Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 1.09.2008

Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1240-p of August 25, 2008

Starting from 2008, the telephone number 112 shall be used as the uniform one for calling emergency services all over the territory of the Russian Federation. Such services include the fire-fighting service, militia, emergence medical care service, the emergency gas circuit service, as well as the counterterrorism service and the emergency response service. The Conception of Establishing the System of Calling Emergency Services by Using the Uniform Number 112 on the Base of Unified Dispatcher Services of Municipal Entities has been approved.
The System-112 is being established for the purpose of speeding up the response and improving the interaction of the aforesaid services when answering calls or accepting reports concerning incidents from the population. This uniform number will make it possible for a person in case of an incident not to think twice what kind of service it is appropriate to call to and what telephone number should be dialed. It is planned, along with answering calls from the population, to render the required psychological support to the caller. All received information shall be analysed and forwarded to appropriate dispatcher services. This system shall likewise provide for automatic detection of the caller's number and redial in case of an abrupt communication breakup, for answering calls in 5 foreign languages at the administrative center of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation (in other municipal entities) and so on. The System-112 is based on typed standard program technological complexes and appropriate communication facilities.
It is planned to establish and develop the System-112 by two stages: in 2008-2009 and in 2009-2012. The complete programme of activities aimed at the Conception's implementation is already composed.

Letter of the Department of Tax and Customs Tariff Policy of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 03-01-15/9-294 of August 20, 2008

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation hereby explains that organisations and individual businessman engaged in rendering services to the population are entitled to use self-made registered high-security forms for making settlements of accounts in cash and/or for making settlements of accounts through the use of payment cards without cash registers.
Such forms shall contain the requisite elements established by the Regulations on Making Settlements of Accounts in Cash and/or Settlements of Accounts through the Use of Payment Cards without Cash-Registers (approved by Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 359 of May 6, 2008). The endorsement of the cited forms by authorised federal executive bodies shall not be required.