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At the federal level, a sector-based agreement has been adopted which sets additional obligations and automatically extends to companies in housing and utilities. To refuse to join the agreement, a well-grounded refusal in writing should be submitted to the Russian Ministry of Labour by 17 March 2017.

At the federal level, an agreement has been adopted to extend the sector-based agreement. The extension agreement sets additional obligations and automatically applies to companies in the oil and gas industries and to construction companies that build oil and gas facilities. To refuse to join the agreement, a well-grounded refusal in writing should be submitted to the Russian Ministry of Labour by 17 March 2017.

Law firm Pepeliaev Group advises that Commercial Court for the Moscow Circuit has issued a decision in which it upheld the argument of Thomson Reuters (Markets) SA, a client of Pepeliaev Group, that the provisions of a fee-based contract for information services were lawful and bound the customer when stipulating that the contract terminated 12 months after the customer gave notice of its withdrawal from the contract.

Pepeliaev Group advises that starting from 1 July 2017, changes will come into effect in the Russian Town-Planning Code and other laws in terms of regulating the activities of self-regulating organisations (“SROs”) in the sphere of construction, reconstruction, major repairs (collectively referred to as “construction”), engineering surveying, and design in relation to facilities undergoing capital construction work.

Pepeliaev Group advises that, from 1 July 2017, there will be substantial increases in fines for violations of personal data legislation.

Law firm Pepeliaev Group advises that on 9 January 2017 the Russian Ministry of Justice registered Order No. 646n of the Russian Ministry of Healthcare “On approving the Good Practice for the Storage and Transportation of Medicines Intended for Human Use” dated 31 August 2016 (“GPST”).