Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 22.08.2005

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 522 of August 18, 2005 on the Increase from September 1, 2005 of Tariff Rates (Salaries) of Employees of the Federal State Institutions <br>

From September 1, 2005, increases 1.11 times tariff rates (salaries) of the Uniform Tariff of Labour Remuneration of Employees of the Federal State Institutions. Earlier, the Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 902 of December 31, 2004 increased tariff rates (salaries) of the mentioned employees 1.2 times from January 1, 2005 (the mentioned increase did not apply to employees of the military units and institutions subordinate to the federal bodies of executive power envisaging the military and similar service (except for the Federal Customs Service and the Federal Migration Service)).

Order of the Federal Service of the Russian Federation for Control over Circulation of Narcotics No. 225 of July 14, 2005 on the Endorsement of the Instruction on the Organisation of Work with Items Containing Precious Metals, Scrap and Waste of Precious Metals in the Bodies of Control over Circulation of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances <br>

Drug control bodies using electric equipment, means of communication, computers, other technical means containing precious metals must provide for their appropriate storage, collection, registration and handing over in due time to processing organisations of all kinds of scrap and waste of precious metals from all sources. Besides, the mentioned bodies must observe the procedure of drawing up and submission of the reports of receiving, consumption and residues of all kinds of scrap and waste of precious metals.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on August 18, 2005. Reg. No. 6918.

Order of the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communication of the Russian Federation No. 98 of August 8, 2005 on the Endorsement of the Requirements to the Traffic Transfer Procedure in a Public-Use Telephone Communication Network <br>

Specifies the rules of transfer of traffic when rendering services of local, regional, intercity and international telephone communication, mobile radio communication, mobile radio telephone communication, mobile satellite communication. Also specifies the procedure of transfer of traffic when rendering traffic transfer services. Traffic transfer service is activities to satisfy traffic transfer demands of communication operators between interacting telecommunication networks.

The requirements are introduced from January 1, 2006.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on August 18, 2005. Reg. No. 6917.

Order of the Federal Customs Service No. 325-r of July 26, 2005 on the Amendments to the Order of the State Customs Committee of Russia No. 1091-r of November 21, 2001 <br>

Collection 1 of decisions and explanations pertaining to classification according to the Foreign Trade Commodity Nomenclature of the Russian Federation of individual commodities is extended to include eight new groups of commodities, in particular, used agricultural tractors, truck tractors, buses, cars and trucks. The moment of issue of the transport vehicles is considered to be the date of its production as shown on the transport vehicle and in the accompanying documents. If only the month of production is indicated, such day is considered to be the 15th of this month. If only the year, July 1st of this year. If the documents confirming the date of production of this transport vehicle are not available, the year of issue is determined according to the production code in the identification number, with the full year being calculated from July 1st of the year of production of the transport vehicle. If the date of production of the transport vehicle is not indicated at all, any true information may be used ava ilable with the customs body as of the moment of the customs registration permitting to determine the date of production.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on August 18, 2005. Reg. No. 6914.

Order of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation No. 497 of August 10, 2005 on the Amendments to the List of Medicines <br>

Extends the list of medicines sold to doctor (feldsher) prescriptions when additional free medical aid is rendered to individual categories of citizens entitled for the state social aid.

The list includes thirteen new names of medicines.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on August 17, 2005. Reg. No. 6913.

Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation No. 568 of July 15, 2005 on the Procedure for Carrying out Periodic Checks by the Bodies of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation of Private Bodyguards, Private Detectives (Investigators) and Employees of Legal Entities Featuring Special Chartered Tasks for Their Fitness to Act in Conditions Involving the Use of Firearms and Special Devices <br>

Periodic checks carried out by the bodies of internal affairs may be of three types: initial, planned and subsequent ones. Initial check are arranged before the issue of permissions for the right to keep and carry appropriate types and models of firearms or after obtaining a written request of the head of the organisation to hand out special devices to an employee. Planned checks are arranged once a year during the month preceding the day and month of the date of issue of the permission for the right of keeping and carrying of firearms, handing out of special devices, as well as when violations of the rules of use of firearms or special devices by employees are revealed. A subsequent check is arranged if the employees of organisations fail to pass the mentioned checks.

If an employee fails to pass the subsequent check, an order is sent to the head of the appropriate organisation to provide for the necessary retraining of the mentioned employee. In this case, the body of internal affairs revokes the permission to keep and carry service arms issued to the mentioned employee.

The Regulation endorsed by the Order is entered into force from August 1, 2005.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on August 17, 2005. Reg. No. 6911.