Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 31.07.2015

Federal Law No. 165-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the invalidation of individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation – technical regulations for butters, fats and juices

Federal Law No. 163-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the ratification of the Protocol to the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Armenia on cooperation in supplies of natural gas, oil products and raw natural diamonds to the Republic of Armenia of December 2, 2013

Federal Law No. 162-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the standardisation in the Russian Federation – anticipating modernisation

Federal Law No. 161-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the particulars of legal regulation of relations in the use of subsoil resources pursuant to adoption in the Russian Federation of the Republic of Crimea and the forming in the Russian Federation of the new subjects – Republic of Crimea and the city of federal significance of Sebastopol

Federal Law No. 159-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to the Federal Law on the state defence orders and individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation – authorised banks

Federal Law No. 158-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to the Federal Law on the particulars of alienation of immovable property available in the state property of the subjects of the Russian Federation or in the municipal property and leased by small and medium-size businesses and on the amendments to individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 157-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to Articles 333.33 and 333.35 of Part 2 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation – state duty exemptions for the Crimea

Federal Law No. 156-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation on the issues of development of small and medium-size businesses in the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 155-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation – insurance in tourism

Federal Law No. 154-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the regulation of particulars of insolvency (bankruptcy) in the territories of the Republic of Crimea and the city of federal significance of Sebastopol and on the amendments to individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 643 of June 29, 2015 on the rate of export customs duty in the cases of supplies of natural gas from the territory of the Russian Federation to the territory of the Ukraine

Federal Law No. 210-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation and invalidation of individual provisions of legislative acts of the Russian Federation – numerous changes in entrepreneurial issues

Federal Law No. 209-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation on opportunities of use of typical charters by legal entities

Federal Law No. 208-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to the Federal Law on fishing and conservation of aquatic biological resources – drift-net fishing

Federal Law No. 207-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to the Federal Law on the special economic zone in the Kaliningrad Province and on the amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation – customs administration

Federal Law No. 206-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to the Forestry Code of the Russian Federation and individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation improving regulation of forestry relations

Federal Law No. 205-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to the Law of the Russian Federation on subsoil resources and individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation – geological information

Federal Law No. 203-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation and invalidation of individual provisions of legislative acts of the Russian Federation – handling waste and state ecological control (supervision)

Federal Law No. 201-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to Articles 84.1 and 261 of the Labour Code of the Russian Federation – labour contract and maternity leave

Federal Law No. 200-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to Article 64 of Labour Code of the Russian Federation – refusing a labour contract

Federal Law No. 193-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to Article 183 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation – commercial, tax and bank secrets

Federal Law No. 190-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation – property arrest

Federal Law No. 189-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendment to Article 13.1 of the Federal Law on the entry into force of Part 4 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation – exclusive rights for results of intellectual activities in the Crimea and Sebastopol

Federal Law No. 188-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to the Federal Law on information, information technologies and on protection of information and Article 14 of the Federal Law on the contract system in the purchase of goods, works, services for state and municipal needs – register of home-made software

Federal Law No. 186-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation – bankruptcy of employer

Federal Law No. 185-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to the Federal Law on the Bank of Development and Article 970 of Part 2 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation – state support of export

Federal Law No. 184-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to the Federal Law on the state cadastre of immovable property and Article 6 of the Federal Law on the special economic zones in the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 183-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to Articles 5 and 16 of the Federal Law on the state registration of rights for immovable property and transactions with it – Union State

Federal Law No. 182-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to the Federal Law on the state regulation of production and circulation of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products and on the restriction of consumption (drinking) of alcoholic products – counterfeit alcohol

Federal Law No. 181-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to the Federal Law on currency regulation and currency control and Article 15.25 of the Code of Administrative Violations of the Russian Federation – international factoring

Federal Law No. 180-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to the Federal Law on the privatisation of state property and municipal property – improving the procedures

Federal Law No. 179-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation – beer and drinks on its basis

Federal Law No. 178-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to Article 288.1 of Part 2 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation – profit tax

Federal Law No. 176-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to the Housing Code of the Russian Federation and individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation – major changes in the housing legislation

Federal Law No. 175-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to Article 14.3 of the Code of Administrative Violations of the Russian Federation – credit advertising

Federal Law No. 168-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to Article 11 of the Federal Law on transport safety – passenger databases

Federal Law No. 167-FZ of June 29, 2015 on the amendments to individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation – interbank crediting

Decision of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation No. 28 of June 30, 2015 on certain issues in the cases of cadastral assessment of objects of immovable property

Resolution of the Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission No. 22 of April 28, 2015 – import duties for certain types of equipment for outer space industry

Order of the Federal Service for Regulation of the Alcohol Market No. 164 of June 19, 2015 on the form of logbook of volume of retail sale of alcoholic and alcohol-containing products and its filling procedure

Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation No. 19-P of July 1, 2015 on the case of constitutionality of the provision of Subitem 4 of Item 1 of Article 162 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation pursuant to the appeal of the limited-liability company Sony Mobile Communications Rus – value added tax

Order of the Federal Tax Service No. MMV-7-17/227@ of June 5, 2015 on the endorsement of the forms of certificates of the state of payments for taxes, fees, penalties, fines, interest, their filling procedure and formats for submission in electronic form

Information of the Bank of Russia of July 3, 2015 on the revocation of license for bank operations and appointment of interim administration – PAO Eno

Information of the Bank of Russia of July 3, 2015 on the revocation of license for bank operations and appointment of interim administration – AO Klientsky

Information of the Bank of Russia of July 3, 2015 on the revocation of license for bank operations and appointment of interim administration – AO Gagarinsky

Information of the Bank of Russia of July 3, 2015 on the revocation of license for bank operations and appointment of interim administration – Stary Kreml

Letter of the Federal Tax Service No. GD-4-3/11496@ of July 1, 2015 – patent system of taxation for the Crimea and Sebastopol

Letter of the Federal Tax Service No. BS-4-11/11351@ of June 30, 2015 – property tax

Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1149-r of June 22, 2015 on the purchase of educational services for professional development of federal state civil servants in individual priority directions of additional professional education in educational organisations

Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1247-r of June 30, 2015 – procurement in the area of outer space activities

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 669 of July 2, 2015 on the amendments to Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 244 of March 18, 2015 – subsidies for Russian car makers

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 655 of June 30, 2015 on the amendments to Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 688 of September 15, 2008 – VAT in the cases of import of medical goods

Letter of the Federal Antimonopoly Service No. AD/33032/15 of July 2, 2015 on the responsibility for violations in financial services advertising

Decision of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation No. 32 of July 7, 2015 on the judicial practices in the cases of legalisation (laundering) of monetary resources or another property obtained in a criminal way and on the purchase or sale of property known to be obtained in a criminal way

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 676 of July 6, 2015 on the requirements for the procedure of creation, development, putting in operation, operation and putting out of operation of state information systems and further keeping of information available in their databases

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 640 of June 26, 2015 on the procedure of forming the state order for state services (works) for federal state institutions and financial support of the state order

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 681 of July 7, 2015 on the procedure for keeping the state register of associations of employers and providing information to the mentioned state register by associations of employers

Letter of the Federal Service for Labour and Employment No. 1168-6-1 of May 15, 2015 on the travel to the place of business trip by service, leased transport, hitchhiking, as well as the duty of employer to certify the records in work-book with a seal

Resolution of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission No. 74 of July 8, 2015 on the amendments to the Joint Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activities of the Eurasian Economic Union and the Joint Customs Tariff of the Eurasian Economic Union for parts of gas turbines with a power rating greater than 50,000 kW

Resolution of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission No. 73 of July 8, 2015 on the amendments to the Joint Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activities of the Eurasian Economic Union and the Joint Customs Tariff of the Eurasian Economic Union for fish growing equipment

Resolution of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission No. 72 of July 8, 2015 on the amendments to the Joint Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activities of the Eurasian Economic Union and the Joint Customs Tariff of the Eurasian Economic Union for individual types of goods in compliance with obligations of the Russian Federation in the WTO framework

Information of the Bank of Russia of July 10, 2015 on the revocation of license for bank operations and appointment of interim administration – PAO Adelantbank

Information of the Bank of Russia of July 10, 2015 on the revocation of license for bank operations and appointment of interim administration – AO Aldanzolotobank

Information of the Federal Tax Service of July 8, 2015 on the new opportunities for checking contractors on the site of the Federal Tax Service

Order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation No. 145 of April 1, 2015 On Approval of the Procedure for Accreditation of Legal Entities as Transport Safety Subdivisions and of Requirements for them

Federal Law No. 271-FZ of July 13, 2015 defining the powers of federal and regional authorities relating to human organ transplantation

Federal Law No. 270-FZ of July 13, 2015 introducing new definitions in R&D and improving financial instruments and mechanisms in this field

Federal Law No. 268-FZ of July 13, 2015 modifying the legislation to make solicitors'/barristers' entities an independent form of non-profit organisations

Federal Law No. 264-FZ of July 13, 2015 allowing citizens to demand that internet search engines operators conceal certain information about such citizens

Federal Law No. 261-FZ of July 13, 2015 modifying the procedure for creation and registration of religious associations in Russia

Federal Law No. 259-FZ of July 13, 2015 prohibiting insurers, banks and notaries to demand the provision by their clients of information from the state register of rights to immovable property and transactions in it and from the state cadastre

Federal Law No. 257-FZ of July 13, 2015 defining the package of mandatory public television and radio channels and setting out rules for interaction of channel broadcasters with communication operators in respect of programmes, announcements and materials broadcast

Federal Law No. 255-FZ of July 13, 2015 setting out procedure for conclusion of agreements on international relations of Russia's regions and defining the role of federal authorities in this field

Federal Law No. 254-FZ of July 13, 2015 amending the Air Code of the Russian Federation and other acts as concerns mandatory certification, operation of aircraft and airports

Federal Law No. 253-FZ of July 13, 2015 defining the aviation personnel positions open only for Russian citizens

Federal Law No. 252-FZ of July 13, 2015 amending the Land Code and certain acts as concerning town planning and the cadastre

Federal Law No. 251-FZ of July 13, 2015 updating the procedure for registration of rights to immovable property and transactions in it

Federal Law No. 249-FZ of July 13, 2015 defining details of the purchase of goods, works and services for state and municipal needs

Federal Law No. 248-FZ of July 13, 2015 regulating in more detail the movement of large and heavy motor vehicles and the carriage of hazardous cargoes on Russia's roads

Federal Law No. 246-FZ of July 13, 2015 introducing from 2016 a temporary ban on inspections of certain small businesses, not extending to state control and supervision in certain key industries

Federal Law No. 236-FZ of July 13, 2015 amending the legislation on shared construction of dwellings and insurance for developers

Federal Law No. 232-FZ of July 13, 2015 defining the powers of regional and municipal authorities concerning special, simplified and patent-based taxation regimes

Federal Law No. 227-FZ of July 13, 2015 banning the purchase of goods, works and services from foreign states for state and municipal needs

Federal Law No. 225-FZ of July 13, 2015 on the formation of a single institution for housing development in Russia to promote housing construction and mortgage, and reduce the risks involved, having within it non-profit organisations, the Federal Fund for Promoting the Development of Housing Construction and affiliated business associations

Federal Law No. 224-FZ of July 13, 2015 on state-private partnership and municipal-private partnership relations, the private partner being a Russian entity

Federal Law No. 223-FZ improving the self-regulation mechanism on the financial market, defining the forms of self-regulating organisations and the role of the Bank of Russia in this field

Federal Law No. 222-FZ of July 13, 2015 setting out a framework for operation of credit rating agencies, requirements applicable thereto, for instance to the foreign agencies' branches operating in Russia

Federal Law No. 220-FZ of July 13, 2015 introducing procedures for inter-regional and other local-level motor-road and urban electricity-powered carriage of passengers and luggage

Federal Law No. 219-FZ of July 13, 2015 ratifying the package of international documents on accession of the Kyrgyz Republic to the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union

Federal Law No. 218-FZ of July 13, 2015 allowing easier access to the state registration of real estate and envisaging a uniform record-keeping and registration procedure as well as a single state register of immovable property

Federal Law No. 217-FZ of July 13, 2015 delegating to Roskosmos the powers of a manager and recipient of budget funds as well as other powers

Federal Law No. 215-FZ of July 13, 2015 defining the legal status, objectives, powers, functions of the State Corporation "Roskosmos"

Federal Laws Nos. 212-FZ, 213-FZ and 214-FZ of July 13, 2015 establishing a Free Port of Vladivostok with a free customs zone regime, special taxation and insurance conditions for residents and a simplified visa procedure for foreigners

Federal Law No. 211-FZ of July 13, 2015 amending the federal budget for 2015 and until 2017

Federal Law No. 272-FZ of July 14, 2015 changing the date of election to Duma to the third Sunday of September 2016

Federal Law No. 241-FZ of July 13, 2015 concerning the procedure for setting caps on wholesale and retail mark-ups for prices of medicines, defining the role of the regional and federal authorities in this, the procedure for examination and state registration of medicines and related paperwork

Resolution of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation No. 21-P of July 14, 2015 according to which not all judgements of the European Court of Human Rights are unconditionally applicable. A special legal mechanism may be eventually set up by the legislator in Russia to decide if a judgement of the ECHR on a complaint versus Russia is enforceable or not

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 368 of July 15, 2015 abolishing the Ministry of the Russian Federation on Crimea's Affairs, with the functions thereof being transferred to the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

Order of the Federal Tax Service No. MMV-7-8/190@ of May 12, 2015 allowing to classify as bad debts the arrears of non-operating organisations on penalties and fines available as of January 1, 2015 and defining a procedure for doing so

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 702 of July 13, 2015 raising the cap on the earnings whereby businesses are classified as small and medium

Information of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation of July 15, 2015 on the average world prices for certain types of hydrocarbons for the purposes of mining tax for new sea fields

Information of the Bank of Russia of July 17, 2015 on withdrawal of the banking licence of and the appointment of a receiver to Gelendzhik-Bank

Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation No. 244 of March 17, 2015 on the endorsement of the Administrative Regulation for the bodies of state power of the subjects of the Russian Federation implementing the handed over powers of the Russian Federation in the area of education on the provided state service of licensing of educational activities

Information of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation of July 15, 2015 on the new features in the audit legislation: facts and comments

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 373 of July 21, 2015 on certain issues of state management and control in the area of antimonopoly and tariff regulation – Federal Service for Tariff Rates

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 708 of July 16, 2015 on the special investment contracts for individual industries

Information of the Bank of Russia of July 21, 2015 on the revocation of license for bank operations and appointment or interim administration – PAO Time Bank

Information of the Bank of Russia of July 21, 2015 on the revocation of license for bank operations and appointment or interim administration – PAO United Bank of Industrial Investments

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 719 of July 17, 2015 on the criteria for including industrial products in those having no analogues produced in the Russian Federation

Letter of the Federal Tax Service No. YeD-4-3/12739@ of July 20, 2015 on the information necessary for calculation of the tax on extraction of mineral resources for oil for June 2015

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 102n of June 30, 2015 on the amendments to Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 161n of December 6, 2010 – auditor qualification certificate

Order of the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation No. 267 of June 23, 2015 on the endorsement of the particulars of filling by insurants of the estimate for accrued and paid insurance contributions for obligatory social insurance for the cases of temporary disability and maternity and obligatory social insurance against occupational accidents and diseases, as well as expenses to pay out insurance support (Form 4-FSS)

Order of the Federal Tax Service No. MMV-7-14/249@ of June 22, 2015 on the endorsement of the forms and formats of the notifications of registration, deregistration of the organisation or individual entrepreneur as a payer of the sales fee in the tax boy for the object of the type of entrepreneurial activities subject to the sales fee, as well as the filling procedure for these forms

Information of the Bank of Russia of July 24, 2015 on the revocation of license for bank operations and appointment of interim administration – OAO Bank Rossiysky Kredit

Information of the Bank of Russia of July 24, 2015 on the revocation of license for bank operations and appointment of interim administration – PAO AMB Bank

Information of the Bank of Russia of July 24, 2015 on the revocation of license for bank operations and appointment of interim administration – ZAO M Bank

Resolution of the Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission No. 44 of July 15, 2015 on the amendments to the Joint Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activities of the Eurasian Economic Union and the Joint Customs Tariff of the Eurasian Economic Union for individual types of goods in compliance with obligations of the Russian Federation in the WTO framework

Resolution of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission No. 85 of June 2, 2015 on the amendments to the Joint Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activities of the Eurasian Economic Union and the Joint Customs Tariff of the Eurasian Economic Union for individual types of goods in compliance with obligations of the Russian Federation in the WTO framework

Order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation No. 192 of June 17, 2015 on the amendments to the Regulation on the particulars of working time and rest time regime for tramway and trolleybus drivers endorsed by Order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation No. 127 of October 18, 2005

Information of the Bank of Russia of July 27, 2015 on the revocation of license for bank operations – PAO Tulsky Promyshlennik Bank

Order of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation No. 258n of April 29, 2015 on the endorsement of the Administrative Regulation of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation on the provided state service of certification for the right of works of special assessment of working conditions and issuance of certificate of expert for the right of works of special assessment of working conditions

Decision of the Management Board of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation No. 194p of June 4, 2015 on the amendments to Decision of the Management Board of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation No. 2p of January 16, 2014 – new form of estimate for accrued and paid insurance contributions

Main Directions of the tax policy of the Russian Federation for the year 2016 and for the planned period of 2017 and 2018

Decision of the Management Board of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation No. 243p of July 2, 2015 on the endorsement of the format of estimate for accrued and paid insurance contributions for obligatory pension insurance to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation and for obligatory medical insurance to the Federal Fund of Obligatory Medical Insurance by the payers of insurance contributions making payments and paying out other rewards to natural persons

Order of the Federal Service of Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Supervision No. 186 of May 12, 2015 on the endorsement of the Administrative Regulation of the Federal Service of Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Supervision on the provided state service of acceptance and registration of notifications of the beginning of individual types of activities of operation of explosion, fire and chemically hazardous production objects of class IV hazards by legal entities and individual entrepreneurs

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 391 of July 29, 2015 on individual special economic measures applied for the purpose of security of the Russian Federation – destruction of agricultural produce covered by countersanctions

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 760 of July 25, 2015 on the registration of man-made islands, installations, structures located on the continental shelf of the Russian Federation and the rights for them

Order of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation No. 1762 of June 9, 2015 on the endorsement of the General Requirements for the normative expenses for state (municipal) services in the area of culture, cinematography, archive activities applied for calculation of subsidies for financial support of state (municipal) orders for state (municipal) services (works) rendered (fulfilled) by a state (municipal) institution