Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 2.06.2004

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 701 of May 28, 2004 on the Invalidation of Some of the Acts of the President of the RSFSR and the President of the Russian Federation

Pursuant to the adoption of the Federal Law No. 131-FZ of October 6, 2003 on the general principles of organisation of local government in the Russian Federation invalidates a number of acts of the President of the RSFSR and the President of the Russian Federation.

The Decree is entered into force from the day of its signing.

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 699 of May 28, 2004 on the Endorsement of the Regulation on the State Legal Department of the President of the Russian Federation

The State Legal Department of the President of the Russian Federation is an independent division of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation. The Decree lists the main tasks and functions of the Department.

The Decree is entered into force from the day of its signing.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 260 of June 1, 2004 on the Procedural Rules of the Government of the Russian Federation and the Regulation on the Office of the Government of the Russian Federation

Specifies the new rules of organisation of activities of the Government of the Russian Federation in implementation of their authority. Defines the procedure of planning, preparation and holding of sessions, drawing up of adopted decisions, introduction and processing of draft acts, work on the appeals of citizens and other issues.

Endorses the new Regulation on the Office of the Government of the Russian Federation. The Office is a state body created to ensure activities of the Government of the Russian Federation and arrange control over execution of their adopted decisions by the bodies of executive power.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 252 of May 27, 2004 on Some Issues of Organisation of Activities of the Federal Service of Enforcement in the Sphere of Public Health and Social Development, Federal Service of Labour and Employment and the Federal Agency of Public Health and Social Development

The Federal Service of Labour and Employment assumes control over the territorial bodies of the abandoned Ministry of Labour of the Russian Federation in charge of employment of population, state enforcement and control over observation of the legislation of the Russian Federation on labour and labour safety (state labour inspections in the subjects of the Russian Federation, interregional state labour inspections) and of resolving of collective labour disputes, as well as the centres of employment of population.

The Federal Agency of Public Health and Social Development assumes control over the supervised by the abandoned Ministry of Labour of the Russian Federation other state institutions and federal state unitary enterprises.

Order of the State Customs Committee of the Russian Federation No. 570 of May 14, 2004 on the Amendments to the Order of the State Customs Committee of Russia No. 915 of August 21, 2003

Amends the procedure of filling of the cargo customs declaration. Refines the notion of the "single commodity consignment" in cases of import to the customs territory of the Russian Federation. Specifies that an electronic copy of the cargo customs declaration must be made when filling it. If the declaring party wishes so, it may get the software in the customs body free of charge permitting to fill out the cargo customs declaration and to make its electronic copy, or the customs body provides a special computer with installed necessary software.

The Instruction is extended to include the new section defining the rules of filling of the cargo customs declaration when declaring the Russian-made commodities placed under the duty-free trade customs regime. When declaring the mentioned commodities, the lists of commodities may be used instead of the additional sheets in the form of the inventories, specifications, packing sheets under the condition that these lists contain information necessary for the customs purposes: names of commodities, ten-digit classification codes, quantity in the main and additional units of measurement and the customs cost.

The Order is entered into force 90 days after the day of its official publication.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on June 1, 2004. Reg. No. 5808.

Order of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation No. 107 of May 25, 2004 on the Endorsement of the Instruction on the Procedure of Handing out to Possessors of Rights to Their Written Applications of Copies of Contracts and Other Documents Describing the Essence of Unilateral Deals Committed in the Simple Written Form

Specifies the rules of handing out by the judicial institutions in charge of the state registration of the rights for immovable property and deals with it of copies of contracts, as well as other documents, describing the essence of unilateral deals committed in the simple written form. Defines the procedure of processing of applications to get a copy of the contract and to make a copy of the contract, as well as the reasons of refusal to hand out a copy of the contract and the procedure of drawing up of the notification of the refusal to hand out a copy of the contract.

The payment for the handed out copies of contracts is collected in the amounts specified by the subjects of the Russian Federation, however, within the limits of the maximum amounts of payment defined in the Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 248 of February 26, 1998.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on June 1, 2004. Reg. No. 5805.