Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 16.06.2010

Decision of the Commission of the Customs Union of the Eurasian Economic Community No. 257 of May 20, 2010 on the Instructions for Completing Customs Declarations and on the Forms of Customs Declarations

The Agreement on the Customs Code of the Customs Union will enter into force starting from July 1, 2010. In connection with it, the form of the commodity declaration has been established. The instructions have been endorsed as to entering data to the commodity declaration. The legislation of member states of the Customs Union may introduce additional requirements for completing individual columns of the commodity declaration.
A single commodity declaration shall be used for declaring data on the commodities pertaining to the same shipment which are subjected to the same customs procedure. Data on the commodities pertaining to the same shipment may be declared in several commodity declarations filed with the same customs authority, except when commodities are deemed to be components of something which is presented in an unassembled or dismantled form.
The maximum quantity of commodities that may be declared in the commodity declaration shall be 1000 items.
The commodity declaration consists of basic and supplementary sheets (blank forms). It shall be filed in 4 copies.
When completing the commodity declaration, its electronic copy shall be formed.
The Instructions and the form shall enter into force starting from 2010. Before it, the forms of customs declarations (documents) and the rules for completing them, which are established by the legislation of member states of the Customs Union, shall apply.

Order of the Ministry of Affairs of Civil Defence and Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation No. 185 of April 19, 2010 on Amending the Regulations on Arranging the Supply to the Population of Individual Protection Equipment endorsed by Order of the Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation No. 993 of December 21, 2005

The Order specifies the way of supplying individual protection means to the population.
The federal executive power bodies shall reserve individual protection means for their officials and employees of subordinate state-financed organizations (before it was also done for their family members).
Regional authorities shall also supply individual protection means to children of preschool age, trainees and unemployed persons which reside in a constituent entity of the Russian Federation. Previously it was done for the population of a given area. Before the Ministry of Affairs of Civil Defence and Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation participated in supplying individual protection means to some categories of the population - children; unemployed pensioners and persons residing close to radiation-dangerous, chemically and biologically hazardous facilities - on account of the federal budget. It shall not be done from now on.
The list of areas whose residents are to be provided with individual protection means in war time has been reduced. Now it does not comprise inhabited localities with the facilities which are crucial for national security.