Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 6.05.2002

Federal Law No. 42-FZ of April 29, 2002 on the Amendment to the Federal Law on the Minimum Amount of Labour Remuneration

Beginning with May 1, 2002, the minimum amount of labour remuneration is increased to amount to Rbl 450 per month.
The Federal Law is entered into force from May 1, 2002. The text of the Federal Law has not been published officially as of the date of preparation of the monitoring.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 290 of April 30, 2002 on the Licensing of Activities on the Technical Protection of Confidential Information

Defines the licensing procedure for activities of legal entities and independent entrepreneurs in technical protection of confidential information. The licensing applies to the complex of measures and/or services in protection of confidential information against unauthorized access, including the technical channels, as well as against special interference in it for the purposes of destruction, corruption or blocking access to it. The licensing is vested in the State Technical Commission of the President of the Russian Federation. The license is issued for five years, which may be extended at the licensee application according to the procedure envisaged for the drawing up of the license.
The Decision is entered into force 7 days after the day of its first official publication. The text of the Decision has not been published officially as of the date of preparation of the monitoring.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 287 of April 29, 2002 on the Amendments to the List of Commodities Subject to Obligatory Certification, List of Works and Services Subject to Obligatory Certification and the List of Products with Compliance Being Certified with Compliance Declaration

The list of commodities subject to obligatory certification does not include now personal medical kits, spectacle lenses, walking sticks, toilet soap, socks, stockings and gloves, as well as stationery. The list includes medicines for prevention and treatment of diseases.
The Decision reduces significantly the list of works and services subject to obligatory certification preserving the following sections: "Maintenance and Repair of Transport Vehicles", "Retail Trade Services" and "Public Catering Services" and omitting respectively the repair and maintenance of household equipment, dry cleaning, barbers' services, transportation, housing and communal and tourist services.
Compliance of commodities from some of the sections may be confirmed with compliance declaration. The list of products with compliance being confirmed with compliance declaration is extended significantly.
The Decision is entered into force 7 days after the day of its first official publication. The text of the Decision has not been published officially as of the date of preparation of the monitoring.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 285 of April 29, 2002 on the Amendments to the Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 229 of March 23, 2001

The monthly supplement to the state pension (monthly subsistence) of the citizens of the Russian Federation out of the former employees of international organizations within the UN framework is derived from the basic part of the labour pension (earlier, from the minimum amount of the old-age pension).
The Decision is entered into force from the day of its official publication and applies to legal relations emerging from January 1, 2002. The text of the Decision has not been published officially as of the date of preparation of the monitoring.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 283 of April 29, 2002 on the Endorsement of the List of Materials for Production of Medical Immunobiological Preparations for Diagnostics, Prevention and/or Treatment of Infections Diseases Imported to the Customs Territory of the Russian Federation with Exemption from the Value Added Tax

The value added tax does not apply to the import to the territory of the Russian Federation of immunal sera, marmosets, roller bottles for cell cultivation and other.
The Decision is entered into force from the day of its official publication. The text of the Decision has not been published officially as of the date of preparation of the monitoring.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 282 of April 29, 2002 on the Criteria of Qualifying the Agricultural Organizations as Agricultural Organizations of Industrial Type

Agricultural organizations of industrial type include agricultural organizations (poultry factories, greenhouse integrated works, animal breeding complexes and other):
    that do not use agricultural lands for their agricultural production;
    with the portion of fodders grown on the agricultural lands in their possession, ownership and/or use and used for own production of animal breeding products is less than 20% of the total volume of the used fodders.
The mentioned organizations are not being the payers of the uniform agricultural tax according to Article 346.2 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation.
The Decision is entered into force 7 days after the day of its first official publication. The text of the Decision has not been published officially as of the date of preparation of the monitoring.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 280 of April 29, 2002 on the Amendments to the Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 192 of March 7, 2001

Decision No. 192 endorsing the procedure of reimbursement in 2001 from the federal budget of the part of expenses in payment of the interest on credits obtained in Russian credit organizations by agricultural producers, enterprises and organizations of the agroindustrial complex is extended for the year 2002 and subsequent years.
The Decision is entered into force 7 days after the day of its first official publication. The text of the Decision has not been published officially as of the date of preparation of the monitoring.

Letter of the Ministry of Taxation of the Russian Federation No. NA-6-21/528 of April 23, 2002 on the Regular Payments for the Use of the Mineral Resources

Explains the particulars of filling out column "Purposes of Payment" of the form of estimate of regular payments for the use of mineral resources.
Regular payments for the use of mineral resources are collected only for those types of uses listed in the Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 926 of December 2001 endorsing the minimum and maximum rates.
If the license for the use of mineral resources does not show the genetic type of the deposit or says that the works are aimed at exploration of the parent deposits, the rates for precious metals apply. All other cases envisage the rates of regular payments specified for the placer deposits of mineral resources of all kinds.