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19November2020

The Russian Ministry of Economic Development is preparing amendments with regard to the shareholders who have not exercised their rights for a long time

Pepeliaev Group advises that a new draft law on “lost shareholders” has been issued.

13November2020

The new specifics of the regulation of corporate relationships in 2020 for NFPs

Pepeliaev Group advises that some amendments are expected to be made to the procedure for remotely holding meetings of NFPs' management bodies.

02November2020

The procedure for maintaining the register of SMEs has been changed

Pepeliaev Group advises that on 27 October 2020 the Russian President signed a Law providing for a possibility to enter into the the Unified Register of SMEs (the “SME register”, the “register”) data on companies and individual entrepreneurs (“IEs”) on a monthly basis.

02November2020

The law on the state registration of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs has been amended

Pepeliaev Group advises that on 27 October 2020 the Russian President signed a Law whereby the registration authority will independently (without the involvement of a legal entity) update the data in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (the “LE Register”) concerning the name of the legal entity when it is included in the data regarding other legal entities. Also, the timeframe has been extended for legal entities and individual entrepreneurs to inform the registration authority about changes that have been made to the data concerning them that is set out in the LE Register/ the Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs (the “IE Register”).

24September2020

The forms of and the requirements for the documents to be filed for the state registration have changed

Pepeliaev Group advises that Order No. ED-7-14/617@ of the Russian Federal Tax Service (the “Federal Tax Service”) dated 31 August 2020 has approved new forms of and requirements for drawing up the documents to be filed with the registration authority for the state registration of legal entities, individual entrepreneurs and farm businesses.

17September2020

Registration of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs will be simplified

Pepeliaev Group advises that the Russian Government has approved a draft law to simplify the state registration procedure for legal entities and individual entrepreneurs.

09September2020

A procedure is suggested to be set for conducting general meetings of shareholders online

Pepeliaev Group advises that the Ministry of Economic Development has suggested that companies should be permitted to conduct general meetings of shareholders remotely, using information and communications technologies.

27August2020

Amendments are being prepared to the accreditation procedure for branches and representative offices of foreign legal entities

Pepeliaev Group advises that a draft law has been put before the State Duma that is aimed at improving the accreditation procedure for branches and representative offices of foreign companies.

26August2020

Rules are made more clear for imposing administrative fines below the lower threshold Pepeliaev Group advises that the Russian Government has submitted to the State Duma a draft law allowing for administrative fines to be imposed below the lower threshold determined under Russian constituent entities' laws on administrative offences.

24August2020

Removal of an Individual Entrepreneur from the State Register Pepeliaev Group advises that starting from 1 September 2020, tax authorities can compulsorily remove inactive individual entrepreneurs from the Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs.

20August2020

An experimental procedure has been launched for the pre-trial challenging of audits of business entities

Pepeliaev Group advises that from 17 August an opportunity has become available for challenging the controlling and supervisory authorities’ decisions under a pre-trial procedure, including remotely via the Gosuslugi portal

17August2020

The new specifics of the regulation of corporate relationships in 2020

Pepeliaev Group advises that the new specifics of regulating corporate relationships in 2020 have been established.

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