Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 3.08.2005

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 462 of July 28, 2005 On Control Over the Activity of Psychiatric and Psycho-Neurological Institutions Providing Psychiatric Aid

In providing psychiatric aid to citizens at said institutions, the duly authorized federal executive bodies and executive power bodies of the subjects of the Russian Federation shall be obligated to exercise control over observance of the procedure for and terms of providing psychiatric aid, organization of supply of medicines and meals to those citizens. Besides, said bodies shall make sure of the availability of a timely, informed and voluntary consent of citizens suffering from mental condition to medical treatment or refusal of same and also of observance of the procedure for appeal against the actions of medical and other personnel of psychiatric and psycho-neurological institutions for rendering psychiatric aid.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 461 of July 28, 2005 On the Program of State Guarantees In Rendering Free Medical Aid To Citizens of the Russian Federation For the Year 2006

The Program specifies types and scope of medical aid to be provided to citizens of the Russian Federation free of charge. The Program includes medical aid to be given within the framework of the basic program of obligatory medical insurance, medical aid to be provided by using the funds of budgets of all levels, norms of the scope of medical aid, norms of financial costs per unit of the scope of medical aid and per capita norms of funding the Program.

Thus, an indicator of the scope of medical aid is shown as the number of calls estimated for one person a year. The norm for calls is 0,318 of the call. The norm for costs for one call of emergency medical aid averages 913,3 Rubles.

The per capita norms of funding the Program are fixed, for one person a year, at 3378 Rubles on the average, including 1 613 Rubles by using the funds of obligatory medical insurance and 1 765 Rubles by using the funds of respective budgets.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation<br><br> No. 452 of July 28, 2005 On Standard Regulations of Internal Organization of Federal Executive Power Bodies

The Standard regulations lay down the organization of activity, structure and staff schedule of the federal executive power body and its territorial bodies, the powers of directors and also rules of interaction between the federal ministry with federal services and federal agencies accountable to it. The standard regulations specify the rules for elaboration of administrative regulations and standards of state services, preparation and adoption of statutory legal acts. It establishes basic rules of organization of document turnover, the specificity of preparation and examination of draft acts and also the procedure for dealing with applications of citizens and organizations.

Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation No. 505 of June 27, 2005 On Engaging the Services To Fulfill the Tasks of the Police of Privates and Commanding Officers of Internal Security Bodies of the Russian Federation Who Are Not Police Officials and Also of Trainees During the Trial Period

Decision to engage the services of the captioned officials and trainees shall be formalized as a legal act (either as an order or directive) to be issued by the head of a relevant subdivision of the internal security body. Prior to being used to fulfill the tasks of the police, those to be so engaged, shall be tested for their knowledge of statutory legal acts regulating the activity of the police associated with protection of life, health, rights and freedoms of citizens and property, the interests of society and the state against criminal and other encroachments, of the procedure for applying, for those purposes in line with federal laws, measures of compulsion, including the use of force, special means and firearms and also for the availability of appropriate skills and abilities.

Registered with the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on July 29, 2005. Registration No. 6845.

Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation No. 507 of June 28, 2005 On Material Stimulation of Individual Categories of Servicemen of Internal Security Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation

As from July 1, 2005 servicemen undergoing military service under a contract, assigned to keep guard as part of internal security guards, guards to keep watch over storehouses and bases of district departments of material-technical and military supplies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, to be on combat duty as part of guards (pickets) to guard important state facilities, under-control zones of closed administrative-territorial entities, crews of launches, groups of divers and commandant's headquarters of facilities shall be paid a pecuniary remuneration. The remuneration shall be paid for each twenty four hours' duty in the amount of the field allowance, for each night duty in the amount of 50% of the field allowance.

Registered with the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on July 29, 2005. Registration No. 6844.

Directive of the Central Bank of Russia No. 1592-Y of July 6, 2005. On Amending Instructions of the Bank of Russia No. 110-I of January 16, 2004 On Obligatory Banking Rates

Amendments shall be made to the content of the groups of assets assessed by banks on the basis of risk classification in estimating H1 rate "The rate of sufficiency of the bank's equity funds (capital)". Credit claims shall be carried from the fourth over in the second group of assets in the part secured with a guarantee deposit placed by the counteragent-legal person with the creditor bank and/or with a deposit of the creditor bank's own debt securities.

It amends the procedure for estimating the H2 rate for the bank's instantaneous liquidity and H3 rate for the bank's current liquidity, also amended shall be the estimation of H6, H7, H9.1, H10.1 and H12 rates.

The directive shall come into force upon the expiration of 10 (ten) days following the day of its official publication in the Bulletin of the Bank of Russia.

Registered with the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on July 28, 2005. Registration No. 6833.

Regulations On the Central Bank of Russia No. 262-P of August 19, 2004 On Identification By Credit Institutions of Customers and Beneficiaries For Purposes of Prevention of the Legalization (Laundering) of Criminally Derived Incomes and the Funding of Terrorism

It establishes an obligation of credit institutions to identify customers and beneficiaries (persons for whose benefit the customers are acting) in carrying out bank operations and other transactions in order to prevent the legalization (laundering) of criminally derived incomes and the funding of terrorism. The credit institution must have a program of identification of the customers and beneficiaries prepared and approved.

To avoid the duplication of functions, credit institutions shall be given the right not to identify beneficiaries in individual cases. Thus, when the customer of credit institution is an organization that is obligated under the Federal law On Prevention of the Legalization (Laundering) of Criminally Derived Incomes and the Funding of Terrorism to identify persons using their respective services (for instance, insurance organizations, professional players in the securities market, brokers in making transactions of purchase and sale of real estate, etc.), the credit institution shall have the right not to identify the beneficiary. The identification shall likewise not be required in respect of state power bodies of the Russian Federation and state power bodies of the subjects of the Russian Federation.

In individual cases it provides for a summary procedure for identification of individuals (for instance, on the basis of the driving license).

The summary procedure shall be applied only in respect of natural persons and individual operations (exchange of currency, transfer of monies without opening a bank account, etc.). Notably, the operation shall not be subject to obligatory control when it is so provided under the Federal law On Prevention of the Legalization (Laundering) of Criminally Derived Incomes and the Funding of Terrorism and also when the family name, first name and (unless otherwise is required under the law or national custom) the patronymic and other data on individual available with the credit institution do not fully coincide with the information contained in the List of extremists.

It establishes that in case of operations handled by an individual associated with payment for housing and public utilities, services of communication and with paying to the budgets of any level, for the amount inferior to 600 000 Rubles or an equivalent amount in foreign currency, identification of natural persons shall not be required.

Credit institutions shall be obligated to provide for compliance with the said requirements in respect of the customers using their services, including the requirements to identify beneficiaries, within one year from the effective date of these Regulations.

The Regulations shall come into effect upon the expiration of 10 (ten) days after its official publication in the Bulletin of the Bank of Russia.

Registered with the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in September 6, 2004. Registration No. 6005.

Letter of the Ministry of Taxation of the Russian Federation No. 24-3-03/571 of August 17, 2004 On Order of the Ministry of Taxation of the Russian Federation No. CAE-3-24/441@ of July 27, 2004 On Approval of the Forms of Documents Containing Data On Bank Accounts of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs

Information of the bank to the taxation body of the opening (closure) of bank accounts and notifications of the bank regarding alteration of numbers of the bank customers' accounts to be formulated by the banks on their own in accordance with the range of numbers given to them and after the forms approved by Order of the Ministry of Taxation of the Russian Federation No. BG-3-24/179@ of March 4, 2004 shall be accepted by the taxation bodies until September 20, 2004 inclusive.

The forms of the said documents given to the banks by the taxation bodies before August 23, 2004 shall be in use until they are completely used up.