Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 19.03.2008

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 179 of March 17, 2008 on the Endorsement of the Regulation on the Use of Internet Sites Carrying out Open Auctions in the Electronic Form and on the Requirements to the Technological, Software, Linguistic, Legal and Organisational Means of Support of the Use of the Mentioned Sites, As Well As to the Systems Providing Open Auctions in the Electronic Form

To carry out an open auction in the electronic form, the ordering party may attract on the basis of the contract concluded in compliance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on the placing of orders an operator possessing the means of software and technological support and the site.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 173 of March 17, 2008 on the Endorsement of the Rates of Export Customs Duties for Raw Oil and Individual Categories of Commodities of Oil Exported from the Territory of the Russian Federation outside the Member-States of the Customs Union Agreements

The rate of the export customs duty for raw oil is fixed in the amount of USD 340.1 per ton (at present USD 333.8 per ton).

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 159 of March 11, 2008 on the Endorsement of the Rates of Export Customs Duties for Individual Types of Fertilisers Exported outside the Member-States of the Customs Union Agreements

Reduces the rates of export customs duties for individual types of fertilisers exported outside the member-states of the Customs Union agreements.

Order of the Federal Service of Enforcement in the Sphere of Mass Communication and Protection of Cultural Heritage No. 315 of October 22, 2007 on the Endorsement of the Administrative Regulation on the Execution of the State Function of Registration of Mass Media

Regulates execution by the Federal Service of Enforcement in the Sphere of Mass Communication and Protection of Cultural Heritage and its territorial bodies of the state function of registration of mass media.