29.03.2018
On 1 March 2018, the Commission of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation Office for St. Petersburg issued an order in respect to Afanasy Private Brewery LLC to stop violation of Article 14.6.1 of Federal Law No. 135-FZ, dated 26 July 2006 'On Competition Protection', in particular, the illegal use of the designation 'ОХОТА НАШЕГО' being confusingly similar to the trademark 'ОХОТА' the right holder of which is Heineken Russian subsidiary.
27.03.2018
On 1 June 2018, changes to the Civil Code of the Russian Federation (the 'Civil Code') and certain other federal laws will come into force in terms of regulation of certain types of obligations and contracts, and foreclosure on certain types of assets, introduced by Federal Law No. 212-FZ dated 26 July 2017.
Registration of medicines in the
Eurasian Economic Union
At the Pharmaceutical Forum of the EAEU and CIS countries held in Moscow in late February 2018, the Director of the Department of Technical Regulation and Accreditation of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEС) said that the full-scale work on registration of medicines using the unified information system of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) will start upon its launch scheduled on the first half of 2018. Currently, the integration segment of this system is ready, and the work to prepare national segments in each state of the EAEU is underway.
07.03.2018
On 1 March 2018 the Government of the Russian Federation by its decision No. 213 approved the criteria on the basis of which activities of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs are assigned with certain categories of risk for the purpose of state control over compliance with antitrust laws, and established three risk categories, respectively: average, moderate and low.
New state program on project
financing in Russia
The Government of the Russian Federation by its resolution No. 158 of 15 February 2018 approved:
- the Project Finance Factory program which provides for financing of investment projects on the basis of syndicated loan agreements (hereinafter - the 'Program');
- the Rules for Granting Subsidies from the Federal Budget to Compensate for Costs Associated with the Provision of Loans and Credits under the Project Financing Factory Mechanism (hereinafter - the 'Rules').
- the Project Finance Factory program which provides for financing of investment projects on the basis of syndicated loan agreements (hereinafter - the 'Program');
- the Rules for Granting Subsidies from the Federal Budget to Compensate for Costs Associated with the Provision of Loans and Credits under the Project Financing Factory Mechanism (hereinafter - the 'Rules').
19.02.2018
On 5 February 2018, Federal Law No. 16-FZ on the introduction of amendments to the Federal Law 'On the Fundamental Principles of Tourist Activities in the Russian Federation' and the Code of the Russian Federation 'On Administrative Offenses' was signed ('Law No. 16-FZ'). Law No. 16-FZ provides, inter alia, for obligatory classification of hotels, ski trails, and beaches and is aimed at improving the legal regulation in the provision of hotel services.
New territories of priority
socio-economic development in
Russia
In December 2017 and early February 2018, the Government of the Russian Federation adopted a number of decisions on the establishment of territories for priority socio-economic development (TPSED) in several regions of Russia
Marking and monitoring of
medicines circulation in Russia
from 2020
Pursuant to the changes in the Federal Law 'On Circulation of Medicines' introduced by Federal Law No. 425-FZ, dated 28 December 2017 ('Law No. 425-FZ'), from 1 January 2020 the federal state information system for monitoring the circulation of medicines for medical use from the manufacturer to the end user with the application of identification marks (system for monitoring the medicines circulation) will start functioning in Russia.
Syndicated lending regulation in
Russia
On 1 February 2018, the Federal Law, dated 31 December 2017, No. 486-FZ 'On Syndicated Lending and Introduction of Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation' (hereinafter - the 'Law No. 486-FZ') comes into force.
05.01.2018
The overview highlights some significant changes in the legislation of the Russian Federation that come into force in January and February 2018, in particular in such domains and spheres of regulation as:
banking law;
tax law;
public procurement;
intellectual property rights;
Internet messengers and mass media;
circulation of medicines;
medical services;
industrial production and technical regulation;
inspections of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs.
banking law;
tax law;
public procurement;
intellectual property rights;
Internet messengers and mass media;
circulation of medicines;
medical services;
industrial production and technical regulation;
inspections of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs.