Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 30.06.2014

Decision of the Collegium of the Eurasian Economic Commission No. 77 of May 26, 2014 continuing step-by-step reduction of import duties by amending the commodity classification and the customs tariff of the Customs Union in line with Russia's obligations within the WTO

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 491 of May 29, 2014 amending the rules for the registration for migration purposes of foreign citizens and stateless persons in Russia

Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation No. 546 of May 16, 2014 on certificates of higher education for Crimean graduates

Orders of the Bank of Russia Nos. R-399 and R-400 of May 17, 2014 on new documents governing bank's information security

Letter of the Bank of Russia No. 92-t of May 21, 2014 setting criteria for detecting banks' high degree of involvement in dubious transactions

Decision of the Higher Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation No. VAS-15607/13 of May 26, 2014 invalidating the norm of administrative rules concerning preliminary decisions on classification of goods according to the commodity classification of the Customs Union

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 504 of June 2, 2014 establishing the definition of "gross violation" of the terms of a state contract relating to a state defence order

Federal Constitutional Law No. 9-FKZ of June 4, 2014 amending the Federal Constitutional Law on the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation to improve the operation of the court and the procedures implemented to hear cases therein

Federal Constitutional Law No. 8-FKZ of June 4, 2014 amending the Federal Constitutional Law on Arbitration Courts in the Russian Federation and Article 2 of the Federal Constitutional Law on the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in connection with the merger of the Higher Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation whereby the former is abolished

Federal Law No. 143-FZ of June 4, 2014 changing the jurisdiction covering some categories of cases and amending some pieces of legislation due to the merger of the Higher Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 140-FZ of June 4, 2014 modifying the contract-based system of purchase of goods, works and services for state and municipal needs

Federal Law No. 138-FZ of June 4, 2014 on Ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Cooperation in the Field of Exploration and Use of Outer Space for Peaceful Purposes

Order of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation No. 833 of May 5, 2014 on the list of state-supported complex investment projects in the high-priority areas of civil industry

Order of the Federal Tax Service No. MMV-7-7/53@ of February 17, 2014 endorsing new regulations governing the operation of the Federal Tax Service

Federal Law No. 151-FZ of June 4, 2014 amending the Tax Code, for instance relieving from value added tax certain materials used in R & D

Federal Law No. 149-FZ of June 4, 2014 concerning electronic interaction in insurance business and the operation of the Crimean financial system

Federal Law No. 147-FZ of June 2014 amending legislation on the status of foreign agent for not-for-profit organisations

Federal Law No. 146-FZ of June 4, 2014 amending legislation to allow "against all" vote in municipal elections

Federal Law No. 142-FZ of June 4, 2014 vesting in Russian citizens the duty to inform authorities about their citizenship of another state

Order of the Federal Service on Alcohol Market Regulation No. 129 of May 6, 2014 concerning declarations of the amounts of output, turnover and use of ethanol, alcohol products and alcohol-containing products

Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union of May 29, 2014 concluded by Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus

Decision of the Collegium of the Eurasian Economic Commission No. 87 of June 3, 2014 amending the commodity classification and the customs tariff of the Customs Union in respect of certain types of oil/gas purification equipment

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 512 of June 4, 2014 endorsing rules for paying out remuneration for work-for-hire inventions, useful models and industrial design

Order of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation No. 77 of April 10, 2014 updating the procedure for telecom operators to keep separate records of incomes and expenses when they provide subscriber lines for permanent use

Order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation No. 342 of November 6, 2013 updating the forms of international motor road carriage permits

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 513 of June 4, 2014 announcing state quotas for the production, storage and import/export of drugs and psychotropic substances and expanding the lists thereof

Direction of the Bank of Russia No. 3219-U of March 31, 2014 introducing new formalities applicable when a credit organisation turns into a non-banking one or the type of a non-banking credit organisation is changed

Direction of the Bank of Russia No. 3229-U of April 5, 2014 setting out a procedure whereby a bank is informed that its operations have the features causing a ban on the bank's raising funds from natural persons and opening and keeping bank accounts for natural persons

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 510 of June 3, 2014 setting out rules for concluding by means of bidding concession agreements and leases in the field of heat and water supply and water-disposal

Order of the Federal Road Agency No. 168 of May 23, 2014 imposing temporary restrictions on the movement of vehicles on federal public motor roads in 2014

Order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation No. 7 of January 15, 2014 setting up new safety rules for passenger and cargo carriage by motor road and urban electricity-powered transport facilities

Order of the Federal Service on Alcohol Market Regulation No. 151 of May 21, 2014 modifying the provisions governing the technical facilities used in the production and circulation of ethanol, alcoholic products and alcohol-containing product

Order of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation No. 88 of February 25, 2014 introducing a new form of the technical layout of an installation required for cadastral purposes and a procedure for drawing it up

Information Notice of the Bank of Russia of June 16, 2014 setting the key rate of the Bank of Russia and assessing the prospects of economic development in Russia

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 537 of June 9, 2014 improving the procedure for selecting and implementing top-priority investment forestry projects

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 535 of June 9, 2014 on the details of accreditation of foreign organisations in the national accreditation system

Order of the Federal Tariffs Service No. 101-e/3 of April 28, 2014 concerning the rates of charge for the technological connection of gas-using equipment to gas distribution networks

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 545 of June 13, 2014 endorsing rules for confirmation of the origin of oil and other hydrocarbon raw materials from sea fields to qualify for exemption from export customs duty and for getting the exemption

Information Notice of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation No. b/n of June 19, 2014 on export customs duties on oil and certain petroleum products for July 1 through 31, 2014

Letter of the Federal Tax Service No. GD-4-3/11642@ of June 17, 2014 on the data required for the purpose of computation of mining tax on oil for the month of May, 2014

Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation No. 255 of April 1, 2014 setting levels of the command of Russian as foreign language for foreigners to qualify for Russian citizenship

Order of the Federal Migration Service No. 379 of May 26, 2014 setting out details of the procedure for deeming a foreign citizen or stateless person native speaker of Russian

Order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation No. 124 of May 12, 2014 amending the federal aviation rules that govern air traffic in Russia

Order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation No. 484 of December 24, 2013 regulating the working hours of motor vehicle drivers

Decision of the Presidium of the Intellectual Rights Court No. SP-21/4 of March 28, 2014 on disputes concerning domain names and trademarks

Statement on Issues of Non-Bona Fide Conduct, Including Competition, in the Acquisition and Use of Means of Individualisation of Legal Persons, Goods, Works, Services and Enterprises endorsed by Decision of the Presidium of the Intellectual Rights Court No. SP-21/2 of March 21, 2014

Order of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation No. 131 of June 17, 2014 endorsing new forms of notices of the mortgage of immovable property

Federal Constitutional Law No. 10-FKZ of June 23, 2014 setting up a commercial court of appeals for the judgements of the courts of the Crimea and Sevastopol

Federal Law No. 171-FZ of June 23, amending the Land Code of the Russian Federation and some laws to streamline the procedure for the grant of land plots which are under state or municipal ownership

Federal Law No. 169-FZ of June 23, 2014 amending the legislation concerning the insurance of the borrower and the creditor relating to a mortgage scheme

Federal Law No. 168-FZ of June 23, 2014 on toll for lorries to travel on public federal motor roads

Federal Law No. 167-FZ of June 23, 2014 amending Part 2 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation concerning personal income tax and profit tax and setting a uniform procedure for designating a tax agent

Federal Law No. 166-FZ of June 23, 2014 amending Parts 1 and 2 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation in respect of personal income tax

Federal Law No. 164-FZ of June 23, 2014 amending the legislation on the legal status of foreign citizens in Russia to set up criteria for deeming foreigners "high-qualification specialists" for IT companies

Federal Law No. 160-FZ of June 23, 2014 amending some legislative acts concerning accreditation in the national accreditation system and product certification

Federal Law No. 157-FZ of June 23, 2014 setting out terms for grant of Russian citizenship to large-scale foreign investors, persons with Russian educational background and foreigners and stateless persons deemed native speakers of Russian

Decision of the Plenum of the Higher Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation No. 33 of May 30, 2014 on certain issues arising with arbitration courts when they process the cases of collection of value added tax

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 579 of June 23, 2014 on the amendments to Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1177 of December 17, 2013 – carrying children by buses

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 566 of June 19, 2014 on the amendments to certain acts of the Government of the Russian Federation on the issues of sale of gas in the Russian Federation

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 556 of June 17, 2014 on the amendments to the typical charter of the housing construction co-operative created to provide dwelling space to individual categories of citizens envisaged in the legislation of the Russian Federation

Information of the Federal Agency for Tourism of June 23, 2014 for tourists going to or having arrived to the Crimean Federal District

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 577 of June 21, 2014 on the amendments to certain acts of the Government of the Russian Federation – rules of internal control

Order of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation No. 202 of April 11, 2014 on the endorsement of the Administrative Regulation of the Federal Security Service on the provided state service of licensing of activities of enterprises, institutions and organisations carrying out works associated with the use of information comprising state secrets, creation of the means of protection of information, as well as the measures and/or services of protection of state secrets

Regulation of the Bank of Russia No. 422-P of June 11, 2014 on the procedure for the Bank of Russia to recognise the payment system as a nationally significant one

Order of the Ministry of Power Supplies of the Russian Federation No. 186 of April 15, 2014 on the uniform standards of quality of services of networks organisations for consumers of services of network organisations

Direction of the Bank of Russia No. 3267-U of May 30, 2014 on the amendments to the Regulation of the Bank of Russia No. 254-P of March 26, 2004 on the procedure for credit organisations to form reserves for possible losses for loans, debts in loans and similar debts

Information message of the Federal Service for Regulation of the Alcohol Market of June 26, 2014 on the procedure of filling of declarations on the volume of retail sales of beer and beer drinks, cider, perry and mead using the form provided in Appendix 12