Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 5.11.2002

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 794 of November 1, 2002 on the Endorsement of the Regulation on the Issue of the Residence Permit to Foreign Citizens and Stateless Persons

A foreign citizen (stateless person) having reached 18 years of age and having lived on the territory of the Russian Federation for at least one year on the basis of the temporary residence permission may get residence permit. The residence permit is issued by the territorial body of the federal body of executive power in charge of internal affairs at the place of residence on the basis of the written application submitted to the body of internal affairs personally by an able-bodied foreign citizen (stateless person) no later than 6 months in advance of the end of the time of his temporary residence in the Russian Federation. A foreign citizen (stateless person) having not yet reached 18 years of age gets the residence permit on the basis of the written application submitted to the body of internal affairs by one of the parents or legal representative.
The Decision specifies the procedure of accepting and consideration of applications. The time of consideration of the application must not be greater than 6 months from the day of submission of the application with all necessary and properly drawn up documents.
The residence permit is issued to the foreign citizen for the valid time of his personal identification document, however, not more than for 5 years. The residence permit to a stateless person is issued for 5 years.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 793 of November 1, 2002 on the Fixing of the Cost of Living in Per Capita Figures and for the Main Socio-Demographic Groups of Population for the Whole of the Russian Federation for the III Quarter of 2002

In the III quarter of 2002, the cost of living for the whole of the Russian Federation is fixed to amount to: Rbl 1,817 per capita, Rbl 1,980 for the able-bodied population, Rbl 1,387 of pensioners, Rbl 1,799 for children.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 792 of November 1, 2002 on the Amendments to the Customs Tariff of the Russian Federation

Fixes specific components of the import customs duties for untreated alloy-free tin (code according to the Foreign Trade Commodity Nomenclature 8001 10 000 0) and for primary polymethylmetacrylate (code according to the Foreign Trade Commodity Nomenclature 3906 10 000 0).
As to the tires and tire cases for cars (FTCN codes 4012 11 000 0, 4012 20 900 0 and 4012 90 200 0), combined rate of import customs duty is fixed in the amount of 20%, however, not less than EUR 6.2 per piece. Earlier, the rate of import customs duty for these commodities amounted to 20% of the customs cost.
The Decision is entered into force one month after the day of its official publication.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 789 of November 1, 2002 on the Endorsement of the Regulation on the Issue of the Temporary Residence Permission to Foreign Citizens and Stateless Persons

A foreign citizen (stateless person) having arrived to the territory of the Russian Federation is obliged to apply at the expected place of residence to the territorial body of the federal body of executive power in charge of internal affairs within 3 working days to draw up the temporary residence permission.
A foreign citizen (stateless person) having reached 14 years of age gets the temporary residence permission in the form of a stamp of the specified type in his personal identification document.
To do it, application and other listed properly drawn up documents are submitted to the body of internal affairs. The application shall not be accepted for consideration if the personal identification document pertains to his service or professional activities, including the sailor passport, or expires in less than 6 months.
The time of consideration of the application must not be greater than 6 months from the day of submission. The temporary residence permission is issued for 3 years. When drawing up the permission, the state dactylographic registration of the foreign citizen (stateless person) is obligatory. The issue of the temporary residence permission is charged with a state fee.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 788 of October 31, 2002 on the Interagency Commissions on Financial Rehabilitation of Agricultural Producers

Endorses the Regulations on the interagency federal and territorial commissions arranging the activities in financial rehabilitation of agricultural producers. Lists the goals of activities, the rights, procedure of forming and endorsement of the composition and other organizational issues.

Letter of the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation No. 02-18/05-7418 of October 25, 2002

Explains the procedure of application of the normative legal acts of the USSR regulating the issues of assigning, calculation and payment of the temporary disability allowances. Lists the acts regulating the procedure of calculation of the continuous length of service for the purposes of assigning of the temporary disability allowances.