Legal overviews
News on migration legislation. June 2015
- Service: Labor and Migration Law
- Date: 05.06.2015
New forms of notifications in migration body
Russian Federal Antitrust Service (‘FAS’) plans substantial amendments to legislation on foreign investments
- Service: Antitrust Law
- Date: 28.05.2015
New grounds for prior approval of transactions by a foreign investor.
Powers of the Government Commission of Control over Foreign Investments are proposed to be extended.
New industries of strategic importance.
Russian citizens with dual citizenship will be deemed foreign investors.
The range of transactions subject to prior approval is expanded.
Increased liability for violations in foreign investments.
Is a new friend better than two old ones?
- Date: 13.05.2015
New committee – the Property Relations Committee (PRC) – is organized in St. Petersburg by merging KUGI and KZRiZ
New provisions in law of obligations
- Date: 30.04.2015
More changes in the Civil Code: common court practice fixed in place by law and adoption of legal institutes used in foreign law
Amendments in Russian corporate law: Reward and punishment system
- Date: 17.04.2015
Validity of information in the EGRUL at all costs
Form of proposal for concluding concession agreement on initiative of private party is approved
- Date: 10.04.2015
Review of concession Law
Starting from May 1, 2015 a private party can submit a proposal to conclude a concession agreement in the established form.
New forms of securing obligations
- Date: 30.03.2015
Overview of civil legislation
New instruments for securing performance of obligations become effective starting from June 01, 2015
“Electrification” of justice: new aspects
- Date: 24.03.2015
Review of legislation in litigation proceedings
Opportunity to draw the enforcement documents in the electronic form is established. However, how soon the officials and bailiffs will use this instrument?
Payment by installments for changing permitted use of land in Moscow possible
- Service: Real Estate and Construction
- Date: 20.03.2015
The Moscow Government provided the landowners an opportunity to pay for the permitted use in installments
For the first time, court practice confirms position of Federal Antitrust Service (FAS) of Russia on applying antitrust legislation to legal relations on exercising exclusive rights
- Service: Antitrust Law
- Date: 18.03.2015
The commercial arbitration courts elaborated a position on applying antitrust legislation in intellectual property.
If a license agreement contains provisions regulating the procedure for the supply of goods (introduction into turnover), the antitrust legislation shall apply to it.