Legal overviews
Government establishes procedure for adopting decisions on tariffs for natural monopolies
- Service: Antitrust Law
- Date: 30.09.2015
Decisions on establishing tariffs for natural monopolies will be adopted by a collegiate body within the FAS of Russia
On September 22, 2015, the State Duma approved the “Fourth Antitrust Package” in the third reading
- Service: Antitrust Law
- Date: 28.09.2015
Entities participating in investigation of cases on signs of violation of antitrust law now have new procedural tools that will allow them to defend their interests, and should cause a drop in the number of FAS decisions contested in court
Russian antitrust authority prepares official explanations concerning peculiarities of applying advertising law
- Service: Antitrust Law
- Date: 16.09.2015
Information provided by means of context technologies is advertising. Assessment of mass media products for rating them as national products is to be performed only as part of scheduled and unscheduled inspections. Scheduled inspections of small businesses will not be conducted in 2016-2018.
Russian Federal Antitrust Service prepares amendments to legislation related to procedure for approving foreign investments into companies of strategic importance
- Service: Antitrust Law
- Date: 02.09.2015
Russian antitrust authority prepares amendments to the Regulations on the government committee, allowing to shorten timeframes for approving transactions of foreign investors
Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade (Minpromtorg) proposes to ban rent in foreign currency
- Service: Real Estate and Construction
- Date: 01.09.2015
Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade proposes to prohibit establishing rent and other payments made by the tenant for possession and use of real estate in foreign currency
Latest amendments to labor law
- Service: Labor and Migration Law
- Date: 31.08.2015
Testing for narcotics can be mandatory for certain categories of employees
Far East to give away hectares
- Services: Construction, Real Estate and Construction
- Date: 27.08.2015
In 2016, Russians will be able to obtain the right to 1 ha of land in the Far East free of charge
The “unified law” in state registration of real estate: will it improve the state registration system?
- Services: Construction, Real Estate and Construction
- Date: 24.08.2015
The Law aimed at comprehensive regulation of state registration of rights to real estate and cadastral registration of real estate in a single regulatory act enters into force starting from January 01, 2017
Draft law on lobbyism submitted to Russian State Duma
- Date: 14.08.2015
Russia is likely to be among countries where lobbyism is regulated by law: in July 2015 the Russian State Duma received a draft federal law on procedure for promoting interests of business organizations and individual entrepreneurs before state and municipal authoritie
The FAS of Russia for the first time collected court costs incurred in the course of its decision and instructions being contested
- Service: Antitrust Law
- Date: 12.08.2015
For the first time, court satisfied claim of FAS on charging court costs on defendant