Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 2.07.2018

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 738 of June 27, 2018 - this Decision approves of the Rules for keeping the Unified State Register of civil status records

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 737 of June 27, 2018 No. 737 on making amendments into the Rates of export customs duties with respect to goods exported from the Russian Federation outside the member states of the Customs Union Agreements - the validity of the zero rate of the export customs duty wth respect to wheat (the code of the Eurasian Economic Union CC FEA 1001 99 000 0) shall be extended unril July 1, 2019

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 744 of June 28, 2018 - payments to the Platon system shall be indexed from July 1, 2019 (not from July 1, 2018 as it was supposed earlier)

Federal Law No. 174-FZ of June 29, 2018 - any state unitary enterprise or any municipal unitary enterprise shall have the right to perform procurement on its own expense under the Law on Internal Procurement (Federal Law No. 223-FZ)

Federal Law No. 173-FZ of June 29, 2018 - the amendments envisage introduction of concession mechanisms and public-private partnerships into the process of creation of information technology facilities

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 728 of June 26, 2018 - this Decision approves the Rules in accordance with which distributors of information in the Internet shall store text messages, voice data, images, sounds, videos or other messages of the Internet users

Federal Law No. 157-FZ of June 27, 2018 on amending the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation - criminal liability shall be provided for online trade in the most valuable wild animals

Federal Law No. 156-FZ of June 27, 2018 on amending Article 226.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - criminal liability shall be provided for illegal traffic of strategically vital goods and resources

Federal Law No. 155-FZ of June 27, 2018 on amending the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation - new fines for operators of search engines and hosting providers for failure to meet the requirements concerning connection to the Federal State Information System

Federal Law No. 163-FZ of June 27, 2018 adjusted the termin “place of residence of a foreign citizen or a stateless person”

Federal Law No. 169-FZ of June 27, 2018 on amending Article 14 of the Federal Law on the National Payment System - these amendments are aimed at simplification of administration and control of special bank accounts by credit institutions

Federal Law No. 168-FZ of June 27, 2018 on amending articles 31 and 32.2 of the Federal Law on Legal Status of Foreign Citizens and Stateless Persons in the Russian Federation - these amendments concern powers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with respect to deportation of foreign citizens

Federal Law No. 159-FZ of June 27, 2018 on making amendments into articles 164 and 165 of Part Two of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation - the list of taxpayers that have the right to apply a zero VAT rate for sale of precious metals is extended

Decision of the Plenary Session of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation No. 28 of June 26, 2018 on certain issues arising in courts while considering administrative cases and cases of administrative violations related to application of legislation on public events - explanations on the rules for holding public events and responsibility for violation of such rules

Direction of the Bank of Russia No. 4793-U of May 7, 2018 - operators involved in transfer of monetary funds shall report to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation about hacker attacks