Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 9.01.2013

Federal Law No. 318-FZ of December 30, 2012 on the amendments to the City Planning Code of the Russian Federation and individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation – connection of objects of capital construction to engineering and technical networks

Federal Law No. 303-FZ of December 30, 2012 on the amendments to Articles 25 and 25.6 of the Federal Law on the procedure to exit the Russian Federation and enter the Russian Federation – employees of large foreign companies investing in Russia can get long-term business visas

Federal Law No. 300-FZ of December 30, 2012 on the ratification of the Agreement on the main principles of the policy in the area of currency regulation and currency control in CIS member-states

Federal Law No. 299-FZ of December 30, 2012 on the ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Belarus on the price (tariff rates) forming procedure for supplies of natural gas to the Republic of Belarus and its transportation over the pipelines on the territory of the Republic of Belarus

Federal Law No. 294-FZ of December 30, 2012 on the amendments to individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation – enhances protection of rights of interest holders in housing construction

Federal Law No. 291-FZ of December 30, 2012 on the amendments to individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation improving regulation of tariff rates in the area of power, heat, gas, water supplies and water disposal

Federal Law No. 287-FZ of December 30, 2012 on the amendments to the Federal Law on the continental shelf of the Russian Federation and the Federal Law on the internal sea waters, territorial sea and the adjacent zone of the Russian Federation – prevention and elimination of oil spills in the sea

Federal Law No. 282-FZ of December 29, 2012 on the amendments to individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation and invalidation of individual provisions of legislative acts of the Russian Federation – improves regulation of relations pertaining to issue of securities

Federal Law No. 280-FZ of December 29, 2012 on the amendments to individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation on the issues of creation of a transparent mechanism of labour remuneration for the heads of state (municipal) institutions and submission of information on incomes, property and proprietary obligations by the heads of these institutions

Federal Law No. 279-FZ of December 29, 2012 on the amendments to Chapter 23 of Part 2 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation – extends opportunities to have exemptions from the tax on incomes of natural persons

Federal Law No. 277-FZ of December 29, 2012 on the amendments to Article 9 of the Federal Law on the organisation and carrying out of the XXII Winter Olympic Games and the XI Winter Paralympic Games of 2014 in the city of Sochi, development of the city of Sochi as a mountain climate resort and on the amendments to individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation and the Code of Administrative Violations of the Russian Federation – introduces administrative responsibility for the speculative sale of tickets to the Olympic Games

Federal Law No. 275-FZ of December 29, 2012 on the state defence orders – improves procedures for the forming, placing and fulfilling of state defence orders

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1443 of December 27, 2012 on the endorsement of the rules of forming and keeping of the federal state information system "Monitoring of Activities of Control and Enforcement Bodies"

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1435 of December 27, 2012 on the federal state supervision over geodesy and cartography

Letter of the Federal Tax Service No. YeD-4-3/22651@ of December 29, 2012 on the application of the norms of Federal Law No. 94-FZ of June 25, 2012 – use of the uniform imputed-income tax on the voluntary basis