Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 30.01.2004

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 40 of January 23, 2004 on the Non-Application of the Rate of the Import Customs Duty for Aluminium Oxide Other Than Artificial Corundum

The rate of the import customs duty endorsed by the Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 830 of November 30, 2001 does not apply for aluminium oxide other than artificial corundum (code according to the Foreign Trade Commodity Nomenclature of the Russian Federation 2818 20 000 0).
The Decision is entered into force one month after the day of its official publication for 9 months.

Order of the State Customs Committee of the Russian Federation No. 1583 of December 31, 2003 on the Kimberley Process Certificates and the Certificates of Export of Untreated Natural Diamonds

The customs bodies specified as the places of declaring of precious metals and stones are ordered to carry out the customs registration of untreated natural diamonds in the obligatory presence of the Kimberley process certificate (in cases of import) and the certificate of export of untreated natural diamonds (in cases of export) confirming that the exported (imported) consignment does not contain diamonds originating in the conflict zones.
The mentioned customs bodies must control the return to the country of the export of imported consignments of untreated natural diamonds when they are declared without the Kimberley process certificate under the reexport customs regime under the condition of the presence of information on the country of destination in the customs declaration matching the information on the country of dispatch in the transportation or commercial documents in cases of import.
Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on January 28, 2004. Reg. No. 5491.

Regulation of the Central Bank of Russia No. 242-P of December 16, 2003 on the Organisation of Internal Control in Credit Organisations and Bank Groups

Introduces the rules of organisation of internal control in credit organisations and bank groups, as well as defines the particulars of the procedure of supervision of observation of the mentioned rules by the Bank of Russia.
The bodies of internal control shall include: bodies of management of the credit organisation, audit commission (auditor), manager and chief accountant (their deputies) of the credit organisation and their branches, service of internal control (internal audit), official (structural division) in charge of the combating of legalisation (laundering) of incomes and other bodies (controller of the professional participant of the securities market, official in charge of the legal issues).
The Regulation provides recommendations on control measures carried out by the management bodies over organisation of activities of the credit organisation. Also provides the list of the main issues pertaining to internal control requiring adoption of internal documents. Specifies that the credit organisation must have plans of actions for the cases of unexpected circumstances. Internal documents must define the procedure of checking of these plans for opportunities of their execution in cases of unexpected circumstances, as well as the list of unexpected circumstances requiring adoption of plans of actions.
To assess the condition of internal control, the credit organisations shall submit the certificate drawn up according to the attached form to the territorial institution of the Bank of Russia in the framework of the annual report.
The Regulation 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 January 27, 2004. Reg. No. 5489.

Order of the State Fishery Committee of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 28/11/4n of January 23, 2004 on the Endorsement of the Typical Regulation on the Procedure and Terms of Determination in the Subjects of the Russian Federation Adjacent to the Sea Coast of Allocated to the Applicants Shares for the Catching (Extraction) of Water Biological Resources for the Purposes of Coastal Fishing

Specifies the procedure and terms of determination in the subjects of the Russian Federation adjacent to the sea coast of the allocated to the Russian applicants shares for the catching (extraction) of water biological resources for the purposes of coastal fishing, for industrial purposes in the internal sea waters, in the territorial sea of the Russian Federation, on the continental shelf and in the exclusive economic zone in the Baltic and the Black Seas, as well as in the Azov and the Caspian Seas and the downstreams of rivers falling into the seas. Lists the documents submitted by the applicant wishing to determine the shares for the purposes of coastal fishing.
The shares allocated to the applicant are determined as the ratio of the sum of quotas for the catching (extraction) of each type of water biological resources allocated to the applicant for industrial purposes, in the frame work of scientific programs and resource research plans purchased at auctions in the previous three years to the total volume of quotas allocated to all applicants in the same regions of activities for the same period.
Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on January 23, 2004. Reg. No. 5487.

Letter of the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation No. 02-18/05-8139 of December 15, 2003 on the Blank Form of the Disability Sheet

Conveys the new specimen of the disability sheet to be made from the I quarter of 2004 for use in practical work. The blank form is being brought in compliance with the actual normative acts on assigned and calculated temporary disability, maternity allowances.
The earlier issued blank forms may be used by the medical treatment and prevention institutions together with the new blank forms.