Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 11.02.2002

Letter of the Committee for Financial Monitoring of the Russian Federation No. 06-03-27/65 of January 29, 2002

Pending the approval by the Government of the Russian Federation of the procedure for provision of information to the Committee for Financial Monitoring of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as the Committee for Financial Monitoring of Russia) by organizations handling operations with monetary assets or other property, the letter provides a form to be used to prepare data on the said operations to be further forwarded to the Committee for Financial Monitoring of Russia. The said data shall be submitted in compliance with the Federal Law On the Prevention of Legalization (Laundering) of Incomes Derived By Criminal Means.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 85 of February 7, 2002 On the Introduction of Amendments in Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1364 of December 9, 1999

The rates of export customs duties for nickel stein, sinters of nickel oxides and other by-products of nickel metallurgy (code under Commodity Classification of Foreign Economic Activity 7501) and also raw nickel (code under Commodity Classification of Foreign Economic Activity 7502) shall be reduced by two-fold to be fixed at 5 per cent of their customs value.
The Decision shall take effect in a month's time as from its official publication.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 81 of February 6, 2002 On the Introduction of Changes and Amendments in the Rules of Sale of Individual Types of Goods and the List of Non-food Products of Appropriate Quality Not To be Returned or Exchanged for Similar Goods of Other Size, Form, Dimension, Pattern or Completeness

It substantially amends the rules of retail trade conducted at the place of purchaser's stay outside stationary places of trade: at one's place of residence, work or studies, in transport, in the street and at other places (hereinafter referred to as delivery trade). When effecting delivery trade, it is prohibited to sell food products (except for ice-cream, soft drinks and beer, confectioneries and bakeries in a manufacturer's package), medicines, articles of precious metals and gems, weapons and cartridges thereto. Seller's agent shall, when conducting trade of that kind, have a personal card certified with the signature of an issuing person and a seller's stamp, bearing a holder's photo and indicating a full name of the seller's agent as well as data of the seller. The seller's agent shall also have a duly certified list of prices indicating description and prices of goods and also services offered. In the delivery trade, along with the goods the purchaser shall be given a commodity receipt which shall indicate name of the goods and data on the seller, date of sale, number and price of goods and shall also bear a signature of the seller's agent. In case of return of goods of inappropriate quality, failure of the purchaser to produce a cash or commodity receipt or other document testifying to the fact and conditions of purchase of the goods shall not be used as a pretext to refuse to satisfy his claims nor shall it deprive him of the possibility to refer to witnesses' testimony to confirm the conclusion of a contract and its conditions. It establishes peculiarities of sale of building supplies, furniture, liquefied hydrocarbon gas, non-periodicals and also second-hand non-food products.
The List of non-food products of appropriate quality not to be returned or exchanged for similar goods shall include non-periodicals (books, booklets, albums, cartographic and music publications, etc.) and also domestic gas equipment and devices.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 80 of February 6, 2002 On Issues of State Regulation of Auditor's Activity in the Russian Federation

It approves the Rules of Exchange of Auditor's Qualifying Certificates issued prior to entry into effect of the Federal Law On the Auditor's Activity, for certificates envisaged under the said Federal Law. The Rules shall take effect as from May 1, 2002. The exchange shall be made by the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation which has been designated to be an authorized body in charge of state regulation of auditor's activities. The exchange shall be accomplished at no charge at the request of an auditor without conducting any repeat certification. It enumerates cases when the qualifying certificate shall not be exchanged.