Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 29.08.2003

Order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation No. 176 of August 14, 2003 on the Amendments to the Order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation No. 110 of October 2, 2000

Specifies that the rate of the fee is fixed for 100 km of the distance calculated proceeding from the great circle of the flight of the air vessel (per 100 aircraft-kilometres) different for the internal and international flights and from the maximum take-off weight of the air vessels. The basic cost of the fee rate does not include the costs of aeronautical services in the vicinity of the airport.
Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on August 27, 2003. Reg. No. 5013.

Order of the Committee of the Russian Federation for Financial Monitoring No. 103 of August 11, 2003 on the Amendments to the Regulation on the Form of the Written Requests and the List of Officials Entitled to Send Requests to Credit Organisations Endorsed by the Order of the Committee for Financial Monitoring of Russia No. 102 of December 24, 2002

Interregional departments of the Committee for Financial Monitoring of Russia are empowered with authority to send written requests to credit organisations to provide information, including documents or their copies, pertaining to operations subject to obligatory control under the Law on the countermeasures against legalisation (laundering) of incomes obtained in a criminal way.
Such written requests contain a reference to the appropriate Order of the Committee for Financial Monitoring of Russia, with the content of the Order not being disclosed.
Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on August 27, 2003. Reg. No. 5012.

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 79n of August 21, 2003 on the Endorsement of the Typical Form of the Agreement of the Mutual Certification of Signatures

According to the agreement, the Pension Fund of Russia orders the organisation to accept the application of the insured to choose the investment portfolio (management company), identify the insured, certify the validity of his signature on the application and send the application to the Pension Fund of Russia.
Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on August 27, 2003. Reg. No. 5011.

Decision of the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation No. 87 of July 29, 2003 on the Endorsement of the Methodology Directions on the Cameral Checks of Insurers in Obligatory Social Insurance and Obligatory Social Insurance against Industrial Accidents and Occupational Diseases

Specifies uniform requirements to the cameral checks of insurers in obligatory social insurance and obligatory social insurance against industrial accidents and occupational diseases carried out by the executive bodies of the Social Insurance Fund of Russia, drawing up and implementation of the results of these checks.
The cameral check is carried out by the officials assigned by the head of the executive body of the Social Insurance Fund of Russia without any special decision. The check of the reports is carried out within two months from the day of submission of the reports by the insurer to the Social Insurance Fund of Russia, and the cameral check when resources are allocated to the insurers, within 10 days from the day of submission of all necessary documents by the insurer.
Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on August 27, 2003. Reg. No. 5009.

Direction of the Central Bank of Russia No. 1319-U of August 13, 2003 on the Amendments to the Instruction of the Bank of Russia No. 96-I of December 28, 2000 on the Special, Type S Accounts of Non-Residents

Makes more stringent the requirements to credit organisations opening type S accounts of non-residents. According to the amendments, the opening of the mentioned accounts for non-residents and carrying out of operations on them is permitted only to the banks possessing the general license for the bank operations and having concluded the contract for the dealer functions at the bonds market with the Bank of Russia.
Type S account now does not include sections "Securities Blocked for Subsequent Transfer to the Main Section of the Custody Account" and the "State Securities Blocked for Subsequent Transfer of the Receipts from Their Sale (Redemption) to the Special, Type S Account of the Non-Resident".
Omits the provision stating that in case of violation by the non-resident of the normative documents regulating operations at the market of short-term state bonds and the bonds of the federal loans, his operations may be suspended for up to 3 months.
The time of keeping of the resources of the non-resident on the transit account is reduced from 30 to 2 calendar days from the day of transfer of the resources on this account.
Provides estimates of the permitted for transfer amount of the monetary resources obtained in the form of dividends from stocks, interest from bonds, income from couponless bonds.
The Direction is entered into force 10 days after the day of its official publication in the Herald of the Bank of Russia.
Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on August 26, 2003. Reg. No. 5004.

Letter of the Ministry of Taxation of the Russian Federation No. 05-2-06/186-AA884 of August 1, 2003 on the Offsetting of the Uniform Social Tax

Explains that the special procedure of offsetting of the amounts of the uniform social tax paid in 2002 by the payers of the uniform imputed income tax specified in Article 5 of the Federal Law No. 104-FZ of July 24, 2002 was applied only in 2002. Beginning with 2003, there is a common procedure of offsetting - return specified in Articles 78-79 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation. The offset procedure - return of the uniform social tax by the payers transferred to the uniform imputed income tax may be different.