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By Resolution No. 41-P dated 14 July 2023 which was adopted further to an appeal of VimpelCom PJSC, the Russian Constitutional Court held that provisions of the Russian Tax Code are inconsistent with the Constitution which relate to the calculation of the period for a controlled transaction to be audited where an updated notification has been submitted but where information regarding the transaction has already been included in the original notification.

On 21 July 2023 Federal Law No. 308-FZ dated 10 July 2023 will come into effect. It provides for the possibility of identification, for the benefit of Russian financial institutions, to be conducted by foreign financial institutions in relation to foreign persons to whom they provide services.

Amendments have been adopted to town-planning legislation which, among other things, enable the Russian Government to approve the procedure for adopting draft site design documentation and simplify the extension of a construction permit.

On 10 July 2023, the Russian President signed Federal Law No. 301-FZ “On amending the Federal Law “On Protecting Competition”, which is a part of the ‘fifth package of antitrust amendments’.

From 1 September 2023, it will be mandatory to label with means of identification biologically active supplements, skin sanitisers, individual types of medical products, and other goods.

The Russian Constitutional Court has adopted Resolution No. 30-P dated 5 June 2023. The Constitutional Court has checked whether article 35(2) of the Bankruptcy Law complies with the Constitution to the extent of how in legal practice the right was not recognised of an insurance company to participate in a dispute regarding the acts or omissions of a court-appointed administrator where no claim for losses to be recovered from the administrator has been asserted.