Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 28.02.2003

Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation of February 27, 2003 on the Case of Constitutionality of the Provision of Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Execution Code of the Russian Federation Pursuant to the Appeals of Citizens P.L.Vereshchyak, V.M.Gladkov, I.V.Golyshev and K.P.Danilov

According to the challenged norm, the term of imprisonment under the sentence is calculated from the day of arrival of the convict to the prison.
According to the applicants, the provision of Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Execution Code of the Russian Federation actually extends the term of imprisonment under the sentence because of the preliminary detention, which is in violation of their rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation recognised as not contradicting the Constitution of the Russian Federation the provisions of Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation since the given provisions in their legal and constitutional essence do not exclude the authority of the court to include the time of preliminary detention in the term of imprisonment.
The Decision is entered into force immediately after the annunciation.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 121 of February 25, 2003 on the Amendments to the Customs Tariff of the Russian Federation

Specifies the rates of import customs duties for individual types of oilcakes and other solid residues obtained at extraction of soy oil (code according to the Foreign Trade Commodity Nomenclature of the Russian Federation 2304 00 000) in the amount of 5% to 20% of the customs cost (soybean flakes, duty free). Earlier, there was a uniform rate of 5% of the customs cost.
The Decision is entered into force one month after the day of its official publication for the term of 9 months.

Order of the State Customs Committee of the Russian Federation No. 1342 of December 15, 2002 on the Control over the Import and Export of the Licensed Commodities

Sets forth the uniform procedure of registration and keeping of the records of licenses in the customs bodies of the Russian Federation and the customs control of imported and exported commodities subject to licensing. The procedure includes control over the filling out of the blank form of the license and operative control over the import and export of the licensed commodities.
Specifies the duty of the holder of the license to present the original of the license for registration to the customs office before the actual moving of the commodities. During the customs registration of the licensed commodities, the check is made of the correspondence of information of the cargo customs declarations to information of the copy of the license. If significant inconsistency is revealed in the information declared in the cargo customs declaration as compared to the information mentioned in the license, the commodity is not released before the cargo customs declaration is changed or the license is changed or redrawn.
Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on February 26, 2003. Reg. No. 4233.

Order of the State Customs Committee of the Russian Federation No. 62 of January 27, 2003 on the Customs Registration of the Liquefied Hydrocarbon Gases

In the first six months of 2003, the customs registration of liquefied hydrocarbon gases (codes according to the Foreign Trade Commodity Nomenclature of the Russian Federation 2711 12 110 0 - 2711 19 000 0 and from 2901 10) exported under the export customs regime is carried out when oil and oil-and-gas processing organisations present to the customs bodies resource certificates indicating their No. and date in Column 44 of the cargo customs declaration "Additional Information/Presented Documents" under No. 9.
Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on February 26, 2003. Reg. No. 4232.