Restrictions and measures of state support for business: the digest for 18-31 August 2025

DRAFTS

Store shelves displaying Russian non-food goods may appear in Russia

The draft federal law

Public discussions are now taking place.

It has been proposed, among other things, that Federal Law No. 381-FZ “On the basic principles concerning the state regulation of trade activity in the Russian Federation” dated 28 December 2009 be supplemented with new article 8.1 concerning the requirements for trading in domestically produced non-food goods.

An obligation is being introduced for retail chains to ensure that a minimum share of such goods is displayed on store shelves. Exceptions apply to:

• retail chains whose aggregate revenues for the last calendar year were lower than RUB 2 billion;

• owners of aggregators/retail chains that sell goods of a single rightholder;

• duty free shops.

Requirements have been established for how such goods should be merchandised.

The Government will determine the list of such goods, the minimum share of them and the procedure for confirming that goods meet the criteria for domestically produced non-food goods.

Information regarding such goods is required to be entered in the register of Russian industrial products.

The consumer watchdog Rospotrebnadzor will be the controlling authority.

It is planned that the law will come into effect on 1 March 2026.

LEGISLATION

The simplified procedure for certifying goods has been extended

The Russian Government’s Decree No. 1277 dated 26 August 2025

Came into effect on 27 August 2025.

Amendments have been made to Annex No. 18 to the Russian Government’s Decree No. 353 dated 12 March 2022 regarding the specifics of permission-based activities in Russia.

The deadline has been extended until 1 September 2026, when the following will be permitted:

• to import goods that are to be assessed from the perspective of whether they comply with mandatory requirements, taking into account the specific aspects that have been established;

• to import products that are to be circulated solely in Russia without labelling, including labelling with the Eurasian Conformity mark and the conformity mark;

• to use a simplified procedure for assessing whether products conform to compulsory requirements in the form of the certification / declaration of conformity when products are released for circulation in (to be imported into) Russia.

The details have been approved of how the fee should be paid for advertising on the Internet

The Russian Government’s Decree No. 1224 dated 15 August 2025

Came into effect on 15 August 2025.

With a view to implementing article 18.2 of the Law on Advertising, details have been determined of how mandatory fees should be calculated and paid for advertising on the Internet, along with the rules for how these payments should be monitored.

The following details have been established, among others: the frequency of payments; the payment deadlines; the list of information to be included in calculations; the procedure for how payments are to be made as well as refunds of amounts paid in excess.

If the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and the Mass Media finds out that fees have not been paid or have not been paid in full, it is authorised to notify the payer of the offence and charge arrears (see Pepeliaev Group's comment).