Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 4.09.2006

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 532 of August 31, 2006 on the Licensing of Activities in Development and/or Production of the Means of Protection of Confidential Information

Defines the procedure of licensing of activities in development and/or production of the means of protection of confidential information carried out by legal entities and independent entrepreneurs envisaging applicant licence requirements and terms, as well as the list of documents submitted to get the license.

The licensing is vested in the Federal Service of Technical and Export Control, and where it pertains to the development and/or production of the means of protection of confidential information installed on the objects of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, Security Council, Federal Assembly, the Government of the Russian Federation, Constitutional Court, Supreme Court and the Higher Arbitration Court - in the Federal Security Service of Russia.

The decision to grant or refuse to grant the license shall be taken within the time limits not greater than 45 days from the date of receiving of the application for the license and the documents in the licensing body. If the document confirming the presence of the license is lost, a copy of it is handed out on the basis of the written application of the license holder within 10 days from the date of receiving of the application.

The period of validity of the license makes 5 years and may be prolonged upon expiry against application of the license holder according to the procedure envisaged for the redrawing of the license.

The earlier issued licenses for the activities in development and/or production of the means of protection of confidential information shall preserve their force until expiry.

The Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 348 of May 27, 2002 on the endorsement of the Regulation on the licensing of activities in development and/or production of the means of protection of confidential information and appropriate provisions of the decisions amending it are invalidated.

Lists of Potent and Poisonous Substances (Endorsed at the Session of the Standing Committee for Control of Narcotics of June 15, 2005, Protocol 3/99-05 with Amendments, of January 27, 2005, Protocol 1/97-05, of April 3, 2005, Protocol 2/98-05, of December 8, 2005, Protocol 5/101-05, of March 16, 2006, Protocol 1/102-06)

Issues the lists of potent and poisonous substances containing the names of medicines and substances not being narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.

The mentioned lists are used for qualification of crimes in the sphere of illegal circulation of potent and poisonous substances for the purpose of sale.

The potent and poisonous substances include not only substances, but also dosed medicines (if other components defining the specific activity of the preparation are not included in the preparation), all solutions and salts of these substances.

The list of potent substances includes 126 names, the list of poisonous ones - 65.

The issue of inclusion of a particular substance in potent or poisonous ones is resolved expertly if: the given substance is not yet included in the lists; a combined substance includes besides the main controlled substance also other pharmacy active substances that are not included in the lists.

In case of a positive statement of the Standing Committee for Control of Narcotics, appropriate substances are included in the lists.

The lists are entered into force from July 1, 2006.

Letter of the Department of the Tax and Customs Tariff Policy of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 03-11-04/3/387 of August 25, 2006

The services of technical maintenance and repair of cars are envisaged in the All-Russia Classifier of Services to the Population (OKUN), therefore, taxpayers rendering such services may be transferred to the uniform imputed income tax. The covering of services of warranty maintenance of cars by producer factories of these cars may not serve as grounds to exclude the warranty services from the services of technical maintenance. The given services may also be transferred to the uniform imputed income tax.