Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 28.02.2025

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 48 of January 31, 2025 on amending Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 95 of March 5, 2022 on a Temporary Procedure for Fulfilling Obligations Owing to Certain Foreign Creditors - The transfer of funds from C-type accounts in the event of bankruptcy of banks or securities market participants has been regulated

Resolution of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation No. 4-P of January 31, 2025 on the case of verifying the constitutionality of Article 1085 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation - The Constitutional Court named the conditions for compensation of expenses for paid treatment outside the compulsory medical insurance

Direction of the Bank of Russia No. 6926-U of November 5, 2024 on amending Item 2.1 of Direction of the Bank of Russia No. 3629-U of April 29, 2015 on the Recognition of Persons as Qualified Investors and the Procedure for Conducting the Register of the Persons Recognized as Qualified Investors - The asset requirement for classifying as a qualified investor has been increased

Information Letter of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 24-01-06/8697 of January 31, 2025 - on the application of the provisions of Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1875 of December 23, 2024 "On measures to provide national treatment in the procurement of goods, works, services to meet state and municipal needs, procurement of goods, works, services by certain types of legal entities"

Letter of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 24-07-09/8585 of January 31, 2025 - on sending information on issues of posting information on the annual volume of purchases that customers should make from small and medium-sized businesses, in accordance with Federal Law No. 223-FZ of July 18, 2011 "On the procurement of goods, works, services by certain types of legal entities"

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 71 of January 31, 2025 - on Amending Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1074 of August 13, 2024: the RF Government extended the temporary ban on the export of commercial gasoline until February 28, 2025. The restriction does not apply to producers of petroleum products.

Order of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation No. 335 of January 27, 2025 - on approval of the procedure for recognising the results of measurements obtained using measuring instruments owned by foreign organisations

Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 160-r of February 1, 2025 - the list of countries, banks and brokers from which will be admitted to trading on the Russian foreign exchange market and the derivatives market, has been expanded. Argentina, Cambodia, Laos, Mexico, Nigeria, Tunisia and Ethiopia are included thereto.

Decision of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia dated January 29, 2025 - on the levels of credit ratings established in accordance with Regulations of the Bank of Russia No. 658-FZ of November 1, 2018

Federal Law No. 7-FZ of February 3, 2025 - amending Articles 11.1 and 17 of the Federal Law on Compulsory Civil Liability Insurance of Vehicle Owners

Federal Law No. 6-FZ of February 3, 2025 - amending Article 173 of the Housing Code of the Russian Federation and certain legal acts of the Russian Federation: the threshold for collecting contributions for major repairs has been increased.

Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 196-r of February 3, 2025 - restriction on the use of a floating rate on loans will not affect microenterprises in certain areas.

Federal Law No. 5-FZ of February 3, 2025 - amendments to Article 52 of the Federal Law on the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation: issues of placing the transport prosecutor's office at transport infrastructure facilities.

Order of the Ministry of Public Health of the Russian Federation No. 708n of December 23, 2024 - approval of the Procedure for maintaining the register of issued permits for conducting clinical trials of medicinal products for medical use

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 77 of February 1, 2025 - specifics of conducting state final certification and admission to training in 2025

Letter of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 05-06-13RM/9424 of February 3, 2025 - "Official clarifications No. 3 concerning the application of Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 618 of September 8, 2022": the RF President has established a special procedure for transactions (operations) with the participation of persons from unfriendly countries in relation to LLCs.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 94 of February 3, 2025 - amendments to Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1625 of September 16, 2022: founders that have fallen under sanctions will be able to stonewall companies they create.

Information of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, dated February 5, 2025 - on the average price level of Urals crude oil for January 2025

Direction of the Bank of Russia No. 6892-U of October 2, 2024 - on amendments to Direction of the Bank of Russia No. 5873-U of August 2, 2021: the procedure for calculating the capital adequacy ratio of professional participants in the securities market has changed.

Bank of Russia Standard No. STO BR BFBO-1.9-2024 "Security of financial (banking) transactions. Ensuring the security of using QR codes when transferring funds"

Order of the Pension and Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation No. 2186 of November 19, 2024 - approval of the Administrative Regulations of the Pension and Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation for the provision of the public service "Acceptance of an application from an insured person for the distribution of pension savings"

Information of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation dated February 7, 2025 on average prices for the past tax period for the corresponding types of hydrocarbon raw materials extracted from a new offshore hydrocarbon raw material field, for the period from January 1 to January 31, 2025

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 90 of February 3, 2025 on amending Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1479 of September 16, 2020 - Fire safety regulations have been adjusted

Order of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation No. 611n of November 7, 2024. The standard for organising vocational training and additional vocational education for unemployed citizens has been updated. This is due to the adoption of the new Law on Employment

Resolution of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation No. 6-P of February 11, 2025 on the case of verifying the constitutionality of parts 1 and 3 of Article 10 of the Federal Law on Insurance Pensions - The Constitutional Court has ordered the establishment of a survivor's pension for children conceived using the deceased father's biomaterial

Information of the Federal Service for Control of Alcohol and Tobacco Markets of February 10, 2025. From March 1, 2025, documents for licensing the production and circulation of alcohol will be issued in electronic form

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 123 of February 7, 2025 on amending certain acts of the Government of the Russian Federation - The RF Government has extended the transition period for the launch of product labelling in new regions

Methodological recommendations of the Bank of Russia No. 1-MR of January 20, 2025 - The Bank of Russia has defined the basic principles of good practice in the financial market. These are honesty, fairness, transparency, care, safety, professionalism, responsibility and integrity. Recommendations for their use are given..

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 130 of February 11, 2025 on conducting an experiment to provide software developers with the opportunity to voluntarily confirm their competencies

Decision of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia of February 14, 2025 The Bank of Russia has established a macroprudential buffer on loans to large companies with increased debt burden

Decision of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia of February 14, 2025 on amending the Decision of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia dated January 29, 2025 (in terms of establishing surcharges to risk coefficients in relation to mortgage loans (credits) and loans (credits) provided for financing under a shared construction participation agreement) = Since March 1, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation has reduced the surcharges to risk coefficients for certain mortgage loans

Information Statement of the Bank of Russia of February 14, 2025 The Bank of Russia has decided to keep the key rate at 21.00% per annum

List of instructions following the meeting with members of the RF Government. The President instructed the Prosecutor General's Office to check the technical condition of the tanker fleet

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 151 of February 13, 2025 on amending Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1230 of July 21, 2021 - The Cabinet of Ministers has regulated issues of state control over the employment of sailors abroad

Federal Law No. 9-FZ of February 13, 2025 on amending certain legal acts of the Russian Federation - A cooling-off period for consumer loans has been introduced

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 138 of February 11, 2025 - on the formation of a directory of professions containing information on promising and new professions in demand on the labour market of the Russian Federation

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 148 of February 13, 2025 - on establishing the amount of funds retained by the owner of a nominal account to cover necessary expenses and improve the mechanisms for interaction with authors and other copyright holders

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 137 of February 11, 2025 - on approval of the Rules for the implementation of a one-time cash payment to military personnel serving under contract in the troops of the National Guard of the Russian Federation

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 132 of February 11, 2025 - on approval of the Rules for calculating the amount of interest for the use of funds located in the nominal account of an organisation for collective rights management

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 131 from February 11, 2025 - on approval of the Rules for the transfer of information to the Federal Financial Monitoring Service by lawyers, trustees (managers) of a foreign structure without forming a legal entity, executive bodies of a personal fund (except for an inheritance fund), including an international personal fund (except for an international inheritance fund), persons engaged in entrepreneurial activity in the field of providing legal or accounting services, persons involved in mining digital currency (including participants in a mining pool), persons organising the activities of a mining pool, notaries, audit organisations and individual auditors,as well as for sending requests by the Federal Financial Monitoring Service to such persons

Order of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation No. 708n of December 18, 2024 - on approval of the Standard of activities for the implementation of powers in the field of employment of the population to assist citizens seeking work, unemployed citizens in moving (relocating) to another locality for employment upon referral of employment service agencies

Order of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation No. 683n of December 10, 2024 - on approval of the Standard of activities for the implementation of powers in the field of employment of the population to provide temporary employment of unemployed citizens experiencing difficulties in job search

Order of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation No. 629n of November 22, 2024 - on approval of the Standard of activities for the implementation of powers in the field of employment of the population to organise temporary employment for minors aged 14 to 18 in their free time

Information of the Federal Service for Control of Alcohol and Tobacco Markets, dated February 17, 2025 - "Information message for alcohol market participants importing distillates": from March 1, 2025, importers of grape distillates must specify the year of grape harvest in the application for recording information into the Unified State Automated Information System.

Information of the Federal Service for Control over Alcohol and Tobacco Markets, dated February 17, 2025 - "Information message for alcohol market participants labeling imported alcoholic products": the procedure for filling in applications for recording in the Unified State Automated Information System will change for alcohol importers.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 168 of February 15, 2025 - amendments to Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1532 of December 31, 2015: the procedure for sending documents to Rosreestr by government bodies and local governments for entering information into the Unified State Register of Real Estate has been adjusted

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 167 of February 15, 2025 - amendments to certain acts of the Government of the Russian Federation: specifics of applying legislation in the areas of heat supply, water supply and sanitation for new regions has been clarified.

Order of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation No. 678n of December 9, 2024 - on approval of the Standard of activities for the implementation of powers in the field of employment of the population to assist employers in the search of relevant employees

Resolution of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation No. 8-P of February 19, 2025 - on the case of verifying the constitutionality of part one of Article 226.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in connection with the complaint of citizen O.V. Panov. The Constitutional Court did not confirmed problems with classification of illegal traffic of strategically important goods.

Order of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection No. 52n of the Russian Federation of February 7, 2025 - on approval of the Standard of activities for the implementation of powers in the field of employment of the population to inform about the situation on the labour market in a constituent entity of the Russian Federation, social and labour rights of citizens, development of forms of employment

Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 378-r of February 18, 2025 - quotas for admission to targeted training in universities at the expense of the federal budget in 2025 have been established.

Decision of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia, dated February 14, 2025 - on establishing credit rating levels for the purposes of applying subitems 2 and 3 of Item 2 of Article 3.1 of Federal Law No. 39-FZ of April 22, 1996 "On the Securities Market"

Order of the Federal Tax Service No. ED-7-26/29@ of January 20, 2025 - on approval of the format for submitting an invoice for payment in electronic form

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 156 of February 13, 2025 on amending Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 810 of May 27, 2021 - From September 1, 2025, it will be possible to buy tickets for long-distance trains using biometrics

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 96 of February 21, 2025 on amending Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 16 of February 17, 2023 - On the specifics of corporate decision-taking by systemic territorial network organisations in 2025

Order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation No. 34 of February 4, 2025 on the establishment of the Rules for conducting inspections, additional inspections, repeated inspections, observations and (or) interviews for the purpose of ensuring transport security

Order of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation No. 13n of January 17, 2025 on approval of the form of notification of completion, suspension or termination of a clinical trial of a medicinal product for human use

Resolution of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation No. 9-P of February 25, 2025 on the case of verifying the constitutionality of the provisions of Item 2 of Article 242.1 of the Budget Code of the Russian Federation and Item 10 of Part 2 of Article 252 of the Code of Administrative Legal Proceedings of the Russian Federation - The Constitutional Court has allowed convicts to indicate the details of their personal accounts in the penal system in claims for compensation for legal red tape

Information of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation of February 21, 2025 on the rates of export customs duties on crude oil and certain categories of goods manufactured from oil for the period from March 1 till March 31, 2025

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 213 of February 24, 2025 on biotechnological medicinal products, specially manufactured for a specific patient directly in a medical organisation in which such a biotechnological medicinal product is used, containing compounds synthesized based on the results of genetic studies of material obtained from the patient for whom such a biotechnological medicinal product is manufactured

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 223 of February 25, 2025 on approval of the Regulations on federal state control (supervision) over the activities of organisations implementing classification in the tourism industry

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 221 of February 25, 2025 on amending Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 744 of May 31, 2024 - The period for the sale of unmarked technical rehabilitation equipment has been extended

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 220 of February 25, 2025 on determining the criteria under which a joint stock company has the right to hold a general meeting of shareholders on any issue by absentee voting

Information Letter of the Bank of Russia No. IN-03-59/74 of February 26, 2025 on additional measures to support citizens - Borrowers from the Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk regions can count on multiple credit holidays

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 229 of February 26, 2025 The ban on the export of motor gasoline from the Russian Federation has been extended