Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 10.02.2005

Order of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation No. 328 of December 29, 2004 on the Endorsement of the Procedure of Providing of the Set of Social Services to Individual Categories of Citizens

Specifies the rules of providing to citizens the set of social services in the form of additional free medical aid (including the one envisaging providing necessary medicines to doctors' (feldsher) prescriptions, providing accommodations for sanatorium and resort treatment in the presence of medical indications) and free travel on suburban railway transport, as well as on intercity transport to the place of treatment and back.

The set of the social services is provided to citizens included in the Federal Register of Persons Entitled for the State Social Aid (reference lists provided).

The Order provides the form of the application for the set of social services (social service) to be submitted to the territorial body of the Pension Fund of Russia assigning the monthly monetary payment. The period of providing of the set of social services to citizens is one calendar year. Application for the subsequent year is submitted by the citizen to the territorial body of the Pension Fund of Russia on the annual basis until October 1, of the current year.

The granting of the necessary medicines to citizens is vested in the prevention and treatment institutions providing initial medical and sanitary aid.

The sanatorium and resort treatment is arranged by providing accommodations in the presence of medical indications to the sanatorium and resort organisations located on the territory of the Russian Federation and included in the list endorsed by the Ministry of Public Health and Social Development of Russia. The accommodations for the sanatorium and resort treatment are purchased by the Social Insurance Fund of Russia.

Simultaneously with the sanatorium and resort accommodations provided by the executive bodies of the Fund or the bodies of social protection of population, the citizens get special tokens for the right of free long-distance travel on the railway, air, highway and water transport.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on February 7, 2005. Reg. No. 6303.

Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation No. 26 of January 19, 2005 on the Amendments to the Normative Legal Acts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia

Amends the procedure of assigning of the state registration plates to transport vehicles. Amends, in particular, the list of the digital codes of the regions of the Russian Federation used on the state registration plates of transport vehicles and other special products necessary for the transport vehicles and their drivers to participate in traffic. The new wording is provided for the list of the digital codes used on the registration plates to designate the transport vehicles of employees of diplomatic representations, consular institutions, international (inter-state) organisations accredited with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia.

Also changes the rules of registration of motor vehicles and trailers for them in the State Traffic Inspection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The amendments take into account the Decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation No. GKPI 2003-635 of October 10, 2003 having invalidated Item 3.1 of the mentioned Rules inasmuch as it obliges the owners or holders of transport vehicles to remove them from records before concluding a contract terminating their proprietary rights for the transport vehicles. When removing from records transport vehicles and numbered units because of the termination of the proprietary rights on the basis of the contract concluded in oral form, the notes indicating the reasons of removal from records and the new owner are entered in column "Special Notes" of the certificate for the transport vehicle. Similar notes are entered in the register of transport vehicles and the registration card for the transport vehicle.

The Order specifies that if the transport vehicles are registered simultaneously with the removal from records, the divisions in charge of the registration shall hand out the "Transit" registration plates. The handing out of such registration plates is recorded in the certificate for the transport vehicle. Certificates of registration of transport vehicles in such cases are not handed out.

The Order specifies that the owners or holders of transport vehicles shall submit insurance policy of obligatory insurance of the civil responsibility in cases of registration, including the temporary one, and of change of the registration information for the transport vehicles when the duty to insure the civil responsibility is envisaged in the federal law.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on February 7, 2005. Reg. No. 6299.