Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 2.07.2004

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 320 of June 30, 2004 on the Endorsement of the Regulation on Federal Agency of Communication

The Federal Agency of Communication is a federal body of executive power in charge of the state property management and rendering of state services in the sphere of tele- and postal communication, including the creation, development and use of communication networks, satellite communication systems, TV and radio broadcasting systems. The Federal Agency of Communication is supervised by the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communication.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 319 of June 30, 2004 on the Endorsement of the Regulation on the Federal Agency of Information Technologies

The Federal Agency of Information Technologies is a federal body of executive power in charge of the state property management and rendering of state services in the sphere of information technologies, including the use of information technologies to build state information resources and provide access to them. The Federal Agency is an authorised federal body of executive power in the sphere of use of electronic digital signature. The Federal Agency is supervised by the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communication.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 318 of June 30, 2004 on the Endorsement of the Regulation on the Federal State Service of Supervision in the Sphere of Communication

The Federal Service of Supervision in the Sphere of Communication is a federal body of executive power in charge of control and supervision in the sphere of information technologies and communication. The Federal Service is supervised by the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communication. The Federal Service shall license activities in the sphere of communication services, international exchange of the federal information resources and the joint information resources of the Russian Federation and its subjects, activities of the centres of certification of the electronic digital signature, as well as control of observance of available license requirements and terms.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 317 of June 30, 2004 on the Endorsement of the Regulation on the Federal Service of Financial Markets

The Federal Service of Financial Markets is a federal body of executive power in charge of the adoption of the normative legal acts, control and supervision in the sphere of financial markets (except for the insurance, bank and audit activities). The management of the Federal Service of Financial Markets is vested in the Government of the Russian Federation. The Federal Service shall license professional activities at the securities market, activities of non-state pension funds, joint-stock investment funds, activities in the management of investment funds, shared investment funds and non-state pension funds, as well as activities of the specialised depositaries of investment funds, shared investment funds and non-state pension funds.

Order of the State Customs Committee of the Russian Federation No. 646 of June 7, 2004 on the Endorsement of the Regulation on the Certification of Experts

Defines the requirements to the certification of the experts of the Central Expert and Criminalistics Customs Department and the expert and criminalistics services of the regional customs departments wishing to carry out independently expert evaluation in the customs sphere.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on June 30, 2004. Reg. No. 5879.

Letter of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation No. 01/52-04-32 of June 15, 2004

Explains that the normatives of the area of the apothecary organisations envisaged in the Industry Standard 915000.05.0007-2003 "Rules of Sale of Medicines in Apothecary Organisations. Main Provisions" are not of obligatory nature and may not apply in the licensing of pharmacy activities. Emphasises that the regulation of the normatives of the area of the apothecary organisations at present is an unmotivated and inexpedient administrative barrier preventing from efficient work and development of the pharmacy industry.