Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 7.02.2006

Federal Law No. 20-FZ of February 2, 2006 on the Amendments to Some of the Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation on Servicewomen

The amendments unify terminology used in the legislation of the Russian Federation on servicewomen. The term "servicewomen" in a number of laws is replaced with the term "female staff".

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 63 of February 2, 2006 on the Amendments to the Decisions of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 830 of November 30, 2001 and No. 1364 of December 9, 1999 Pertaining to Firewood

Adjusts the codes, names of headings and the rates of customs duties pertaining to firewood. The mentioned commodities shall be imported using the rate of 15% of the customs cost and exported using the rate of 0% (for firewood in the form of logs up to 1 m long or split logs) and the rate of 6.5, however, not less than EUR 4 per cubic meter (for limbs, fagotwood).

The Decision is entered into force 2 months after the day of its official publication.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 60 of February 2, 2006 on the Endorsement of the Regulation on the Social Hygienic Monitoring

The social hygienic monitoring is arranged to provide for the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population. The social and hygienic monitoring is a state system of monitoring, analysis, assessment and forecasting of the health of population and the environment, as well as determination of the causal links between the condition of the health of the population and the impact on it of environmental factors to take measures to eliminate an adverse influence of the mentioned factors. The monitoring shall be arranged by the Federal Service of Enforcement in the Sphere of Protection of Consumer Rights and Human Well-Being together with other federal bodies of executive power in charge of the state sanitary and epidemiological enforcement.

Order of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation and the Administration of the Special Economic Zone Nos. 857-VS/D12, 4-r of January 26, 2006 on the Determination of the Origin of Individual Commodities Imported to the Customs Territory of the Russian Federation from the Special Economic Zone in the Kaliningrad Province

When qualifying the products of meat processing classified in headings 0201, 0202, 0203, 0204, 0205, 0207 of the Foreign Trade Commodity Nomenclature as originating in the special economic zone of the Kaliningrad Province, operations of mixing of poultry meat, including the mechanical boning, or animal meat with spices and/or vegetable proteins and /or salt, meat salting by pumping, operations of meat cutting, as well as operations of making of poultry meat of mechanical boning are not considered to meet the criteria of enough processing.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on February 2, 2006. Reg. No. 7441.

Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation No. 1175 of December 31, 2005 on the Amendments to the Normative Legal Act of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia

The amendments introduced in the manual of highway patrol of the Highway Traffic Inspection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia pertain to the procedure of moving of foreign citizens and stateless persons on the territory of the Russian Federation. The mentioned persons may travel free within the boundaries of the Russian Federation except for the territories, organisations and objects requiring special permissions for entry in compliance with the legislation of the Russian Federation. In this case, the foreign citizen must carry a personal identification document specified in the federal law or recognised in compliance with an international treaty of the Russian Federation as a personal identification document, as well as a visa and the migration card in certain cases.

If a foreign citizen wishes to visit territories, organisations and objects requiring special permission in compliance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, he must carry appropriate documents with him.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on February 2, 2006. Reg. No. 7440.

Order of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation No. 14 of January 25, 2006 on the Endorsement of the Rules of Sending of Confirmation of Entry of Information on the Alcoholic Products in the Joint State Automatic Information System of Registration of the Volume of Production and Circulation of Ethyl Alcohol, Alcoholic and Alcohol-Containing Products and of the Notification of the Refusal to Enter the Mentioned Information

Confirmation of the entry of submitted information on the imported alcoholic products in the joint information system shall be sent by the customs body no later than within 10 working days from the date of accepting of the request to enter the mentioned information.

The same time limit is specified for the customs body to send a notification of refusal to enter such information to the organisation engaged in import of alcoholic products to the Russian Federation, if insufficient or incorrect information is found in the request, with a motivation of the reasons of refusal.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on February 1, 2006. Reg. No. 7436.

Order of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation No. 13 of January 25, 2006 on the Endorsement of the Format of Information on the Labelled Alcoholic Products Entered in Excise Duty Stamps That Can Be Read Using Technical Means of the Joint State Automatic Information System of Registration of the Volume of Production and Circulation of Ethyl Alcohol, Alcoholic and Alcohol-Containing Products

Information on the labelled alcoholic products is entered in excise duty stamps in Russian in the form of a two-dimensional bar code. The Order lists information to be entered in excise duty stamps.

The two-dimensional bar code is entered in the stamp in the format providing for the reading of information on the labelled alcoholic products using technical means of the joint state automatic information system.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on February 1, 2006. Reg. No. 7435.

Order of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation No. 8 of January 10, 2006 on the Endorsement of the Classification of the Types of Economic Activities by Professional Risk Classes

The classification distributes the types of economic activities by classes depending on professional risk (from 1 to 32). The first class includes: extraction of natural gas and gas condensate; printing; publishing; production of steam and hot water (thermal power) in boilers; agentship in wholesale trade of foodstuffs and other. 32nd class includes: hunting and wild animal breeding; coal extraction; extraction of ores of non-ferrous metals; extraction and enrichment of tin ore and other.

According to the Statement of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation No. 01/598-YeZ of January 30, 2006, the Order does not need the state registration.