Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 31.01.2020

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 197n of November 25, 2019 – amendments to the Procedure for Formation and Application of Budget Classification Codes of the Russian Federation. Codes are envisaged for expenses for the professional development of civil servants, compensation for pensioners for relocation from the Far North, development of information and telecommunication infrastructure of schools, etc.

Federal Law No. 512-FZ of December 27, 2019 on Amending Article 12 of the Federal Law on Protection of Citizens' Health from Tobacco Smoking and Consequences of Tobacco Use: special smoking areas will be back to airports

Federal Law No. 510-FZ of December 27, 2019 on Amending Article 2 of the Federal Law on Use of Cash Register Machines in Settlements in the Russian Federation: municipal cultural institutions will be allowed not to use cash registers

Federal Law No. 493-FZ of December 27, 2019 on amending the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offences: fines are envisaged for speculating with theater or museum tickets

Federal Law No. 492-FZ of December 27, 2019 on amending the Federal Law on Licensing Certain Types of Activities

Federal Law No. 490-FZ of December 27, 2019 on amending Article 9 of the Federal Law on the National Payment System: e-wallet operators shall inform customers of account blocking

Federal Law No. 483-FZ of December 27, 2019 on amending Articles 7 and 11 of the Federal Law on Consumer Credit (Loan) and also Article 9.1 of the Federal Law on Mortgage (Pledge): it will be possible to return part of the insurance cover in case of early (pre-schedule) repayment of the loan

Federal Law No. 478-FZ of December 27, 2019 on amending certain legal acts of the Russian Federation in as much as it concerns implementation of the register (electronic) model for rendering public services involved in licensing certain types of activities

Federal Law No. 475-FZ of December 27, 2019 on making amendments into the Federal Law on the Circulation of Medicines: interchangeability of medicines, import of unregistered drugs, etc.

Federal Law No. 474-FZ of December 27, 2019 on amending Article 25.1 of the Federal Law on Development of Small and Medium Enterprises in the Russian Federation and also Article 8 of the Federal Law on Procurement of Goods, Work, Services by Certain Types of Legal Entities

Federal Law No. 473-FZ of December 27, 2019 on amending the Housing Code of the Russian Federation and the Federal Law on the Fund for Assistance to the Reform of Housing Utilities

Federal Law No. 468-FZ of December 27, 2019 on Viticulture and Winemaking in the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 463-FZ of December 27, 2019 on amending Article 1 of the Federal Law on the Minimum Wage: from January 1, 2020, the minimum wage will be 12 130 roubles per month

Federal Law No. 462-FZ of December 27, 2019 on amending the Federal Law on Circulation of Medicines and the Federal Law on Amendments to the Federal Law on Circulation of Medicines: the transition period for introduction of drug labelling has been extended

Federal Law No. 454-FZ of December 27, 2019 on Amending the Federal Law on the Securities Market and also Article 73 of the Federal Law on Enforcement Proceedings in terms of improving the regulation of professional activities in the securities market: the procedure for conducting brokerage activities has been changed

Federal Law No. 452-FZ of December 27, 2019 on amending the Federal Law on the Fundamentals of Protection of Citizens’ Health in the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 451-FZ of December 27, 2019 on amending the Federal Law on the Special Assessment of Working Conditions

Federal Law No. 449-FZ of December 27, 2019 on amending the Federal Law on the Contract System in the Sphere of Procurement of Goods, Work, Services to Ensure State and Municipal Needs

Federal Law No. 445-FZ of December 27, 2019 on insurance rates for compulsory social insurance against industrial accidents and occupational diseases for 2020 and for the planning period 2021 and 2022

Order of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation No. 741n of November 28, 2019 on making amendments into Appendices Nos 1 to 3 to the Order of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation No. 832n of December 24, 2018 on distribution among subjects of the Russian Federation of quotas (as approved by the Government of the Russian Federation for 2019) for issuance to foreign citizens arriving into the Russian Federation on the basis of a visa, of work permits and invitations to enter the Russian Federation for carrying out labour activities

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1842 of December 26, 2019 on the Procedure for the manufacturing state registration plates of vehicles

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1897 of December 27, 2019 on approval of the Regulations on federal state control over observance of the rules of technical operation of light railway vehicles and the rules for using light rail

Order of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation No. 839 of December 25, 2019 on Amendments to appendices Nos 1 and 2 to the Order of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation No. 291 of May 10, 2016: the Ministry of Economic Development increased the fees for providing information contained in the Uniform State Cadastral Register

Federal Constitutional Law No. 6-FKZ of December 27, 2019 – special tariffs for gas supply in Crimea and Sevastopol will be valid until July 1, 2021

Federal Law No. 495-FZ of December 27, 2019 on amendments to Articles 6.1 and 39.1 of the Federal Law on the Securities Market and the Federal Law on State Regulation of Arrangement and Holding of Gambling and on Amending Certain Legislative Acts acts of the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 501-FZ of December 27, 2019 on Amendments to the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offences. There are new articles on liability in the sphere of circulation of precious metals and gemstones

Federal Law No. 505-FZ of December 27, 2019 on Amendments to the Law of the Russian Federation on Subsoil

Federal Law No. 498-FZ of December 27, 2019 on Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation: participants to the “capital amnesty” obtained extra protection against unjustified criminal prosecution

Federal Law No. 488-FZ of December 27, 2019 on Amendments to Articles 26 and 67.1 of the Water Code of the Russian Federation: powers to prevent the negative impact of inland sea waters will be transferred to the regions

Federal Law No. 522-FZ of December 27, 2019 on Amending Article 1 of the Federal Law on the Total Number of Justices of the Peace and Number of Court Sites in the Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 491-FZ of December 27, 2019: when applying to the court with a claim for awarding compensation for violation of conditions of detention in custody, it will be necessary to pay a state duty

Federal Law No. 513-FZ of December 27, 2019: state authorities and institutions do not need a special bank account for settlements with a payment agent when accepting payments

Federal Law No. 481-FZ of December 27, 2019: new rules for turnover of pharmaceutical alcohol

Federal Law No. 482-FZ of December 27, 2019 an amending the Federal Law on the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia)

Federal Law No. 458-FZ of December 27, 2019 on amendments to Article 27 of the Federal Law on State Regulation of the production and turnover of ethyl alcohol, alcohol and alcohol-containing products and on limitation of consumption (drinking) of alcohol products

Federal Law No. 457-FZ of December 27, 2019 on amendments to Articles 9 and 12 of the Federal Law on the Currency Regulation and Currency Control

Federal Law No. 460-FZ of December 27, 2019 on amending Article 422 of Part Two of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation: payments to employees of enforcement bodies are not subject to insurance premiums

Federal Law No. 453-FZ of December 27, 2019: amendments to the Federal Law on Environmental Expert Examination and the Federal Law on Protection of Environment

Federal Law No. 470-FZ of December 27, 2019 on amendments to Article 74.1 of Part One of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation: banks being reorganised will be able to issue tax payment guarantees

Federal Law No. 472-FZ of December 27, 2019 on amendments to the Town-Planning Code of the Russian Federation and certain legal acts of the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 517-FZ of December 27, 2019 on Amending the Federal Law on the State Defence Order

Federal Law No. 480-FZ of December 27, 2019: amendments to the Fundamentals of the Legislation of the Russian Federation on Notaries and certain legal acts of the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 516-FZ of December 27, 2019: amendments to the Federal Law on the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation and the Federal Law on the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 503-FZ of December 27, 2019: amendments to Article 56 of the Air Code of the Russian Federation and Article 14 of the Federal Law on the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1954 of December 31, 2019 on amending Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1556 of December 14, 2018 – Regulations on the System for Supervision over Circulation of Medicines shall be adjusted from July 1, 2020

Order of the Federal Service for Supervision over Education and Science No. 1628 of November 29, 2019 – approval of application forms for conducting state accreditation of educational activities, re-issuing a certificate of state accreditation of educational activities, issuing a temporary certificate of state accreditation of educational activities, etc.

Letter of the Federal Tax Service No. ED-4-15/27217@ of December 30, 2019 on registries confirming deductions in accordance with Article 201 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation

Information of the Bank of Russia dated January 10, 2020 – LLC CB Neklis-Bank: the licence for banking operations is revoked

Letter of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 07-04-09/102563 of December 27, 2019: recommendations to audit organisations, individual auditors, auditors on conducting an audit of the annual financial statements of organisations for 2019

Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation No. 1-P of January 13, 2020 in the case of the verification of the constitutionality of parts 2 and 3 of article 13, paragraph 5 of part 5 of article 19 and part 1 of Article 20 of the Federal Law on the Fundamentals of Citizens' Health Protection in the Russian Federation in connection with the complaint of citizen R. D. Svechnikova

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 237n of December 18, 2019 on approval of the federal standard for internal financial audit "The grounds and procedure for organisation, cases and the procedure for transferring powers to carry out internal financial audits"

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1556 of December 14, 2018 on approval of the Regulations on the circulation monitoring system of drugs for medical use

Information of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation of January 10, 2020 on the average price of Urals oil for December 2019

Information of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation of January 10, 2020 on average prices for the expired tax period for the corresponding types of hydrocarbon materials extracted from the new offshore hydrocarbon field for the period from December 1 to December 31, 2019

Information of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation of January 15, 2020 on the Export Customs Duties on Crude Oil and Certain Categories of Goods Manufactured from Oil for the Period from February 1 till February 29, 2020

Order of the Federal Tax Service No. MMV-7-20/381@ of July 26, 2019 on approval of the methodology for the examination of models of cash register equipment and facilities of the fiscal data operator

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 13 of January 15, 2020 on amending the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation on the Disclosure of Information on Incomes, on Property and Property-Related Obligations by Citizens Aspiring to Occupy a Federal Civil Service Post, and by Federal Civil Servants

Information of the Bank of Russia of January 17, 2020 - the licence for banking operations was revoked from public joint stock company CB "PFS-BANK"

Order of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation No. 793 of December 10, 2019 on Amending Order of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation No. 684 of October 21, 2019 on the establishment of deflator coefficients for 2020 - deflator coefficients for this year have been reduced

Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation No. 907 of December 4, 2019: the Administrative Regulations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation are approved with respect to rendering public services for registration, issuance, extension of validity and restoration of visas to foreign citizens and stateless persons

Resolution of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission No. 2 of January 14, 2020 established the rate of import customs duty with respect to stamping foil

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 218n of December 10, 2019 on amendments to Order of the RF Ministry of Finance No. 34n of February 28, 2018 on the approval of the federal accounting standard "non-produced assets" for public sector organisations

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 217n of December 10, 2019 approves amendments to Order of the RF Ministry of Finance No. 146n of June 29, 2018 on the approval of the federal accounting standard "Concession Agreements" for public sector organisations

Draft Law No. 885214-7 on adjusting the Constitution of the Russian Federation in order to improve the regulation of certain issues related to arrangement of the public authority (proposed by the President of the Russian Federation)

Information issued by the Federal Tax Service on January 20, 2020: data are published for calculating amounts of mineral extraction tax, excess-profit tax, as well as excises on crude oil for December 2019

Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation No. 3-P of January 21, 2020 on the case of verification of constitutionality of provisions of Article 54 of the Civil Procedural Code of the Russian Federation in connection with the complaint of a citizen: the Constitutional Court allowed lawyers of incompetent citizens to appeal against court decisions without a power of attorney

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 232n of December 13, 2019 on the approval of the Procedure for implementation of treasury security for obligations with treasury support of targeted funds

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 20 of January 21, 2020 on the approval of the National Food Security Doctrine

Order of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation No. 1923 of December 10, 2019 on the approval of the list of identity documents (including documents proving the identity of foreign citizens or stateless persons in the Russian Federation) and allowing to determine the age of a person wishing to purchase an entrance ticket, get an invitation or another document granting the right to attend a spectacular event (including showing films at film and video services), through which information products are distributed containing information prohibited for distribution among children, or to visit such event, as well as the age of a person wishing to purchase or rent information products that contain information prohibited for distribution among children

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 21 of January 21, 2020 on the structure of federal executive authorities

Direction of the Bank of Russia No. 5286-U of October 14, 2019 on the Procedure for indication of the type of income code in money transfer requests

Order of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation No. 4176 of November 8, 2019 on the approval of the procedure and form for issuing a document confirming the purpose of imported goods specified in subitem 22 of article 150 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation, and the procedure for issuing a document confirming the purpose of the goods being sold referred to in subitem 16 of Item 1 of Article 164 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation

Information of the Bank of Russia dated January 24, 2020: the licenсe for banking operations with JSC NVKbank was revoked

Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation No. 4-P of January 23, 2020 on the case of verification of constitutionality of Part 1 of Article 63 of the Federal Law on Service in the Internal Affairs Bodies of the Russian Federation and Amendment of Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation (in connection with the complaint of a citizen V.A. Chistyakov)

Order of the Federal Tax Service No. MMV-7-21/566@ of November 12, 2019 – approval of notification forms for providing tax benefits for transport tax, land tax, property tax for individuals, notification of refusal to provide tax benefits for transport tax, land tax, property tax on individuals, as well as on amendments to Order of the Federal Tax Service No. MMV-7-2/149@ of April 15, 2015

Information of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation of January 10, 2020 on the average price of Urals oil for December 2019

Information of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation of January 10, 2020 on average prices for the expired tax period for the corresponding types of hydrocarbon materials extracted from the new offshore hydrocarbon field for the period from December 1 to December 31, 2019

Order of the Federal Treasury No. 40n of December 31, 2019 – approves the Operating Chart of Accounts for centralised accounting, and also the Procedure for its application

Decision of the Board of the Pension Fund of Russia No. 730p of December 25, 2019 – approves the form and format of submitting information on the registered person’s labour activities, as well as the procedure for filling in the forms of such information

Order of the Federal Labour and Employment Service No. 232 of August 23, 2019 – approves the Administrative Regulations for rendering by the Federal Labour and Employment Service public services related to the state examination of job conditions in order to assess the correctness of granting guarantees and compensations for work with harmful and (or) dangerous working conditions for employees of organisations belonging to groups of companies (corporations, holdings or other associations of legal entities) that have branches, representative offices and (or) subsidiaries and acting on the permanent basis on the territory of several subjects of the Russian Federation

Decision of the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Russian Federation No. 2 of January 24, 2020 on additional measures to prevent the entry and spread of a new coronavirus infection caused by 2019-nCoV

Regulations of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation and the Bank of Russia No. 239n, 707-P of December 19, 2019 on the Procedure for Treasury Securing of Obligations in Banking of Government Contracts

Federal Law No. 5-FZ of January 28, 2020 on amending Part One of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 4-FZ of January 28, 2020 on amending Articles 161 and 163 of the Housing Code of the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 3-FZ of January 28, 2020 on invalidation of Item 5 of part 4 of Article 28 of the Federal Law on Compulsory Medical Insurance in the Russian Federation

Order of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation No. 1n of January 9, 2020 - The Ministry of Healthcare has determined which medicines should be provided free of charge to patients with cardiovascular diseases

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 231n of December 13, 2019 - The Ministry of Finance clarified the rules for submission of accounting for public sector organisations

Decision of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of Russia No. 1 of January 28, 2020 on approval of the list of judicial mediators

Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation No. 5-P of January 28, 2020 - The Constitutional Court decided to amend the rules on the participation of lawyers among military pensioners in the obligatory pension insurance system

Review of judicial practice in resolving disputes related to the establishment of the requirements controlling a debtor and its affiliates in bankruptcy proceedings (approved by the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on January 29, 2020)

Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 140-r of January 30, 2020 - from January 31 the Russian-Chinese border will be temporarily closed

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 61 of January 29, 2020 on approval of the indexation coefficient of payments, benefits and compensations in 2020

Order of the Federal Tax Service No. MMV-7-21/646@ of December 20, 2019 on approval of the form, procedure for filling it in, format and procedure for submitting information on the land plot to the tax authority - the form of data on agricultural land plots not used for agricultural production is established

Order of the Federal Tax Service No. MMV-7-3/639@ of December 19, 2019 on amending Order of the Federal Tax Service No. MMV-7-3/115@ of March 2, 2016 on Endorsing the Form of a Tax Calculation Concerning the Amounts of Income Paid Out to Foreign Organisations and Taxes Withheld, the Procedure for Preparation Thereof, and Also the Format for Filing a Tax Calculation Concerning the Amounts of Income Paid Out to Foreign Organisations and Taxes Withheld in Electronic Form