Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 31.03.2005

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 363 of March 30, 2005 on the Measures to Improve Material Status of Some Categories of Citizens of the Russian Federation in View of the 60th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45

From May 1, 2005, invalids, individual categories of participants of the Great Patriotic War, former underage prisoners of concentration camps, ghettos and other places of detention shall get an additional monthly material support in the amount of Rbl 1,000.

Additional monthly material support in the amount of Rbl 500 is introduced for individual categories of persons having undergone military service in the years of war, widows of servicemen diseased during the Great Patriotic War, war with Finland, war with Japan, widows of diseased invalids of the Great Patriotic War, persons awarded with the badge "Resident of Blockaded Leningrad, former adult prisoners of nazi concentration camps, prisons and ghettos.

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

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 165 of March 29, 2005 on the Endorsement of the Rules of Accreditation of the Bodies Providing Certification, Test Laboratories (Centres) Providing Certification Testing of the Means of Communication

Defines the procedure of accreditation of legal entities, independent entrepreneurs as the bodies providing certification, test laboratories (centres) providing certification testing of the means of communication and issue of the accreditation certificate.

The accreditation is vested in the Federal Communication Agency.

Accreditation documents issued before July 1, 2003 to the bodies providing certification, test laboratories (centres) providing certification testing of the means of communication shall preserve their force until expiry.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 161 of March 28, 2005 on the Endorsement of the Rules of Connection of Telecommunication Networks and Their Interaction

Specifies the procedure of connection of telecommunication networks (other than communication networks for TV and radio broadcasting) and their interaction with a network of a major telecommunication operator in a public-use communication network, as well as significant terms of connection of telecommunication networks and their interaction.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 160 of March 28, 2005 on the Endorsement of the Rules of Granting Credits to the Budgets of the Subjects of the Russian Federation from the Federal Budget to Cover Temporary Cash Gaps in Execution of the Budgets of the Subjects of the Russian Federation and Expenses Pertaining to Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, As Well As of Use and Return of the Mentioned Budget Credits by the Budgets of the Subjects of the Russian Federation

A temporary cash gap in the execution of the consolidated budget of the subject of the Russian Federation is defined as underpaid incomes in a certain period of the fiscal year necessary for the implementation of expenses envisaged in the consolidated budget of the subject of the Russian Federation taking into account the sources of financing of the budget deficit. In the presence of or predictable temporary cash gap, the body of executive power of the subject of the Russian Federation may apply to the Ministry of Finance of Russia to get the budget credit. Budget credits are provided for a period less than a fiscal year using the interest rate specified under the federal law on the federal budget for the current fiscal year. Budget credit may not be granted to the subject of the Russian Federation with an overdue debt in budget loans and credits received earlier from the federal budget.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 159 of March 28, 2005 on the Endorsement of the Rules of Spending and Registration of Resources for the Granting of Subventions from the Federal Budget to the Budgets of the Subjects of the Russian Federation to Implement the Federal Authority of the State Registration of Acts of Civil Status

Defines the procedure of spending and registration of resources for the granting of subventions from the federal budget to the budgets of the subjects of the Russian Federation to implement the federal authority of the state registration of acts of civil status.

Direction of the Central Bank of Russia No. 1548-U of February 7, 2005 on the Procedure of Opening (Closing) and Organisation of Work of a Mobile Cash Station of a Bank (Branch)

Specifies the procedure of opening, closing, as well as organisation of work of the mobile cash station of a bank, the list of operations to be carried out in it, as well as the requirements to its technical strength and outfit.

Mobile cash station is intended to provide bank services for the population on the territories featuring underdeveloped bank infrastructure, in hard-to-access and underpopulated regions, where the creation of stationary divisions of credit organisations is unprofitable and providing bank services to the population is insufficient and difficult. Mobile cash station is an internal structural division of the bank operating on the basis of a motor vehicle and intended for cash operations involving natural persons (residents and non-residents) except for independent entrepreneurs.

The bank (branch) may arrange the work of the mobile cash station in residential settlements numbering up to 10,000 persons, in the places of work of rotational teams or in field (expeditionary) conditions, as well as at customs stations - within the territory covered by the territorial institution of the Bank of Russia supervising the work of the given bank (branch).

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 March 28, 2005. Reg. No. 6438.

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation and the Federal Tax Service Nos. 28n, SAE-3-10/58 of February 25, 2005 on the Endorsement of the Periods, Time Limits and Form of Submission of Information in Compliance with the Rules Endorsed by the Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 410 of August 12, 2004

Endorses the structure and format of information transmitted in the electronic form by the departments of the Federal Tax Service of Russia in the subjects of the Russian Federation to the financial bodies of the subjects of the Russian Federation and by inspections of the Federal Tax Service of Russia to financial bodies of local administrations.

Also endorses the structure and format of information transmitted in the electronic form by financial bodies of the subjects of the Russian Federation to the departments of the Federal Tax Service of Russia in the subjects of the Russian Federation and by financial bodies of local administrations to inspections of the Federal Tax Service of Russia.

Submission of information by the departments of the Federal Tax Service of Russia in the subjects of the Russian Federation to financial bodies of the subjects of the Russian Federation shall be arranged from January 1, 2005 on the monthly basis as of the 1st until the 15th of the following month. Submission of information by inspections of the Federal Tax Service of Russia to financial bodies of local administrations shall be arranged from January 1, 2006 on the monthly basis as of the 1st until the 15th of the following month.

Submission of information by financial bodies of the subjects of the Russian Federation to the departments of the Federal Tax Service of Russia in the subjects of the Russian Federation and by financial bodies of local administrations to inspections of the Federal Tax Service of Russia shall be arranged in the periods and time limits specified in the Order.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on March 24, 2005. Reg. No. 6419.

Letter of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 03-06-05-04/49 of March 3, 2005 on the Payers of the Uniform Imputed-Income Tax

The trade outlet located in the building unfit for retail trade shall be regarded as an object of a mobile trade network. In this case, calculation of the uniform imputed-income tax is done using the figure of basic profitability-trade outlet.