Restrictions and measures of state support for business: the digest for 17–30 March 2025

DRAFT LAWS

How will small-scale procurement be regulated?

The draft federal law

Public discussions are now taking place.

Amendments have been drawn up to Federal Law No. 44-FZ dated 5 April 2013.

Specifically, it has been proposed that:

• a single catalogue of particular products (SCPP) be created;

• the procedure be established for small-scale procurement to be conducted based on an e-shop principle. With the use of the SCPP, parties to procurement will generate their bids and customers will set the volume of the procurement, while information systems will automatically select the best bids for the customers;

• provision be made for an opportunity to refuse to enter into a contract with a customer/party to procurement;

• the requirement be ruled out for security to be provided that the contract will be performed;

• information systems be assigned the status of an electronic platform and system operators have the status of an operator of an electronic platform, and that the list of them be approved;

• a special type of electronic platforms be maintained for small-scale procurement.

It is planned that the amendments will come into force on 1 January 2026.

The rules have been devised for charges to be paid on income from advertising on the Internet

The Russian Government’s draft decree

Public discussions are now taking place.

In pursuance of article 18.2 of Federal Law No. 38-FZ “On advertising” dated 13 March 2006 (comes into force on 1 April 2025), it has been proposed to adopt the procedure for assessing the compulsory charges for the distribution of advertising on the Internet and to oversee how these charges are paid.

The following have been established, among others: the regularity 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 any facts of incomplete payment are revealed, the regulator Roskomnadzor will be authorised to:

• notify the payer of the violations and provide a possibility to substantiate same;

• forward a notification of the arrears to be paid; and

• collect the arrears through court action.

Also on the subject:

The Russian Government’s draft decree

Public discussions are now taking place.

It has been proposed that the regulator Roskomnadzor be vested with the powers to calculate the compulsory charges for the distribution of advertising on the Internet and to oversee how these charges are paid.

LEGISLATION

Freight carriers from Moldova have been banned from transporting cargoes across Russia

The Russian Government’s Decree No. 362 dated 25 March 2025

Came into force on 28 March 2025, except for individual provisions.

A ban has been established on freight carriers from the Republic of Moldova performing international truck haulage across Russia (see the Russian Government's Resolution No. 1728 dated 30 September 2022).