigators of the bodies of internal affairs.
The Federal Law is entered into force from the day of its official publication. The text of the federal law is published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta on November 20, 2001, No. 227.

Order of the Federal Service of the Railway Troops of the Russian Federation No. 359 of October 31, 2001 on the Procedure of Publication of the Normative Acts of the Federal Service of the Railway Troops of Russia Recognized by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation As Not Requiring the State Registration

Sets forth that publication in the weekly newspaper "Voyenny Zheleznodorozhnik" of the normative acts of the Federal Service of the Railway Troops of the Russian Federation recognized by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation as not requiring state registration is considered to be official.
      Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on November 14, 2001. Reg. No. 3031.