Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 14.05.2004

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 580 of May 5, 2004 on the Endorsement of the List of Dual-Purpose Commodities and Technologies That May Be Used to Create Armaments and Military Equipment Subject to Export Control

Endorses the new list of dual-purpose commodities and technologies that may be used to create armaments and military equipment subject to export control. The earlier endorsed list (with amendments) is invalidated.

The Decree is entered into force three months after the day of its official publication.

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 38n of April 13, 2004 on the Endorsement of the Procedure of Preliminary Expert Evaluation of the Values Included in the State Fund of Russia

Defines the rules, terms and procedure of carrying out of the preliminary expert evaluation of included in the State Fund of the Russian Federation precious metals and stones, as well as items, waste and scrap of them.

The preliminary expert evaluation is carried out when the values are received in the State Depository of Russia during processing, acceptance and sorting. Part of the values revealed during the preliminary expert evaluation may be included in the Diamond Fund of Russia after their submission to the appropriate expert commission of the Ministry of Finance of Russia.

The expert evaluation is arranged through determination of the types and names of items, types and composition of the precious metals, their weight, and if there are inserts of precious and semi-precious stones in the items - determination of their type, colour, defects, type and form of cutting, weight. Compliance with available standards or other normative and technical documents is revealed.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on May 12, 2004. Reg. No. 5787.

Letter of the Ministry of Taxation of the Russian Federation No. 33-0-11/281 of April 9, 2004 on the Application of Cash Registers When Accepting Metal Scrap from the Population accepting metal scrap from the population. <br> <br> Thus, payments in cash when accepting metal scrap from the population must be made using cash registers. <br>

Explains that the Federal Law No. 54-FZ of May 22, 2003 on the application of cash registers in payments in cash and/or using pay cards does not envisage exemption from the use of cash registers for organisations and independent entrepreneurs accepting metal scrap from the population.

Thus, payments in cash when accepting metal scrap from the population must be made using cash registers.