Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 19.03.2002

Federal Law No. 30-FZ of March 14, 2002 on the Bodies of Judicial Community of the Russian Federation

The judicial community of the Russian Federation is formed by the judges of the federal courts of all types and levels, judges of the courts of the subjects of the Russian Federation comprising the judicial system of the Russian Federation. The highest body of the judicial community is the All-Russia Congress of Judges. Other bodies are conferences of the judges of the subjects of the Russian Federation, the Council of the Judges of the Russian Federation, councils of the judges of the subjects of the Russian Federation, general meetings of the judges of the courts, the Higher Qualification Board of the Judges of the Russian Federation and qualification boards of the judges of the subjects of the Russian Federation. The Federal Law regulates the procedure of election of the members of the judicial community, their authority, time of authority as well as the proceedings in the qualification boards of judges and other.
The earlier created qualification boards of the judges of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, subjects of the Russian Federation, military districts, groups of forces and fleets, Higher Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation and other arbitration courts, as well as examination commissions shall continue to execute their functions before the new qualification boards of judges and examination commissions are formed, however, not later than September 19, 2002.
The Federal Law is entered into force from the day of its official publication. The text of the Federal Law is published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta on March 19, 2002, No. 48.

Federal Law No. 29-FZ of March 14, 2002 on the Amendment to Article 37 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation

Provides the new wording for Article 27 "Necessary Defence" of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. It is not a crime to incur damage on the offending person in the state of necessary defence, i.e. when defending the personality and rights of the defending person or other persons, protected by law interests of the society or the state against publicly dangerous offence if this offence is associated with violence dangerous for the life of the defending or other person or with direct threat of use of such violence. Protection against offence not associated with such violence is legitimate if the limits of the necessary defence were not exceeded, i.e. wilful actions failing to correspond clearly to the nature and danger of the offence.
The Federal Law is entered into force from the day of its official publication. The text of the Federal Law is published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta on March 19, 2002, No. 48.

Order of the Ministry of Taxes and Revenues of Russia No. BG-3-05/49 of January 1, 2002 on the Endorsement of the Form of Advance Payments for the Uniform Social Tax and Procedure for Filling It Out

Endorses the form of advance payments for the uniform social tax for organizations, independent entrepreneurs and natural persons not being independent entrepreneurs effecting payments to natural persons and the procedure for filling it out.
Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on March 14, 2002. Reg. No. 3288.

Letter of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 16-00-14/42 of February 8, 2002

Explains the issue of registration in accounting records of the results of reassessment of the objects of fixed assets as of the first of the reporting year. The given results are registered in accounting records in between the reports and are taken into account when forming the data as of the beginning of the reporting year. If the results of the reassessment are to be qualified as the financial result of activities of the organization, appropriate records are made in accounting documents in between the reports in correspondence with the account used to enter undistributed profit of the organization. The amount entered on the account for undistributed profit of the organization must be described in the accounting reports of the organization.

Treaty on the Termination of the Treaty on the Distribution of the Sphere of Reference and Authority between the Bodies of State Power of the Russian Federation and the Bodies of State Power of the Samara Province (Moscow, February 22, 2002)

Beginning with March 16, 2002, terminates the treaty signed on August 1, 1997 in Moscow because of the fulfilment of its goal.
The text of the Treaty is published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta on March 16, 2002, No. 47.

Treaty on the Termination of the Treaty on the Distribution of the Sphere of Reference and Authority between the Bodies of State Power of the Russian Federation and the Bodies of State Power of the Sakhalin Province (Moscow, March 4, 2002)

Beginning with March 16, 2002, terminates the treaty signed on May 29, 1996 in Moscow because of the fulfilment of its goal.
The text of the Treaty is published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta on March 16, 2002, No. 47.

Treaty on the Termination of the Treaty on the Distribution of the Sphere of Reference and Authority between the Bodies of State Power of the Russian Federation and the Bodies of State Power of the Ivanovo Province (Moscow, February 26, 2002)

Beginning with March 16, 2002, terminates the treaty signed on May 20, 1998 in Moscow because of the fulfilment of its goal.
The text of the Treaty is published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta on March 16, 2002, No. 47.