Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 6.05.2008

Federal Law No. 59-FZ of May 4, 2008 on the Amendments to Articles 1 and 17 of the Federal Law on the Licensing of Individual Types of Activities

The adopted Federal Law helps combat violations in the sphere of intellectual property.

Federal Law No. 58-FZ of April 29, 2008 on the Amendments to Individual Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation and on Invalidation of Individual Provisions of Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation Pursuant to the Adoption of the Federal Law on the Procedure for Foreign Investments in Economic Companies of Strategic Significance for the Country's Defence and the State Security

The Law of the Russian Federation on subsoil resources is amended where it pertains to the procedure of inclusion of parts of subsoil resources in subsoil resources of federal significance, drawing up of the federal fund of reserved parts of subsoil resources, refining of the authority of the federal and regional bodies of state power in the sphere of regulation of relations of use of subsoil resources, the grounds permitting to use subsoil resources, requirements to users, as well as the terms of contests and auctions.

Federal Law No. 57-FZ of April 29, 2008 on the Procedure for Foreign Investments in Economic Companies of Strategic Significance for the Country's Defence and the State Security

Defines the procedure to make foreign investments in economic companies of strategic significance for the country's defence and the state security.