Joining the agreement to extend for 2017-2019 and amend the federal sector-related agreement for road industry concluded for 2014-2016 Law firm Pepeliaev Group advises that an agreement has been adopted at the federal level to extend the sector-related agreement. The sector-related agreement sets additional obligations and automatically extends to companies in the road industry sector. To refuse to join the extension agreement, a well-grounded refusal should be submitted to the Russian Ministry of Labour by 20 April 2017. 

New rules for collecting charges for an adverse impact on environment Law firm Pepeliaev Group advises that on 17 March 2017 new Rules came into effect for calculating and collecting charges for an adverse impact on environment. These Rules replace the previous version of the Rules that was in effect since 1992.*

Amounts of state duties for the registration of medicines for human use and medical devices and the procedures for paying such duties have been established across the Eurasian Economic Union. Pepeliaev Group advises that the amounts and payment procedures have been established with respect to state duties to be paid for the registration by authorised agencies of medicines for human use and medical devices across the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU)*.

The procedure for creating the registration dossier for a biomedical cell product and fees for the state registration of such products have been officially approved Pepeliaev Group advises that new legal regulation has been approved of the state registration of biomedical cell products (“BMCPs”).

Joining the agreement regarding the extension of the sector-based agreement for 2014-2016 for the russian aviation industry to 2017-2019 Law firm Pepeliaev Group advises that an agreement has been adopted at the federal level to extend the sector-based agreement. The latter sets additional obligations and automatically extends to companies in Russia's aviation industry. To refuse to join the extension agreement, a well-grounded refusal should be submitted to the Russian Ministry of Labour by 14 April 2017.

Joining the federal sector-based agreement for the extension for 2014-2016 of the sector-based agreement for motor and ground-based urban passenger transport for 2017-2019 At the federal level, an agreement has been adopted to extend the sector-based agreement. The extension agreement sets additional obligations and automatically applies to companies in motor and ground-based urban passenger transport. To refuse to join the extension agreement, a well-grounded refusal in writing should be submitted to the Russian Ministry of Labour by 17 March 2017.

Joining the federal sector-based agreement for 2017-2019 in housing and utilities At the federal level, a sector-based agreement has been adopted which sets additional obligations and automatically extends to companies in housing and utilities. To refuse to join the agreement, a well-grounded refusal in writing should be submitted to the Russian Ministry of Labour by 17 March 2017.

Joining the agreement regarding the extension of the sector-based agreement for 2014-2016 for companies in the oil and gas industries and construction companies that build oil and gas facilities for 2017-2019 At the federal level, an agreement has been adopted to extend the sector-based agreement. The extension agreement sets additional obligations and automatically applies to companies in the oil and gas industries and to construction companies that build oil and gas facilities. To refuse to join the agreement, a well-grounded refusal in writing should be submitted to the Russian Ministry of Labour by 17 March 2017.

State Commercial (‘Arbitration’) Court for the Moscow circuit: parties may set a special procedure for exercising their right to withdraw from a contract Law firm Pepeliaev Group advises that Commercial Court for the Moscow Circuit has issued a decision in which it upheld the argument of Thomson Reuters (Markets) SA, a client of Pepeliaev Group, that the provisions of a fee-based contract for information services were lawful and bound the customer when stipulating that the contract terminated 12 months after the customer gave notice of its withdrawal from the contract.

Changes in legislation concerning self-regulating organisations in the sphere of engineering surveying, design and construction Pepeliaev Group advises that starting from 1 July 2017, changes will come into effect in the Russian Town-Planning Code and other laws in terms of regulating the activities of self-regulating organisations (“SROs”) in the sphere of construction, reconstruction, major repairs (collectively referred to as “construction”), engineering surveying, and design in relation to facilities undergoing capital construction work.

Personal Data Pepeliaev Group advises that, from 1 July 2017, there will be substantial increases in fines for violations of personal data legislation.

New good practice for the storage and transportation of medicines intended for human use Law firm Pepeliaev Group advises that on 9 January 2017 the Russian Ministry of Justice registered Order No. 646n of the Russian Ministry of Healthcare “On approving the Good Practice for the Storage and Transportation of Medicines Intended for Human Use” dated 31 August 2016 (“GPST”).