Restrictions and measures of state support for business: the digest for 10 August - 6 September 2026

LEGISLATION

General rules of e-commerce have been determined within the Eurasian Economic Union

The Agreement on electronic commerce with goods within the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) dated 7 August 2026 regulates the entrepreneurial activity of parties to e-commerce involving distance selling of goods to consumers.

It has been stipulated that the following will be approved:

• the requirements for the content of public offers for agreements to be concluded for the sale and purchase of goods, and for informing consumers that the agreements have performed;

• the list of mandatory information regarding goods, as well as the seller or the operator, of an electronic trading platform;

• the procedure for the pre-trial settlement of a dispute between parties to e-commerce;

• the rules for returning goods and monetary refunds.

Separately, such issues have been regulated as the protection of consumers’ rights and the approaches to electronic document flow.

Requirements have been put into place for electronic advertising communications.

The Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) will compile a register of goods that are restricted (banned) from being sold via the Internet across the EAEU.

The Agreement does not extend to exchange trade or the sale of securities and items of value in foreign currency.

A failure to comply with security measures constitutes a ground for provisional management

The Russian President’s Order No. 604 dated 24 August 2026

The Government is entitled to introduce provisional management in relation to enterprises for the failure to comply with security requirements.

Provisional management is stipulated in the following cases:

• a failure to undertake or timely undertake measures to ensure the security of critical infrastructure facilities;

• a breach of established security requirements;

• a threat being created to the security and uninterrupted functioning of critical infrastructure facilities;

• the functioning of such facilities not being restored or being restored late.

The Russian Federal Agency for State Property Management or another person will act as a provisional manager.

The list has been determined of such critical infrastructure facilities: facilities in the fuel and energy sector; industrial, communication, utilities, transportation and logistics infrastructure facilities; energy facilities; facilities that are vital for life; and critical or potentially hazardous facilities (see Pepeliaev Group’s comment).

The Government sub-commission will ensure that branches of economy function without interruption

The Russian Government’s Decree No. 1077 dated 26 August 2026

Among the tasks of the sub-commission are:

• to oversee that the functioning of CI facilities is restored in a timely fashion;

• to devise recommendations on how organisations should function without interruption.

The sub-commission is entitled to request information from authorities or businesses and to be advised by their delegates, as well as to provide recommendations to organisations/other persons as to how the procedures, deadlines and the amount of obligations and the operating mode of branches of the economy might be modified.