Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 31.01.2012

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1092 of December 22, 2011 on the Procedure for Submission to the Registration Body by Other State Bodies of Information in the Electronic Form Necessary for the State Registration of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs, As Well As for Keeping the Joint State Registers of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs

Specifies the procedure for information interaction of tax bodies with other agencies.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1081 of December 22, 2011 on the Licensing of Pharmacy Activities

Endorses a new such regulation.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1132 of December 26, 2011 on the Amendments to Certain Acts of the Government of the Russian Federation on the Issues of Submission of Notifications of the Starting of Individual Types of Entrepreneurial Activities

The list of works and services requiring submission of the notification has been extended.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1130 of December 26, 2011 on the Licensing of Activities of Organisation and Carrying out of the Games of Chance in Bookmaker Offices and Sweepstakes

Specifies a new such procedure.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1083 of December 22, 2011 on the Procedure of Financial Support in 2012 of Preventive Measures to Reduce Industrial Injuries and Occupational Diseases of Employees and Sanatorium and Resort Treatment of Employees Engaged in Works with Adverse and/or Hazardous Industrial Factors

Specifies the procedure for interaction of the Social Insurance Fund and the Ministry of Public Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1230 of December 30, 2011 on the Amendments to the Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 786 of December 21, 2005

Introduces a special type of excise duty stamps for imported alcoholic items up to 9% strong.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1186 of December 28, 2011 on the Suspension of Decisions of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 307 of April 7, 2009 and No. 86 of February 24, 2010

Shifts until January 1, 2014 the entry into force of the technical regulations on the safety of products for children and equipment for work in explosive environments.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1139 of December 26, 2011 on the Endorsement of the Rates of Export Customs Duties for Raw Oil and Individual Categories of Goods of Oil Exported Outside the Territory of the Russian Federation and the Territories of the Member-States of the Customs Union Agreements

Reduces the above rates from January 1, 2012.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1129 of December 26, 2011 on the Forming, Placing and Spending of the Reserve for Obligatory Social Insurance Against Industrial Accidents and Occupational Diseases for 2012 and for the Planned Period of 2013 and 2014

Specifies the above procedure.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1085 of December 22, 2011 on the Licensing of Activities of Collection of Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Their Precursors, Cultivation of Narcotic-Containing Plants

Specifies the above procedure.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1080 of December 21, 2011 on the Investing of the Temporarily Available Resources of the State Corporation, State Company

Specifies the above rules.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1079 of December 21, 2011 on the Calculation of the Demand for Special Federal Stamps and on the Amendments to the Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 785 of December 21, 2005

Specifies the procedure for calculation of the demand of the organisation producing alcoholic items for the special stamps.

Letter of the Federal Tax Service of Russia No. YeD-4-3/22628@ of December 30, 2011 on the Application of the Uniform Imputed-Income Tax in the Cases of Sale of Goods to State-Run Institutions, As Well As for the State or Municipal Needs

The above tax may be applied in the cases of retail trade.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1184 of December 28, 2011 on the Measures to Transfer Federal Bodies of Executive Power and Bodies of State Extra-Budgetary Funds to Interagency Information Interaction in the Electronic Form (Not Yet Entered into Force)

Specifies the above rules.

Decision of the Plenum of the Higher Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation No. 81 of December 22, 2011 on Certain Issues of Application of Article 333 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation

Prepares explanations on application of the norms of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation on the reduction of forfeit by courts.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1084 of December 22, 2011 on the Coefficient of Indexing of the Amount of Monthly Insurance Payment in the Cases of Obligatory Social Insurance against Industrial Accidents and Occupational Diseases

The monthly payments in the cases of injury or occupational disease are increased 1.06 times from January 1, 2012.

Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 2415-r of December 28, 2011 on the Amendments to the Orders of the Government of the Russian Federation

All state and municipal services will be provided in the electronic form by 2014, if such form is not prohibited.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1248 of December 30, 2011 on the Amendments to the Rules of Preparation by the Bodies of State Control (Supervision) and Bodies of Municipal Control of the Annual Plans of Planned Checks of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs

Changes the above procedure.

Order of the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation No. 562 of December 9, 2011 on the Normative of the Cost of 1 Square Meter of Total Dwelling Space for the First Six Months of 2012 and the Average Market Cost of 1 Square Meter of Total Dwelling Space by the Subjects of the Russian Federation for the I Quarter of 2012

The normative is fixed in the amount of Rbl 31,300.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1225 of December 30, 2011 on the Licensing of Activities of Installation, Technical Maintenance and Repair of the Means of Fire Safety of Buildings and Structures

Introduces a new such procedure.

Information of the Federal Customs Service of December 27 "Information on the Products Requiring Obligatory Confirmation of Compliance When Placed under the Customs Regimes Envisaging Opportunities of Alienation or Use According to Their Destination on the Customs Territory of the Russian Federation, Indicating the Codes of the Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activities of the Customs Union"

Updates the above information.

Order of the Judicial Department of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation No. 232 of December 19, 2011 on the Amendments to the Instruction on the Proceedings in the Regional Court

Introduces a new procedure for acceptance and processing of appeals in civil cases.

Letter of the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation No. 14-03-18/04-16256 of December 28, 2011 on the Amendments to the Procedure of Filling of the Form of Estimate Introduced by the Order of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Development of Russia No. 1385n of November 22, 2011

The Ministry of Public Health and Social Development of Russia changed the filling procedure of Form-4 FSS.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1239 of December 30, 2011 on the Endorsement of the Rules of Replacement of Products of Processing with Equivalent Foreign Goods in the Cases of Processing of Goods Outside the Single Customs Territory of the Customs Union, If the Processing Operations Include Paid-For Repair Works, As Well As in the Cases of Moving of Goods of the Customs Union within the EurAsEC by the Pipeline Transport

Specifies the procedure for obtaining a permission of the tax body.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1214 of December 30, 2011 on the Amendments to the Rates of Payment for the Unit of Volume of Forest Resources and the Rates of Payment for the Unit of Area of the Forest Site Available in the Federal Property

Adjusts the above figures.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1205 of December 30, 2011 on the Expert Evaluation for the Purpose of Confirmation of the Fact of Insured Case and Determination of the Amount of Damage Incurred on the Insurant under the Contract of Agricultural Insurance

Examines the cases of state support of agricultural insurance.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1137 of December 26, 2011 on the Forms and Rules of Filling (Keeping) of Documents Used in the Calculation of the Value Added Tax

Endorses new forms of invoices.

Order of the Federal Service for Financial Markets No. 11-65/pz-n of December 6, 2011 on the Provided Information on Securities and Derivative Financial Instruments

Specifies the persons authorised to provide the above information.

Order of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation No. 1355n of November 15, 2011 on the Endorsement of the Procedure for a Non-State Pension Fund Engaged in Obligatory Pension Insurance to Notify the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation and the Federal Service for Financial Markets of the Newly Concluded Contracts for Obligatory Pension Insurance

Introduces new such rules.

Order of the Federal Tax Service No. MMV-7-6/790@ of November 21, 2011 on the Amendments to the Orders of the Federal Tax Service No. MM-7-6/475® of September 28, 2009 and No. MMV-7-6/362@ of June 9, 2011

Specifies the procedure for legal entities and individual entrepreneurs to report to tax bodies information on the emerged right of use of corporate electronic means of payment.

Resolution of the Commission of the Customs Union No. 901 of December 9, 2011 on the Adjustment of the Rates of Import Customs Duties of the Joint Customs Tariff of the Customs Union for Individual Types of Apple Mash, Including Stewed Fruits, and Concentrated Apple Juices

Introduces on a temporary basis the zero rate of import customs duties in the above cases.

Resolution of the Commission of the Customs Union No. 900 of December 9, 2011 on the Amendments to the Joint Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activities of the Customs Union and the Joint Customs Tariff of the Customs Union for Butadiene and the Butylene-Butadiene Fraction

Reduces the rates of import customs duties from January 2, 2012.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1249 of December 30, 2011 on the Measures of Implementation of the Federal Law on the Federal Budget for the Year 2012 and for the Planned Period of 2013 and 2014

The state support of a number of sectors of economy is continued.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1245 of December 30, 2011 on the Amendments to the Rules of Obligatory Insurance of Civil Liabilities of Owners of Transport Vehicles

New features in the above area.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1243 of December 30, 2011 on the Amendments to the List of the Types of Goods Requiring Information on the Energy Efficiency Class in the Technical Documentation Supplied with These Goods, Their Labels

Provides a new wording of the above list.

Order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation No. 320 of December 19, 2011 on the Endorsement of the Rules of Filling of the Diagnostics Card

The rules of filling of the diagnostics card for vehicles after technical examination.

Order of the Federal Service for Supervision over Education and Science No. 2267 of October 25, 2011 on the Endorsement of the Criteria of Figures Necessary for Determination of the Type of Institution of Higher Professional Education and Secondary Professional Education (not yet entered into force)

Specifies the above figures.

Letter of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 02-04-09/6082 of December 30, 2011 on the Application of the Budget Classification of Russia in 2012

Letter of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 02-04-09/6082 of December 30, 2011 on the Application of the Budget Classification of Russia in 2012

Letter of the Federal Tax Service No. OA-4-13/85@ of January 12, 2012 on the Price-Forming Agreements for Taxation Purposes

Examines the above procedures.

Order of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation No. 1227n of October 31, 2011 on the Endorsement of the Administrative Regulation for the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation on the Provided State Service of Acceptance of the Report (Estimate) Submitted by the Persons Having Engaged on a Voluntary Basis in Relations of Obligatory Social Insurance for the Cases of Temporary Disability and Maternity (Form-4a FSS RF)

Specifies the above procedure.

Order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation No. 319 of December 14, 2011 on the Endorsement of the Procedure for Outfitting Transport Vehicles in Operation with Technical Means of Control of Observance of Motion, Work and Rest Regimes by Drivers (not yet entered into force)

Certain categories of transport vehicles require installation of control devices.

Order of the Ministry of Mass Communications of the Russian Federation No. 298 of November 3, 2011 on the Endorsement of the Administrative Regulation for the Ministry of Mass Communications on the Provided State Service of State Accreditation of Organisations Engaged in Activities in the Area of Information Technologies

Specifies the procedure for obtaining state accreditation.

Order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation No. 293 of November 25, 2011 on the Endorsement of the Federal Aviation Rules "Organisation of Air Traffic in the Russian Federation"

Endorses the above rules.

Order of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation No. 1325n of November 7, 2011 on the Endorsement of the Administrative Regulation on the Execution by the Federal Service for Labour and Employment of the State Function of Federal State Supervision of Observance of the Requirements for Implementation of the Rights of Employees for Support in the Cases of Obligatory Social Insurance against Industrial Accidents and Occupational Diseases, As Well As a Procedure for Assigning, Calculation and Paying out of Temporary Disability Allowances at the Expense of Employers

The Federal Service for Labour and Employment supervises the paying out of temporary disability allowances at the expense of employers.

Letter of the Federal Tax Service No. YeD-4-3/355@ of January 17, 2012 on the Application of the Legislation of the Russian Federation on Taxes and Fees

The uniform imputed-income tax is still preserved in 2012.

Letter of the Department of the Tax and Customs Tariff Policy of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 03-02-07/1-430 of December 13, 2011 on the Measures Taken by a Taxpayer to Substantiate His Carefulness and Deliberation in the Choice of Partners, on the Taxpayer Responsibility, If His Partner Appeared to Be a Fly-by-Night Company

The taxpayer is considered to be careful, if otherwise is not proved.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1178 of December 29, 2011 on the Price Forming in the Area of Regulated Prices (Tariff Rates) in the Electric Power Supply Industry

Specifies fundaments of price forming in the above area.

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 180n of December 21, 2011 on the Endorsement of the Directions on the Procedure for Application of the Budget Classification of the Russian Federation

Endorses the above directions.

Information of the Federal Tax Service of December 27, 2011 on the Tax Declaration for the Transport Tax for the Year 2011

Particulars of filling of the declaration for the transport tax for the year 2011.

Order of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation No. 1128n of October 3, 2011 on the Endorsement of the Administrative Regulation of the Federal Service for Supervision over Public Health and Social Development on the Execution of the State Function of Control of Application of Prices for Medicines Included in the List of Vital and Most Important Preparations

Specifies the above procedure.

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 132n of October 17, 2011 on the Endorsement of the Administrative Regulation for the Federal Tax Service on the Execution of the State Function of Control and Supervision of Observance of Requirements to Cash Registers, Procedure and Terms of Their Registration and Use

Specifies the above procedure.

Order of the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation No. 591 of December 21, 2011 on the Endorsement of the Regulation on the Information Disclosed by Organisations Engaged in Activities of Management of Apartment Houses by Its Publication in the Internet (not yet entered into force)

Specifies the procedure for management companies to place information on their activities on the official Internet site.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1179 of December 29, 2011 on the Determination and Application by Guaranteed-Supply Companies of Non-Regulated Prices for Electric Energy (Power)

Endorses the above rules.

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 123n of October 4, 2011 on the Endorsement of the Administrative Regulation on Execution by the Federal Tax Service of the State Function of Control of Currency Operations Carried out by Residents and Non-Residents Not Being Credit Organisations or Currency Exchanges

Specifies the above procedures

Order of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation No. 456 of December 30, 2011 on the Endorsement of the Administrative Regulation on Execution by Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation of the State Function of Control of Compliance of Activities of Non-Commercial Organisations with the Chartered Goals and Tasks, Branches and Representations of International Organisations, Foreign Non-Commercial Non-Governmental Organisations with Declared Goals and Tasks, As Well As of Observance of the Legislation of the Russian Federation by Them

Specifies the above procedures.

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 133n of October 17, 2011 on the Endorsement of the Administrative Regulation on Execution by the Federal Tax Service of the State Function of Control and Supervision of Completeness of Registration of Receipts of Monetary Resources in Organisations and with Individual Entrepreneurs

Specifies the above procedures.

Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation No. 2895 of December 28, 2011 on the Endorsement of the Procedure for Admission of Citizens in Institutions of Higher Professional Education

Introduces new such rules.

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 185n of December 26, 2011 on the Determination of the Code of Raw Oil in the Cases of Application of the Tax Exemption for the Tax on Extraction of Mineral Resources

Specifies the code of the Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activities of the Customs Union applied in the cases of tax exemption.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 9 of January 26, 2012 on the Control and Supervision in the Area of Legal Protection and Use of Results of Intellectual Activities of Civil Destination Created at the Expense of the Federal Budget, As Well As Control and Supervision in the Specified Area of Activities for State Ordering Parties and Organisations Executing State Contracts Envisaging Research, Design and Technological Works

A new procedure for control of protection and use of results of intellectual activities of civil destination created at the expense of the federal budget.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 7 of January 26, 2012 on the Amendments to the Regulation on the State Control of International Road Transportation

Adjusts the above regulation.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 3 of January 25, 2012 on the Endorsement of the Rates of Export Customs Duties for Raw Oil and Individual Categories of Goods of Oil Exported Outside the Territory of the Russian Federation and the Territories of the Member-States of the Customs Union Agreements

The rates for oil and oil products are reduced from February 1, 2012

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 24 of January 26, 2012 on the State Information System

Endorses the rules of creation and functioning of the state information system in the area of mass media.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 21 of January 26, 2012 on the Additional Requirements to Bookmaker Offices, Sweepstakes, Their Stakes Acceptance Points

The Government introduces requirements in addition to the law on the state regulation of games of chance.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1216 of December 30, 2011 on the Licensing of Activities in the Area of Hydrometeorology and Adjacent Areas (Other Than the Mentioned Activities Carried out in the Course of Engineering Surveys for Preparation of Design Documentation, Construction, Reconstruction of Objects of Capital Construction), As Well As the Works of Active Interference in the Hydrometeorological and Geophysical Processes and Phenomena

Specifies the above procedures.

Direction of the Central Bank of Russia No. 2767-U of December 28, 2011 on the Amendments to the Regulation of the Bank of Russia No. 203-P of November 5, 2002 on the Procedure for the Central Bank of the Russian Federation to Carry out Deposit Operations with Credit Organisations in the Currency of the Russian Federation

Adjusts the above regulation.

Order of the Federal Tax Service No. MMV-7-3/928@ of December 16, 2011 on the Endorsement of the Form and Format for Submission of the Tax Declaration for the Tax on Extraction of Mineral Resources in the Electronic Form and Its Filling Procedure

Updates the above form.

Direction of the Central Bank of Russia No. 2763-U of December 23, 2011 on the Amendments to the Direction of the Bank of Russia No. 2538-U of December 13, 2010 on the Accounting Procedure for the Authorised Banks (Branches) for Individual Types of Bank Operations with Foreign Currencies in Cash and Operations with Checks (Including the Traveller's Checks) in Foreign Currencies Involving Natural Persons (not yet entered into force)

Refines the above procedure.