Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 5.03.2025

Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 470-r of February 28, 2025: the Cabinet of Ministers established the criterion for classifying organisations as agro-aggregators. A criterion has been determined envisaging that organisations whose main activities relate to the circulation of farm products must meet in order to provide them with state support measures, if they are recognised as agro-aggregators.

Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 446-r of February 26, 2025: foreign agents must open special accounts with Sberbank.

Information from the Federal Antimonopoly Service, dated March 1, 2025: FAS reminds retail chains of the need to review supply agreements

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 239 of February 28, 2025 - on amending Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1901 of November 1, 2021: introduction of new gas supply rules has been postponed again. The new gas supply rules to come into force on September 1, 2025 (not on March 1, 2025, as it was previously provided for)

Order of the Federal Tax Service No. ED-7-14/1119@ of December 10, 2024 - on amending Appendix No. 1 to Order of the Federal Tax Service No. ED-7-14/1268@ of December 28, 2022: the list of grounds for verifying the reliability of information included into the Unified State Register of Legal Entities has been shortened.