Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 6.03.2007

Federal Law No. 28-FZ of March 3, 2007 on the Removal of Provisional Clauses to Some International Treaties

To reinforce the intentional legal basis for the combating of terrorism, removes provisional clauses introduced by the USSR when signing a number of anti-terrorist international treaties: Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft, Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents, Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, International Convention against the Taking of Hostages.

Federal Law No. 27-FZ of March 3, 2007 on the Ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the French Republic on the Long-Term Cooperation in the Sphere of Development, Creation and Use of Carrier Missiles and the Placing of Carrier Missile Soyuz-ST in the Guiana Outer Space Centre

The ratified agreement envisages an extended cooperation of Russia and France in the modernisation of the space centre in the French Guiana and its use for carrier missiles Soyuz ST to launch space vessels in the framework of the state programs of the Russian Federation and France.

Federal Law No. 26-FZ of March 3, 2007 on the Ratification of the Agreement between the Russian Federation and the European Community on the Readmission

Ratifies the Agreement between the Russian Federation and the European Community on the readmission signed in Sochi on May 25, 2006.

Order of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation No. 15 of January 24, 2007 on the Invalidation of the Order of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia No. 186 of August 10, 2005 on the Requirements to the Description of Individual Categories of Commodities in Column 31 of the Cargo Customs Declaration

Invalidates the Order of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia envisaging additional requirements to the description of individual categories of commodities in Column 31 of the cargo customs declaration "Cargo Items and Description of Commodities" containing information on the declared commodities permitting to identify the commodities and include them in one of the 10-digit classification codes of the Foreign Trade Commodity Nomenclature of Russia, as well as information on the cargo items.
      Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on March 1, 2007. Reg. No. 9004.