Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 3.09.2002

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 654 of August 31, 2002 on the Procedure of Forming, Placing and Spending of the Reserve of Resources for Obligatory Social Insurance against Industrial Accidents and Occupational Diseases

The insurance reserve is formed by the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation at the expense of the residue of insurance resources as of the beginning of the current year, additional insurance incomes in excess of the incomes amounts fixed in the Federal Law on the budget of the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation and resources obtained from insurance reserves placed in high-liquidity state securities of the Russian Federation. The insurance reserve is spent exclusively to pay out insurance support in cases of unforeseen circumstances having caused reduction of receipts of insurance contributions or growth of expenses in such payments and, therefore, the deficit of insurance resources.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 651 of August 31, 2002 on the Partial Changes to the Customs Tariff of the Russian Federation

Changes temporarily the rates of import customs duties for some commodities from the heading of organic chemical compounds. Reduces three times the duties for panty hose and tights for varicose veins. The new rates are introduced for 9 months.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 649 of August 30, 2002 on the Amendments to the Regulation on the Ministry of Taxation of the Russian Federation

Amends the Regulation on the Ministry of Taxation of the Russian Federation endorsed by the Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 783 of October 16, 2000 stipulated by the Ministry of Taxation of the Russian Federation being empowered with authority of state registration of legal entities.
The tax bodies are empowered with the following functions:
state registration of legal entities by entering into the state register of information on the creation, reorganization and liquidation of legal entities;
keeping according to established procedure of the Joint State Register of Legal Entities;
execution within their sphere of reference of control over observation of legislation of the Russian Federation in the sphere of state registration of legal entities.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 635 of August 28, 2002 on the Invalidation of Some of the Normative Legal Acts of the Government of the Russian Federation Pursuant to the Entering into Force of the Code of the Russian Federation of Administrative Violations

Abandons a number of Decisions of the Government of the Russian Federation regulating the procedure of imposing fines for violations in the sphere of construction, as well as the procedure of indexing and use of the amounts of these fines.
The list of the sources of financing of the property of the Fire Safety Fund does not include now the resources obtained from fines in the sphere of fire safety.

Letter of the Ministry of Taxation of the Russian Federation No. AS-6-06/1243@ of August 14, 2002 on Individual Issues of Application of the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Violations When Implementing Control over Execution of the Law of the Russian Federation No. 5215-1 of June 18, 1993 on the Use of Cash Registers in Monetary Payments with Population

Article 14.5 of the Code of Administrative Violations of the Russian Federation institutes administrative responsibility for the sale of commodities, carrying out of works or rendering services without cash registers. The Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 745 of July 30, 1993 endorses the Regulation on the use of cash registers in monetary payments with population. Failure to observe the procedure of use of cash registers specified in the given Regulation is a violation specified in Article 14.5 of the Code of Administrative Violations of the Russian Federation. Such violations include the following:
use of unregistered cash registers;
use of cash registers with missing or damaged seals or labelling;
use of defective cash registers;
other violations.