Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 7.06.2005

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 627 of June 1, 2005 on the Endorsement of the Regulation on the Operative Territorial Command of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation

The operative territorial command of internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia is a main military and administrative unit of internal troops of the Russian Federation and is intended to fulfil the tasks vested in internal troops.

The operative territorial command includes the bodies of military management, units and institutions of internal troops deployed on its territory, except for the units and institutions of internal troops directly subordinate to the Commander-in-Chief of internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Decisions on the creation, reorganisation and liquidation of operative territorial commands are taken by the President of the Russian Federation at the presentation of the Minister of Internal Affairs.

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

Information Letter of the Presidium of the Higher Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation No. 92 of May 30, 2005 on the Processing of Cases Challenging Property Assessment by an Independent Assessor in the Courts of Arbitration

The challenging of the cost of object of assessment as defined by an independent assessor by filing an independent lawsuit is permitted only if a law or another normative legal act envisage an obligatory assessment of such value for the parties of the transaction, state body, official, bodies of management of the legal entity. In such case, such challenging is permitted only before the moment of conclusion of the contract (issue of the act by the state body or adoption of the decision by the official or the management body of the legal entity).

If the law of another normative act do not envisage the fixing of the cost of the object on the obligatory basis, property assessment is of recommended nature and is not obligatory and, therefore, its independent challenging by filing a separate lawsuit is not permitted.

Information Letter of the Presidium of the Higher Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation No. 91 of May 25, 2005 on Some Issues of Application of Chapter 25.3 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation by Arbitration Courts

Explains individual issues of the judicial practice pertaining to application of Chapter 25.3 "State Duty" of the Tax Code.

In particular, the evidence of payment of the state duty in cashless form is the payment order containing in the field "Written off from the Payer Account" the date of writing off of monetary resources from the payer account and in the field "Bank Remarks" the bank stamp and signature of the executor in charge.

Writs of execution to collect the state duty from the respondents are issued 10 days after the entry of the court ruling in legal force in the absence of information in the file of the payment of the state duty by the payer on the voluntary basis.

The Letter emphasises that applications challenging the decisions and actions (failure to act) of the bailiff are exempted form the state duty.

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 68n of June 3, 2005 on the Procedure of Entry into Force of the Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 57n of April 14, 2005

The Order of the Ministry of Finance of Russia No. 57n of April 14, 2005 on the amendments to the Directions on the procedure of application of the budget classification of the Russian Federation endorsed by the Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 114n of December 10, 2004 is entered into force from the day of its signing.

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 57n of April 14, 2005 on the Amendments to the Directions on the Procedure of Application of the Budget Classification of the Russian Federation Endorsed by the Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 114n of December 10, 2004

Changes the procedure of administration of incomes from the payment of the state duty and registration of expenses for the implementation of the tied federal programs (subprograms).

Section V "Types of Expenses of the Functional Classification of Expenses of the Budgets of the Russian Federation" is extended to include new types of expenses pertaining to the work of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, redemption of the debts of the budgets under obligations arising from the Laws on the rehabilitation of the victims of political repressions, on the donorship of blood and its components, as well as additional monthly material support for some categories of citizens of the Russian Federation in view of the 60th Anniversary of the Victory.

Classification of incomes of the budgets of the Russian Federation shall also include new types of incomes.