Restrictions and measures of state support for business: the digest for 9-22 June 2025

LEGISLATION

Ballot papers for voting in a JSC/LLC: requirements for checking a simple electronic signature

The Russian Government’s Decree No. 912 dated 18 June 2025

Comes into effect on 1 September 2027.

With a view to implementing the rules of Federal Law 287-FZ dated 8 August 2024, requirements have been approved for checking a simple electronic signature (SES) that is used to sign (verify) ballot papers in electronic form or electronic copies (scans) thereof as provided for in Laws No. 208-FZ “On joint stock companies” and 14-FZ “On limited liability companies” dated 26 December 1995 and 8 February 1998, respectively.

Specifically, the following has been stipulated:

• A SES is checked via the federal state unified information system for identification and authentication (UISIA);
• the use of this service also enables the verification of a SES of which the key is stored in the UISIA for at least five years, including if it has been replaced;
• the verification of a SES is carried out:
• with regard to ballot papers that are stored in a UISIA subsystem for checking the SES;
• by JSCs/LLCs that have voted at a general meeting with the use of a service;
• the UISIA operator provides access to the SES verification service for JSCs/LLCs;
• The result of the verification is supplied to the company in electronic form with the date / time of the verification being specified.

The rules of the national regime have been updated

The Russian Government’s Decree No. 879 dated 10 June 2025

Came into effect on 19 June 2025.

The procedure for applying the national regime to procurement has been adjusted (see the Russian Government’s Decree No. 1875 dated 23 December 2024).

In terms of confirming the country of origin of goods, the following has been stipulated:

• that the goods originate from Russia is also confirmed by a certificate regarding a special investment contract (‘SPIC’);
• with respect to the goods under items 1-433 of Annex No. 2 to Decree No. 1875, the country of origin is confirmed by it being specified in the application if there are no goods that the customer requires in the register of Russian industrial products, and the customer has specified this in the procurement notification (an exception applies).

The ban / restriction / advantage is not applied, among other things, to purchases of goods:

• under contracts that: (i) have been concluded with a person that is not a customer under laws Nos. 44-FZ and 223-FZ; (ii) were concluded with a person that was a customer under these laws before 1 January 2025;
• unless the price of each unit of goods exceeds RUB 300,000 and the starting maximum price of a contract / maximum value of the price of a contract with the sole supplier is below or equal to RUB 1 million or unless the product of the price of each unit of goods and the number of such units exceeds RUB 1 million;
• that are supplied under an individual order of the customer.