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At the federal level, industrial agreements have been adopted setting additional obligations and automatically extending to companies engaged in the timber industry in Russia. To refuse to join the agreements, companies should submit well-grounded refusals to the Russian Ministry of Labour and Social Protection (the "Ministry of Labour") by 8 October 2015.
On 9 September, the Rossiyskaya Gazeta published letters of the Ministry of Labour about signing up to the Federal Industrial Agreement for Russian timber companies for 2015-2017 (the "Company Agreement") and the Federal Industrial Agreement for the Russian timber industry for 2015-2017 (the "Industrial Agreement") .
