Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 9.12.2004

Federal Law No. 158-FZ of December 7, 2004 on the Ratification of the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices with Amendments of May 3, 1996 (Protocol II with Amendments of May 3, 1996) to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects

Ratifies the Protocol with amendments adopted in Geneva on May 3, 1996 with individual declarations. Thus, alternative systems in the Russian Federation are implied to be devices and technologies of non-lethal effect not being anti-personnel mines that may temporarily demobilise, paralyse or designate the presence of one or several persons without incurring an irrevocable damage.

Anti-personnel mines, other than remote-control ones, may be installed in the regions with a marked perimeter observed by military personnel and protected with a fence or otherwise to efficiently prevent the entry of civilian population in the mentioned regions. Such markings must be clear, persistent and must be at least visible to the person intending to enter the region with a marked perimeter. As a marking of the part of the perimeter of the mined region within the territory adjacent to the borderline may be regarded the state borderline designated on the ground if there are active and multiple attempts of crossing it by military personnel, with the military, economic, physical-and-geographic and other conditions not permitting to use armed forces. The civilian population will be informed appropriately of the danger of mines and will not be permitted to the mined region.

Order of the Federal Agency of Technical Regulation and Metrology No. 246 of November 17, 2004 on the Officials of the Federal Agency of Technical Regulation and Metrology and Its Territorial Bodies Authorised to Draw up the Protocols of Administrative Violations and Apply Enforcement Measures in Cases of Administrative Violations

Lists officials of the Federal Agency of Technical Regulation and Metrology and its territorial bodies authorised to draw up the protocols and apply enforcement measures in cases of administrative violations within their sphere of reference.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on December 2, 2004. Reg. No. 6165.

Order of the Federal Tax Service No. SAE-3-09/16@ of November 1, 2004 on the Methodology Explanations on the Filling of the Forms of Documents Used for the State Registration of the Legal Entity and Independent Entrepreneur

Specifies the particulars of filling of the application for the state registration of legal entities of various organisational and legal forms when they are created and for the state registration of independent entrepreneur.

Provides the rules of filling of other documents used for the state registration of legal entities and independent entrepreneurs: for the state registration of the changes in the constituent documents of the legal entity, changes in the information on the legal entity other than the changes in the constituent documents, in cases of termination of the unitary enterprise because of the sale of its property complex, in cases of termination of activities of an incorporated entity, in cases of liquidation, as well as submission of the notification of the changes in the constituent documents of the legal entity, of the adoption of the decision on the liquidation, on the forming of the liquidation commission of the legal entity, assigning the receiver, of the drawing up of the intermediary liquidation balance report and to other.