Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 28.12.2012

Order of the Ministry of Communication and Mass Communication Infrastructure of the Russian Federation No. 202 of August 17, 2012 on the endorsement of the procedure for demonstration of the sign of information product in the beginning of broadcast and each renewal of broadcast (after a break for advertising material and/or another information)

Order of the Federal Fishing Agency No. 890 of November 8, 2012 on the invalidation of Order of the Federal Fishing Agency No. 190 of March 1, 2012 – lifts restrictions on the catch of spotted flounder

Order of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation No. 586 of November 7, 2012 on the restriction of catching of spotted flounder in the West Sakhalin and East Sakhalin subzones in 2012

Order of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation No. 596 of November 15, 2012 on the restrictions of catching of individual types of aquatic biological resources in 2012-2012

Resolution of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission No. 238 of November 27, 2012 on the distribution among third countries of the volumes of additional tariff quotas for the import of individual types of agricultural goods to the territory of the Russian Federation until December 31, 2012 inclusive and on the amendments to Resolution of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission No. 217 of November 13, 2012

Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation No. 28-P of November 26, 2012 on the case of constitutionality of provisions of Part 1 of Article 16.2 and Part 2 of Article 27.11 of the Code of Administrative Violations of the Russian Federation pursuant to the appeal of the limited-liability company Avesta – responsibility for the failure to declare the goods moved across the customs border

Decision of the Higher Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation No. VAS-13840/12 of November 29, 2012 – application of the zero rate of the profit tax to the dividends paid out from undistributed profits of previous years

Federal Law No. 215-FZ of December 1, 2012 on the ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the United Arab Emirates on the promotion and mutual protection of capital investments and the Protocol to the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the United Arab Emirates on the promotion and mutual protection of capital investments

Federal Law No. 214-FZ of December 1, 2012 on the ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea on the promotion and mutual protection of capital investments

Federal Law No. 213-FZ of December 1, 2012 on the amendments to the Federal Law on the obligatory medical insurance in the Russian Federation – refines the procedure for choosing insurance organisation

Federal Law No. 212-FZ of December 1, 2012 on the amendments to the Code of Administrative Violations of the Russian Federation – liabilities in the cases of damage to health incurred by a fire

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1236 of November 29, 2012 on the amendments to certain acts of the Government of the Russian Federation on the issues of technical examination of transport vehicles – the warrant of fitness is not used any more

Order of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation No. 223 of November 30, 2012 on the Procedure for keeping the register of non-commercial organisations fulfilling the functions of a foreign agent

Federal Law No. 245-FZ of December 3, 2012 on the amendments to Article 150 of Part 2 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation – application of VAT in the cases of import of cultural values

Federal Law No. 244-FZ of December 3, 2012 on the amendments to the Budget Code of the Russian Federation and individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation – revision of normatives of distribution of certain incomes among budgets

Federal Law No. 243-FZ of December 3, 2012 on the amendments to individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation on the issues of obligatory pension insurance

Federal Law No. 242-FZ of December 3, 2012 on the amendments to individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation on the issues of payments at the expense of accumulated pensions

Federal Law No. 241-FZ of December 3, 2012 on the amendments to Article 27 of the Federal Law on gas supplies in the Russian Federation – specifies the parties enjoying priority rights in the use of free capacities of gas supply and gas distribution networks

Federal Law No. 239-FZ of December 3, 2012 on the amendments to the Law of the Russian Federation on the customs tariff – oil exporters can forecast anticipated customs payments more accurately

Federal Law No. 236-FZ of December 3, 2012 on the amendments to the Labour Code of the Russian Federation and Article 1 of the Federal Law on the technical regulation – introduces the norms of professional standards

Federal Law No. 235-FZ of December 3, 2012 on the amendments to Article 11 of the Federal Law on the organisation and carrying out of the XXII Winter Olympic Games and the XI Winter Paralympic Games of 2014 in the city of Sochi, development of the city of Sochi as a mountain resort and on the amendments to individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation and Article 333.35 of Part 2 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 232-FZ of December 3, 2012 on the amendment to Article 1 of the Federal Law on the minimum amount of labour remuneration – increases the above figure in 2013

Federal Law No. 228-FZ of December 3, 2012 on the insurance tariff rates for obligatory social insurance against occupational accidents and diseases for the year 2013 and for the planned period of 2014 and 2015

Federal Law No. 225-FZ of December 3, 2012 on the ratification of the Agreement on cooperation and mutual aid in the customs area in the issues of activities of representations of customs services of the member-states of the Customs Union in the framework of the Eurasian Economic Community

Federal Law No. 224-FZ of December 3, 2012 on the ratification of the Protocol on the amendments to the Agreement on certain issues of providing security of payment of customs duties, taxes for the goods transported under the customs transit customs procedure, particulars of collection of customs duties, taxes and procedure of transfer of collected amounts for such goods of May 21, 2010

Federal Law No. 223-FZ of December 3, 2012 on the ratification of the Protocol on the amendments to the Agreement on the procedure for natural persons to move the goods for personal use across the customs border of the Customs Union and carry out customs operations of their release of June 18, 2010

Federal Law No. 222-FZ of December 3, 2012 on the ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Belarus on cooperation in the area of investigation and use of outer space for peaceful purposes

Order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation No. 236 of July 16, 2012 on the endorsement of the Administrative Regulation of the Federal Agency of the Air Transport on the provided state service on organisation and carrying out according to the available procedure of obligatory certification of airports and keeping of the state register of airports of the Russian Federation

Resolution of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission No. 243 of December 4, 2012 on the amendments to certain resolutions of the Commission of the Customs Union and the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission in the context of amendments to the Joint Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activities of the Customs Union

Order of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation No. 177n of September 6, 2012 on the endorsement of the Administrative Regulation of the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation on the provided state service of granting mark-downs to the insurance tariff rate for obligatory social insurance against occupational accidents and diseases

Information of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. PZ-10/2012 of December 4, 2012 on the entry into force from January 1, 2013 of Federal Law No. 402-FZ of December 6, 2011 on accounting work (PZ – 10/2012)

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1251 of December 3, 2012 on the measures of support of all-in-one communication services

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1238 of December 1, 2012 on the state registration of the terms of issue and circulation of state securities of subjects of the Russian Federation and municipal securities, amendments introduced in the terms of issue and circulation of these securities, as well as on reports of emission

Letter of the Federal Tax Service No. YeD-4-3/20217@ of November 30, 2012 on the recommended forms of documents in the cases of application of the patent system of taxation

Direction of the Central Bank of Russia No. 2926-U of December 3, 2012 on the amendments to Direction of the Bank of Russia No. 2332-U of November 12, 2009 on the list, forms and procedure of drawing up and submission of the forms of reports of credit organisations to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation

Order of the Federal Migration Service, Federal Security Service and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation No. 328/520/18572 of October 17, 2012 on the endorsement of the form of the questionnaire submitted by a foreign citizen or stateless person to the Federal Migration Service to draw up, obtain, prolong or renew the visa

Order of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation No. 706 of October 31, 2012 on the requirements to the format for submission of information specified in the list of information available with the state bodies of subjects of the Russian Federation, bodies of local government, territorial state extra-budgetary funds or organisations participating in provided state or municipal services subordinate to the state bodies of subjects of the Russian Federation or the bodies of local government and necessary for the state services provided by the federal bodies of executive power and bodies of state extra-budgetary funds of the Russian Federation endorsed by Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1123-r of June 29

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1249 of December 3, 2012 on the procedure of state regulation of tariff rates for disposal of radioactive waste

Information of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation of December 10, 2012 on the rate of refinancing and the interest rates for operations of the Bank of Russia

Resolution of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission No. 260 of December 4, 2012 on the amendments to the Joint Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activities of the Customs Union and the Joint Customs Tariff of the Customs Union for up to 32 nm chips and Resolution of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission No. 134 of August 16, 2012 – reduces the rate of import customs duty to 0%

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1263 of December 6, 2012 on the amendments to certain acts of the Government of the Russian Federation – increases the assets of microfinancial and credit organisations for the purpose of antimonopoly control

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1276 of December 10, 2012 on the limiting amount of the base for calculation of insurance contributions to state extra-budgetary funds from January 1, 2013

Direction of the Bank of Russia No. 2930-U of December 10, 2012 on the amendments to Direction of the Bank of Russia No. 2481-U of July 16, 2010 on the procedure for credit organisations to keep and drawn up the cash register of receipts 0401704 and the cash register of expenditures 0401705

Resolution of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission No. 107 of November 23, 2012 on the amendments to the Joint Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activities of the Customs Union and the Joint Customs Tariff of the Customs Union for military transport planes

Order of the Federal Service for Financial Markets No. 12-91/pz-n of October 25, 2012 on the endorsement of the list of foreign stock exchanges and foreign depositary and clearing organisations for qualifying the bonds and other debentures as marketable bonds in compliance with Article 310 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation

Order of the Federal Tax Service No. MMV-7-13/704@ of October 10, 2012 on the endorsement of the form of notification of controlled transactions and a Procedure for the tax body carrying out a tax check to send the notification of controlled transactions to the federal body of executive power in charge of control and supervision over taxes and fees

Order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation No. 204 of July 9, 2012 on the endorsement of the Administrative Regulation of the Federal Service for Supervision over Transport on the execution of the state function of control (supervision) over observance of the legislation of the Russian Federation in the area of highway transport by legal entities, individual entrepreneurs

Direction of the Bank of Russia No. 2929-U of December 10, 2012 on the interest rates for the deposit operations of the Bank of Russia

Resolution of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission No. 265 of December 11, 2012 on the amendments to the Joint Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activities of the Customs Union and the Joint Customs Tariff of the Customs Union for sea ferries and Resolution of the Commission of the Customs Union No. 331 of June 18, 2010

Resolution of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission No. 264 of December 11, 2012 on the rates of import customs duties of the Joint Customs Tariff of the Customs Union for molybdenum ores and concentrates

Letter of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 03-05-04-01/44 of December 11, 2012 – the property tax applies from 2013 to public-use railroad tracks, arterial pipelines and power supply lines.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1305 of December 14, 2012 on the distribution of volumes of additional tariff quotas for meat of bovine animals and poultry in 2012

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1287 of December 12, 2012 on the licensing of activities of purchase, storage, processing and sale of waste of ferrous and non-ferrous metals

Order of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation No. 623 of December 4, 2012 on the restrictions of fishing for individual types of aquatic biological resources in 2012

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1319 of December 17, 2012 on the amendments to the Regulation on the registration and use of cash register equipment used by organisations and individual entrepreneurs – the sign of state register is not used any more

Order of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation No. 1598 of October 30, 2012 on the endorsement of the List of codes of goods according to the Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activities transactions with which are controlled by virtue of Article 105.14 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation

Letter of the Federal Tax Service No. YeD-4-3/21457@ of December 17, 2012 on the information necessary for calculation of the tax on extraction of mineral resources for oil for November 2012

Order of the Federal Service for Regulation of the Alcohol Market No. 351 of November 26, 2012 on the endorsement of the procedure for outfitting the main technological equipment for making ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products with automatic means of measurement and registration of concentration and volume of anhydrous ethyl alcohol in the finished product, the volume of finished product

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 143n of October 31, 2012 on the entry into force of the documents of international standards of financial reports on the territory of the Russian Federation

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 159n of December 13, 2012 on the amendments to the Directions on the procedure for application of the budget classification of the Russian Federation endorsed by Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 180n of December 21, 2011

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 1666 of December 19, 2012 on the strategy of the state national policy of the Russian Federation for the period until 2025

Direction of the Bank of Russia No. 2920-U of December 3, 2012 on the amendments to Regulation of the Bank of Russia No. 254-P of March 26, 2004 on the procedure for credit organisations to form reserves for possible losses for loans, debts in loans and similar debts

Order of the Federal Tax Service No. MMV-7-8/662@ of October 3, 2012 on the endorsement of the forms of document of revealed arrears, demand to pay the tax, fee, penalty, fine, as well as the documents used by tax bodies in the cases of application of provisional measures and collection of debts in obligatory payments to the budget system of the Russian Federation

Order of the Federal Service for Financial Markets No. 12-96/pz-n of November 20, 2012 on the amendments to certain normative legal acts of the Federal Service for Financial Markets

Order of the Federal Service for Financial Markets No. 12-83/pz-n of October 2, 2012 on the requirements to the composition of own resources of clearing organisations

Order of the Federal Agency for State Reserves No. 147 of October 31, 2012 on the endorsement of the form of request for participation in tenders of sale of material values released from the state reserve, its submission and confirmation procedure

Order of the Federal Service for Supervision over Communication, Information Technologies and Mass Communication Infrastructure No. 1132 of October 29, 2012 on the endorsement of the procedure for communication operator broadcasting TV and radio channels under a contract with a broadcasting organisation to submit to the licensing body information on such broadcasting organisation

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1368 of December 21, 2012 on the endorsement of the rates of export customs duties for raw oil and individual categories of goods of oil exported outside the territory of the Russian Federation and the territories of the member-states of the Customs Union agreements

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1358 of December 21, 2012 on the distribution of the volumes of tariff quotas for meat of bovine animals, pork and poultry meat in 2013

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1344 of December 20, 2012 on the endorsement of the limiting (minimum and maximum) values of insurance tariff rates for obligatory insurance of civil liabilities of the carrier for the damage to life, health and property of passengers

Order of the Federal Tax Service No. MMV-7-11/808@ of October 26, 2012 on the amendments to Appendix 3 to Order of the Federal Tax Service No. MMV-7-11/99@ of February 20, 2012 on the endorsement of the form and format for submission of the tax declaration for the transport tax in the electronic form and its filling procedure

Order of the Federal Service for Regulation of the Alcohol Market No. 339 of November 13, 2012 on the procedure for sending the notifications of suspension or renewal of use of the main process equipment for production of ethyl alcohol or alcoholic products using ethyl alcohol

Direction of the Bank of Russia No. 2911-U of November 16, 2012 on the amendments to Appendix 1 to Direction of the Bank of Russia No. 1594-U of July 14, 2005 on the list, forms and procedure of drawing up and submission of reports of liquidated credit organisations to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation

Direction of the Bank of Russia No. 2922-U of December 3, 2012 on the amendments to Regulation of the Central Bank of Russia No. 283-P of March 20, 2006 on the procedure for credit organisations to form reserves for possible losses

Instruction of the Bank of Russia No. 139-I of December 3, 2012 on the obligatory normatives for banks

Order of the Federal Tax Service No. MMV-7-3/957@ of December 14, 2012 on the endorsement of the forms of documents for application of the patent system of taxation

Resolution of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission No. 262 of December 4, 2012 on the amendments to Resolution of the Commission of the Customs Union No. 607 of April 7, 2011 – updates the forms of veterinary certificates

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1378 of December 22, 2012 on the endorsement of the Rules of drawing up of documents to get insurance reimbursement and a preliminary payment under the contract of obligatory insurance of civil liabilities of the carrier for the damage to life, health or property of passengers

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1369 of December 22, 2012 on the rates of export customs duties for semi-finished products of leather

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1346 of December 20, 2012 on the endorsement of the Regulation on the state supervision in the area of advertising

Direction of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation No. 2914-U of November 16, 2012 – adjusts the procedure for making payments of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation for deposits of natural persons in bankrupt banks failing to participate in the system of obligatory insurance of deposits

Order of the Federal Service for Regulation of the Alcohol Market No. 372 of December 13, 2012 on the lowest prices of purchase (other than import), supplies (other than export) and retail sale of alcoholic products stronger than 28 percent

Order of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation No. 568n of December 3, 2012 on the endorsement of the list of professions (occupations, positions) for foreign citizens – skilled specialists employed in their professions (occupations) that are not covered by employment quotas for foreign citizens in the Russian Federation for 2013

Federal Law No. 271-FZ of December 25, 2012 on the amendments to the Housing Code of the Russian Federation and individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation and invalidation of individual provisions of legislative acts of the Russian Federation – financing of overhauls of apartment houses

Federal Law No. 270-FZ of December 25, 2012 on the amendments to the Federal Law on the fund of assistance of reformation of the housing and communal sector – particulars of fund functioning

Federal Law No. 268-FZ of December 25, 2012 on the amendments to the Budget Code of the Russian Federation and individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation on the use of oil and gas incomes of the federal budget

Federal Law No. 267-FZ of December 25, 2012 on the amendments to individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation and invalidation of individual provisions of legislative acts of the Russian Federation – amendments in insurance and banking sectors

Federal Law No. 266-FZ of December 25, 2012 on the amendments to Article 46 of the Federal Law on the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia) – the bank can now open correspondent rouble accounts of foreign central (national) banks

Federal Law No. 263-FZ of December 25, 2012 on the amendment to Article 23 of the Federal Law on the peasant (farmer's) enterprise – such legal entities will exist until 2021

Federal Law No. 262-FZ of December 25, 2012 on the amendment to the Federal Law on the circulation of medicines – registration of medicines is made more stringent

Federal Law No. 260-FZ of December 25, 2012 on the amendment to the Air Code of the Russian Federation – introduces an article on the safety of flights of civil planes

Federal Law No. 259-FZ of December 25, 2012 on the amendments to the Federal Law on the state regulation of production and circulation of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products and on restriction of consumption (drinking) of alcoholic products and Part 2 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation – mead, Perry and cider have the same status as beer

Federal Law No. 256-FZ of December 25, 2012 on the amendments to the Federal Law on popular crafts – measures of protection

Federal Law No. 253-FZ of December 25, 2012 on the amendments to the Federal Law on communication and Articles 333.33 and 333.34 of Part 2 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation – permits to preserve user number while changing the operator

Federal Law No. 249-FZ of December 25, 2012 on the ratification of the Treaty on the countermeasures against legalisation (laundering) of incomes obtained in a criminal way and financing of terrorism in the cases of moving of cash and/or monetary instruments across the customs border of the Customs Union

Decision of the Higher Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation No. VAS-15315/12 of December 21, 2012 – legality of norms on the procedure of calculation of payment for technological connection to power supply networks

Decision of the Higher Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation No. VAS-13348/12 of December 13, 2012 – terms of patentability