27 october 2011
Background materials for the October 27, 2011 meeting of the Government of the Russian Federation
PRESS RELEASE*
The following issues are scheduled for discussion at the October 27, 2011 Government meeting:
1. The results of the transition to interagency electronic interaction in delivering state services
The materials, submitted by the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media, contain reports on the results of the work aimed at organising interagency interaction between federal executive bodies and state off-budget funds in delivering state services.
The Federal Law On Organising the Delivery of State and Municipal Services was passed in July 2010. Under the law, beginning from October 1, 2011 federal agencies have no right to demand from applicants (individuals and organisations) documents already in the possession of federal executive bodies and the bodies of state off-budget funds as well as organisations under their jurisdiction.
The materials contain the results of the following works:
● planning of interagency interaction;
● development of electronic interagency interaction services;
● change of regulatory legal acts to eliminate obstacles in the way of interagency interaction;
● express monitoring of the work of agencies in the new format of communication with applicants.
2. Progress in implementing and introducing amendments to the State Programme Information Society 2011-2020
The materials have been submitted by the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media and contain a report on the results of work to introduce amendments to the state programme Information Society 2011-2020.
The Programme is being fulfilled in two stages, from 2011 through 2014 and from 2015 through 2020. The two stages are necessary in order to review the results of the fulfillment of the Strategy of the Development of the Information Society in the Russian Federation and adjustment of the tasks of the information society’s development.
The main measures of the Programme are being implemented in the framework of four subprogrammes that ensure the fulfillment of its tasks.
After a review of the materials the following proposals have been made:
● to approve the proposed changes to the Programme on the whole;
● to instruct the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media, jointly with the Ministry of Economic Development, to submit to the Government within two months the Procedure of selecting projects by tender aimed at developing the information society in the constituent entities of the country and the list of priority areas in selecting the said projects for 2012 to the Government Commission for Integrating Information Technologies in the Work of the Government and Local Administrations;
● to instruct the Federal State Statistical Service, jointly with the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media and the federal executive bodies concerned, to submit to the Government within six months under established procedure proposals on the implementation of the Federal Plan of Statistical Work with due account for the forms of federal statistical monitoring that provides information to characterise the results of the Programme implementation according to the list of indicators of Programme implementation that are not official statistical data.
3. Measures to improve labour conditions and occupational health
The materials on the issue have been submitted by the Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development.
I. The situation in the sphere of labour conditions and occupational safety in the Russian Federation
A review of the situation in the sphere of labour conditions and occupational safety attests that the existing system of occupational safety management is costly and is oriented towards compensation and treatment of worker injuries and diseases and not towards preventing harm to the worker’s health.
Thus, the main aim of modernising the system of occupational safety management and constant improvement of labour conditions is the transition from the compensation and cost-oriented model of occupational safety management to a modern system of managing occupational risks that enables preventative approaches to occupational health to be implemented and all the types of costs connected with unfavourable labour conditions be reduced.
II. Measures implemented to modernise the system of occupational safety management
1. In order to harmonise the legislation of the Russian Federation in the sphere of occupational safety with the legislation of developed countries the International Labour Organisation’s Convention 187, the Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health has been ratified. In accordance with its provisions a system of occupational risk management in the workplace is being introduced and the main social partners – the state, the employers and the employees – are being involved in risk management.
The Government of the Russian Federation has submitted to the State Duma a draft law on the ratification of ILO Convention No.174 On the Prevention of Major Industrial Accidents.
2. For the purpose of forming a modern system of occupational risk management the following amendments have been introduced in the Labour Code of the Russian Federation:
● the concepts of “occupational risk” and “occupational risk management” have been introduced, and the procedure of financing measures to improve labour conditions and occupational safety has been established;
● occupational safety standards have been made mandatory for all employers;
● the procedure has been determined, together with the social partners, for the development, approval and amendment of normative legal acts containing normative occupational safety requirements on the state level.
3. To form the mechanisms of economic incentives for employers for improving labour conditions, the State Duma passed the draft law submitted by the Government which envisages, in the framework of mandatory social insurance against occupational accidents and diseases, direct dependence of the size of the discount on the insurance rate on the actual labour conditions at the enterprise.
For the purpose of regulating and increasing the responsibility of officials and employers for the violation of occupational safety requirements a federal law has been drafted On Introducing Amendments to the Code on Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation and Article 143 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The draft law is being finalised to be approved by the Presidential State Legal Directorate.
4. To improve the accuracy of labour conditions assessment and occupational risks the Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development has issued orders to form an independent system of rendering services in the field of occupational safety by introducing the procedure of mandatory accreditation of organisations rendering occupational safety services, a new procedure of attestation of workplaces in terms of labour conditions has been adopted which envisages procedures that are transparent for the employer and the employee, and a list of measurements has been approved to be carried out as part of the work to ensure safe labour conditions and occupational safety, including at hazardous production facilities.
5. For the purpose of protecting workers with the use of effective modern personal protection equipment, the Russian Government’s Resolution No.1213 of December 24, 2009 has approved technical regulations on personal protective equipment. Similar technical regulations have been developed on its basis for the Customs Union.
6. Pursuant to orders of the Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development, year-round nationwide monitoring of labour conditions and occupational safety is being conducted starting from 2010.
7. Pursuant to the instructions of the President of the Russian Federation and the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, to improve occupational safety in the most hazardous sectors of the economy a programme to ensure further improvement of labour conditions and enhance the safety of mining work, to reduce the rate of accidents and injuries in the coal industry and maintain the readiness of paramilitary mountain rescue and accident response units for 2011-2012 has been developed and is being implemented.
Furthermore, in order to prevent catastrophes similar to the one that occurred at Raspadskaya coalmine in 2010 and improve the working conditions in the coal industry several federal laws were passed in 2010.
III. The Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development jointly with the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of Education and Science proposed the following measures to improve the system of occupational safety management and the working conditions:
● development of an information system on the status of labour conditions and occupational hazards;
● modernisation of the system of occupational safety norms and their harmonisation with the legislation of developed countries on the basis of scientific research;
● improvement of labour legislation and development of the mechanisms of economic incentives for employers to improve labour conditions;
● improvement of the system of medical and preventative measures;
● upgrading the quality of training of occupational safety workers;
● improvement of the activities of executive bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the sphere of occupational safety.
4. The activities of the State Company Russian Automobile Roads in creating a network of long-distance roads and express highways
The materials have been submitted by the Ministry of Transport.
Under Federal Law No.145-FZ the State Company Russian Automobile Roads has been formed for the following purposes:
● to create and ensure effective functioning of a national network of long-distance and express highways (infrastructure goal);
● to save federal budget resources spent on the implementation of the infrastructure goal by optimising costs and creating an off-budget base for financing the sector (financial goal);
● to improve the management of the road sector by creating a global infrastructure investment company; the creation of new financial and business markets (institutional goal).
The company is a non-profit organisation created with contributions of property for the purpose of delivering government services and exercising other powers in the sphere of road management with the use of federal property on the basis of trust management.
In 2010 and 2011 the following highways have been transferred under the company’s trust management: M-4 Don, M-1 Belarus, M-3 Ukraine, M-11 “UC (under construction) express highway Moscow-St Petersburg and A-113 “UC Central Ring Highway (Moscow Region)”
In addition, the company has been vested with the rights to implement concession agreements Construction of a New Exit to the Moscow Ring Highway from the Federal M-1 Belarus Highway Moscow-Minsk and Construction of an Express Moscow-St Petersburg Highway on the Stretch from the 15th km to the 58th km.
As of today the Company has in its trust management 2,642.4 km of roads of which 52.4 km are toll roads.
Construction and reconstruction work is underway on the length of 667 km of roads in trust management.
The amount of federal budget subsidies made available to the Company to finance the activities of organising the construction and reconstruction of roads is 72 billion roubles in 2010 and 2011, and to finance activities of trust management, 15.8 billion roubles. By the end of 2011 this will permit:
● the operation 188.6 km of roads (121 km of roads were put in operation during 2010 and the three quarters of 2011 and a further 67.6 km of roads are to be put in operation in the 4th quarter of 2011);
● an increase by 319.2 km the length of the State Company’s automobile roads where limitations of capacity will be eliminated;
● improvements in road safety by increasing artificial lighting on 155.6 km of road length.
The amount of money raised by the State Company from off-budget sources in 2010-2011 will be 23.4 billion roubles.
The revenues from trust management activities during the said period will amount to 0.4 billion roubles and the revenues from its own activities will amount to 0.05 billion roubles.
The key document that sets the development priorities and targets for the work of the Company is The Long-Term Programme of the Company’s Activities (2010-2015).
As of today, amendments have been prepared for the programme of the activities of the state company Russian Automobile Roads for the long term (2010-2015).
The following reasons make it necessary to adjust the Programme:
● a change in the parameters of the Automobile Roads subprogramme of the federal targeted programme Development of the Russian Transport System (2010-2015) with respect to the amounts and sources of financing;
● the adjustment of the size of subsidies to the company from the federal budget;
● the creation of the Federal Road Fund;
● Recommendations of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia on extending the federal targeted programme Development of the Transport System of Russia (2010-2015) until 2019 with the aim of meeting the targets and indicators and fulfilling all the programme tasks.
As a result of the amendments being introduced the main parameters of the Programme are adjusted as follows.
The Programme is extended until 2019.
To meet the targets of road construction and reconstruction the Company will need 1,392.8 billion roubles in 2010-2019. Subsidies out of the federal budget will cover 70.1% of the said amount, off-budget investments will cover 26.5% and outlays from the Investment Fund of the Russian Federation 3.4%.
The amount of subsidies from the federal budget to finance the activities of road construction and reconstruction will be 976.7 billion roubles. The amount of off-budget financing will be 368.5 billion roubles (of which 47.1 billion roubles will be owned and borrowed money of concession-holders in relation to facilities to be financed jointly with the Investment Fund of the Russian Federation).
A range of works to build and modernise the following long-distance and express highways will be carried out during the programme period:
● M-4 Don – from Moscow via Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don, and Krasnodar to Novorossiisk (796 km);
● M-1 Belarus – from Moscow to the border with the Republic of Belarus (towards Minsk, Brest) (225 km);
● M-11 UC express highway Moscow-St Petersburg (614 km);
● M-3 Ukraine – from Moscow via Kaluga and Bryansk to the border with Ukraine (towards Kiev) (77 km);
● the Central Ring Road in the Moscow Region (202 km);
● approaches to the seaport of Novorossiisk as part of the comprehensive development of the Novorossiisk Transport Hub (9 km);
● express highway Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod-Kazan (bypass around the cities of Balashikha and Noginsk), etc.
The implementation of the above Programme during the course of the Company’s activities of road construction and reconstruction will result in 1,922.8 km of new roads being put in operation during the Programme period.
5. Draft federal law On Introducing Amendments to the Law of the Russian Federation On the Organisation of Insurance in the Russian Federation
The draft federal law has been submitted by the Ministry of Finance.
The draft law would define more clearly the objects of insurance, the characteristics of certain types of insurance, establish minimum (standard) requirements to the terms of insurance and enhance the responsibility of insurance intermediaries.
The draft law, among other things, will spread financial risk insurance not only to entrepreneurs, but to citizens who, if an insured event occurs, may incur additional costs and who need to be compensated to make up for loss of income. That applies in the first place to the expenditure incurred by persons going abroad because an effective insurance contract is necessary for obtaining exit visas, as well as insurance against loss of earnings (income) as a result of job loss, bankruptcy of the employer or other organisation in which citizens have invested their money under corresponding contracts.
The draft law spells out requirements for the maintenance by the insurance supervisory body of a unified state register of insurance subjects and makes it binding on insurers to inform their clients on the activities of the insurer and the insurance terms offered.
6. Draft federal law On Introducing Amendments to the Code of the Russian Federation On Administrative Offenses (Concerning the Procedure of Administrative Arrest)
The draft federal law has been submitted by the Ministry of Interior.
Under Part 3, Article 55 of the Constitution the rights and freedoms of an individual and citizen may be limited by federal law.
At the same time under Part 4, Article 32.8 of the Code on Administrative Offenses currently in effect, the procedure of administrative arrest involving a limitation of the rights and freedoms of the person subjected to this kind of administrative punishment are regulated by the Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation On Approving the Statute on the Procedure of Serving Administrative Arrest.
In this regard the draft law proposes an amendment to Article 32.8 of the Code on Administrative Offenses whereby administrative arrest will be served according to a procedure envisaged by the federal legislation.
In addition, to enhance state protection of the rights and freedoms of the individual and citizen provisions are to be added to the said article of the Code on Administrative Offenses that make it possible for the judge to suspend or terminate the enforcement of a ruling on administrative arrest in the event the person subjected to administrative arrest experiences extraordinary circumstances (death or serious life-threatening illness of a close relative; a natural disaster that has caused significant material damage to the person under administrative arrest or to his family).
The persons whose administrative arrest has been suspended and who fail to return by the set deadline to the place of administrative arrest will be detained by police pending their transfer to the place of administrative arrest and will be subject to administrative liability under Article 20.25 of the Code on Administrative Offenses.
The corresponding amendments are to be introduced in Articles 20.25, 31.6 and 32.8 of the Code on Administrative Offenses.
7. Draft federal law On the Procedure of Serving the Term of Administrative Arrest
The draft federal law has been submitted by the Ministry of Interior.
The proposal on legislative regulation of the procedure of serving administrative arrest which is currently regulated by the Government Resolution On Approving the Regulations on the Procedure of Serving Administrative Arrest has been prompted by the fact that this type of administrative punishment involves a limitation of the rights and freedoms of the individual and citizen. Therefore, to comply with the provisions of part 3, Article 55 of the Constitution a corresponding federal law needs to be passed.
The draft law is aimed at improving the procedure of serving administrative arrest and at harmonising it with universally recognised norms of international law.
The objects of legal regulation under the draft law are social relations connected with the establishment of the procedure of serving administrative arrest by persons subjected to that type of administrative punishment.
8. Draft federal law On Introducing Amendments to Article 28 of the Federal Law On Sanitary-Epidemiological Wellbeing of the Population and Article 6.7 of the Code of the Russian Federation On Administrative Offenses
The draft federal law has been submitted by the Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development.
Currently the Code on Administrative Offenses envisages no liability for violating the sanitary and epidemiological requirements to the conditions in children’s rest and health facilities. Under Article 6.7 of the Code such liability exists only with respect to the conditions of upbringing and education (fines of between 2,000 and 3,000 roubles for officials and of between 20,000 and 30,000 roubles for legal entities).
Such insufficient and inadequate responsibility of officials and legal entities may result in the fact that children staying in rest and health facilities may fall group-wide ill. The draft federal law introduces amendments to the federal law On Sanitary and Epidemiological Wellbeing of the Population that make it mandatory to carry out measures to prevent diseases, to maintain and improve health, including with respect to catering, and to comply with the requirements of sanitary legislation at children’s rest and health facilities irrespective of their legal form.
By the same token, the draft law introduces amendments to the Code on Administrative Offenses aimed at making officials and legal entities liable for non-compliance with the sanitary and epidemiological requirements to the conditions due at children’s rest and health facilities.
The violation of such requirements will carry fines for officials of between 3,000 and 7,000 roubles and for legal entities of between 30,000 and 70,000 roubles. If the violation is repeated within a year the size of the fine for officials will be between 10,000 and 15,000 roubles and for legal entities between 100,000 and 150,000 roubles.
Similar fines are established for violating the sanitary and epidemiological requirements to the conditions of upbringing and education.
9. Submitting to the President of the Russian Federation a proposal to sign the Council of Europe Convention on the Counterfeiting of Medical Products and Similar Crimes Involving Threats to Public Health
The draft has been submitted by the Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development.
The Council of Europe Convention on the Counterfeiting of Medical Products and Similar Crimes Involving Threats to Public Health
is the first European agreement aimed at combating the counterfeiting of medical goods that covers the criminal law and organisational aspects and has a distinct humanitarian character in that it treats as a priority the task of stopping and preventing threats to public health created by crimes in this sphere.
The signing of the Convention would strengthen Russia’s authority in the world, promote interaction with the World Health Organisation and other international organisations involved in combating the counterfeiting of medicines and medical products and will strengthen the country’s negotiating position in cooperation with the European Union, the USA, Japan, China and other world leaders in the production of medicines and medical products.
10. Submitting to the President of the Russian Federation a proposal on the Russian Federation’s acceding to the Convention on Combatting Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions
The draft resolution has been submitted by the Ministry of Foreign Affaiars and Ministry of Justice.
The draft resolution proposes to submit to the President a proposal on the Russian Federation’s joining the Convention on Combatting Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions.
At present all the countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (hereinafter OECD) are members of the Convention: Australia, Austria, Belgium, the UK, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Israel, Spain, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Canada, the Republic of Korea, Luxemburg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, the USA, Turkey, Finland, France, the Czech Republic, Chile, Sweden, Switzerland, Estonia, Japan, as well as Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria and South Africa which are not OECD members.
Under the Convention the signatory states undertake, in their legislation to make it a crime to “intentionally offer, promise or give any undue pecuniary or other advantage” to a foreign public official… in order that the official act or refrain from acting in relation to the performance of official duties, in order to obtain or retain business or other improper advantage in the conduct of international business. The national legislations of the member states must also establish liability of legal entities for such actions.
At the same time in order to implement the Convention it is necessary that the national laws of the member states provide for an effective mechanism of mutual legal assistance with respect to such crimes and administrative offenses.
Any OECD member state, as well as an OECD non-member state, is free to join the Convention.
Accession to the Convention is one of the preconditions for joining the OECD.
On February 6, 2009 the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs notified the OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria of Russia’s intention to accede to the Convention and sent a corresponding formal application to the OECD.
The OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business is satisfied that Russian legislation complies with the provisions of the Convention because it contains the Federal Law On Introducing Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the Code of the Russian Federation On Administrative Offenses as part of improving state management in the field of combating corruption.
In making its decision the OECD Working Group took into account the clarifications of the Russian delegation on the following issues: in accordance with Russian legislation, the offer or promise of money, securities or other pecuniary or other advantages stipulated under clause 1, Article 1 of the Convention is an act that creates conditions for the perpetration of a crime and is to be prosecuted as preparation for giving a bribe;
under clause 2, Article 3 of the Convention the Russian Code on Administrative Offenses envisages liability of legal entities for bribing foreign public officials;
improper pecuniary or other advantages referred to in Article 1 of the Convention denote money, securities and other properties or paid-for material services rendered for free (tourist vouchers, repair of an apartment, construction of a country house, etc.) or any other material rights (understating the cost of property transferred to private companies, reduction of the cost of lease, interest rates on bank loans and the like); in accordance with the Recommendations of the OECD Council concerning taxation in the process of further combating the bribing of foreign public officials in international business transactions dated May 25, 2009; the money intended to bribe foreign officials or used for these purposes and any other expenses incurred in performing illegal actions stipulated under the Convention and the legislation of the Russian Federation are not exempt from tax under Articles 171 and 217 of the Tax Code.
An exchange of letters on the accession of the Russian Federation to the Working Group took place during the 50th jubilee Ministerial Conference of the OECD on May 25, 2011.
Because the subject of the Convention is basic human rights and freedoms, pursuant to subclause B, Clause 1, Article 15 of the Federal Law On International Treaties of the Russian Federation the accession of the Russian Federation to the Convention, in accordance with subclause A, Clause 1, Article 21 of the said federal law must take the form of a federal law.
11. Submitting to the President of the Russian Federation a proposal to sign the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Commission
The draft resolution has been submitted by the Ministry of Economic Development.
The treaty sets forth the general principles of the functioning of the Eurasian Economic Commission as the standing supranational regulatory body in the framework of the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space.
The Treaty envisages the establishment of the Commission’s Council and the Commission’s Collegium, sets down the procedure for their formation as well as for decision-making by the Council and the Collegium for the purpose of exercising the powers delegated to the commission under international treaties signed in the framework of the formation of the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space.
The Treaty is subject to ratification pursuant to the Federal Law On International Treaties of the Russian Federation.
12. Submitting to the President of the Russian Federation for introducing for subsequent ratification the Treaty on a Free Trade Zone
The draft resolution has been submitted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairsa and the Ministry of Economic Development.
The draft resolution would approve and submit to the President of the Russian Federation for introducing for subsequent ratification by the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation the Draft Law On Ratification of the Treaty on a Free Trade Zone.
The Treaty provides the necessary conditions for the full-fledged and effective functioning of a free-trade zone in the CIS space and creates favourable conditions for the further deepening of integration on the basis of the norms of the World Trade Organization.
The Treaty will replace the current free-trade agreements, both bilateral and multilateral, between CIS member states.
13. Introducing amendments to certain acts of the Government of the Russian Federation
The draft resolution has been submitted by the Ministry of Economic Development.
The draft resolution is aimed at implementing the provisions of the Law On Bankruptcy and introduces corresponding amendments to the statutes on the Ministry of Economic Development and the Federal Registration Service (Rosreyestr).
The Ministry of Economic Development is empowered to pass regulatory legal acts that establish, among other things, requirements to electronic trading floors, requirements to the operators of electronic trading floors, requirements to the liability of operators of electronic trading floors, the procedure of electronic trading, the procedure of confirmation of compliance of the participants in the trading with the requirements to closed trading during the course of the procedures applied in the case of bankruptcy as well as the procedure of confirming the compliance of electronic trading floors and related operators with the requirements of the Law on Bankruptcy.
The Ministry of Economic Development, for the purpose of exercising its powers in the said sphere and in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Bankruptcy, is also vested with additional rights, in particular:
● in conducting procedures of bankruptcy with regard to certain categories of debtors to determine other amounts and (or) procedure of payment of the costs of the proceedings as well as to establish other amounts and (or) procedure of paying remuneration to the receiver;
● in setting requirements to the credit rating of the issuer of securities (the bonds of Russian issuers, the shares of Russian issuers created in the form of open joint stock companies, mortgage securities issued under the laws of the Russian Federation on mortgage securities) which allow for the placing of assets from the compensation fund of receiving self-regulating organisations in accordance with its investment declaration;
● in establishing requirements to the credit rating of state securities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and the shares of Russian issuers created in the form of open joint-stock companies which allow for the placing of assets from the compensation fund of receiving self-regulating organisations in accordance with its investment declaration;
● in determining any other types of property (including property rights) subject to be sold electronically during procedures applied in a bankruptcy case.
The draft resolution would also introduce amendments to the statute on Rosreyestr relieving it of the function of control (supervision) of the activities of receiving parties.
14. Introducing amendments to certain acts of the Government of the Russian Federation on transport issues
15. Introducing an amendment to the Statute on the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation
The draft resolution has been submitted by the Ministry of Transport.
The federal law On Automobile Roads and Road Activities in the Russian Federation and On Introducing Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation established earlier that temporary restrictions or suspension of traffic on roads (of whatever form of ownership) should follow the procedure established by the federal executive body authorised by the Government. Accordingly, the Statute on the Ministry of Transport includes a provision that vests the Ministry of Transport with the power to establish the procedure of introducing such temporary limitations with regard to all automobile roads (federal, regional, inter-municipal, local and private).
The federal law On Introducing Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation introduces an amendment to Part 2, Article 30 of the Federal Law whereby the government-authorised federal executive body (the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation) establishes the procedure of temporary restriction of traffic only on federal roads and private roads, while the procedure of such restrictions with regard to regional, inter-municipal and local roads is established by the corresponding executive bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and of local government bodies.
The adoption of this draft resolution will bring the Statute on the Ministry of Transport in line with the new edition of the Federal Law.
16. Introducing amendments to the Statute on the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
The draft resolution has been submitted by the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
The plan for preparing draft regulatory legal acts required to implement the federal law On Technical Inspection of Transport Means and introducing amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation vests the Ministry of Industry and Trade with the powers to approve:
● the qualification requirements to technical experts;
● the basic technical characteristics of the diagnostic equipment and the list thereof.
To provide legal grounds for the said ministry to exercise such powers corresponding amendments to the Statute on the Ministry of Industsry and Trade need to be introduced.
17. Introducing amendments to the Statute on the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation
18. Introducing an amendment to the Statute on the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation
The draft resolution has been submitted by the Ministry of Finance.
The plan of the preparation of regulatory legal acts required for the implementation of the Federal Law On Technical Inspection of Transport Means and on Introducing Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation would vest the Ministry of Finance with the authority to approve the procedure of the provision of forms for technical inspection cards and forms for international technical inspection certificates as well as accounting, custody, transfer and destruction of such forms. To provide legal grounds for the said ministry to exercise such powers a corresponding amendment to the Statute on the Ministry must be introduced.
19. Distributing subsidies to the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in support of measures to balance the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in 2011
The draft resolution has been submitted by the Ministry of Finance.
The draft resolution proposes to approve:
● the methods of distributing subsidies between the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in support of measures to balance the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in 2011 in order to finance the expenditure commitments of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the event of shortage of the revenues of the consolidated budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation;
● distribution of subsidies to the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federatioto balance the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation for 2011.
The balance of the subsidies earmarked by the government in support of measures to balance the budgets amounted to 26.7 billion roubles as of October 20, 2011.
To be distributed are subsidies in the amount of 22.3 billion roubles, including 15.1 billion roubles to finance the expenditure commitments of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation if their own revenues of consolidated budgets are not sufficient, and 7.2 billion roubles pursuant to certain directives of the President and (or) instructions of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
The distribution of subsidies has been prepared on the basis of proposals made by federal executive bodies interacting on the issues of distribution and disbursement of subsidies in support of measures to balance the budgets.
I. Distribution of subsidies to finance the execution of expenditure commitments of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation if their own consolidated budgets revenues are not sufficient.
Such resources are distributed on a formal basis in accordance with the attached methodology for the purpose of partially compensating the additional expenditure commitments of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation connected with the increase of pay to teachers at general education institutions as of September 1, 2011 and the employees of state-financed organisations as of October 1, 2011, as well as the increased cost of fuel oil and electricity.
These items are to be subsidised to the tune of 15.1 billion roubles, to be distributed among the budgets of 60 constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
II. Distribution of subsidies pursuant to the directives of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev:
● to the budget of the Republic of Adygea to balance the republican budget;
● to the budget of the Amur Region to provide housing for citizens who are shareholders in construction and who have been affected by the actions (inaction) of developers in the city of Blagoveshchensk.
III. Distribution of subsidies pursuant to the instructions of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin:
● to the budget of the Republic of Buryatia for the repair of the stretch of the regional public road Ulan-Ude – Turuntayevo - Kurumkan – Novy Uoyan;
● to the budget of the Republic of Ingushetia to finance the Southern Russia federal targeted programmes and Social-Economic Development of the Republic of Ingushetia in 2010-2016, complete the construction of the Rehabilitation Centre for disabled children in the city of Magas, a school in the city of Malgobek, raise wages for employees of public sector and municipal institutions, modernise utilities infrastructure during the construction of residential houses in the village of Yandar and other socially significant expenditure commitments;
● to balance the budget of the Republic of Kalmykia;
● to the budget of the Karachayevo-Circassian Republic to finance the programmes of modernisation of healthcare and education as well as the construction of a sports facility following the team victory at the Caucasian Games festival;
● to balance the budget of the Republic of Mordovia;
● to the budget of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania to finance the activities of interior bodies that are funded out of the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and the local budgets and the maintenance of the Interior Ministry staff that exceeds the standard size of staff;
● to the budget of the Trans-Baikal Territory for the relocation of the families resident on the territory of the rural settlement Stepninskoye in connection with the disbanding of the military units of the Steppe Garrison;
● to the budget of the Krasnodar Territory to finance major repairs and repair of courtyards of apartment blocks, drive-ups to courtyards of apartment blocks in the city of Sochi;
● to the budget of the Stavropol Territory to finance the holding of the Mashuk North Caucasus Youth Forum;
● to the budget of the Arkhangelsk Region to finance work to prevent accidents and provide equipment for the University Lomonosov Gymnasium;
● to the budget of the Astrakhan Region to complete the construction of a 7,000-seat sporting and spectator facility in the city of Astrakhan (swimming pool);
● to the budget of the Voronezh Region to complete the construction of a Youth Palace in the city of Rossosh;
● to the budget of the Irkutsk Region to finance the construction of the building of the regional state Molchanov-Sibirsky Universal Scientific Library;
● to the budget of the Nizhny Novgorod Region to finance the completion of the metro bridge with a metro branch linking the part of the city across the river to the cultural and historic centre of the city of Nizhny Novgorod;
● to the budget of the Penza Region to complete the construction of an ice sports arena in the city of Penza;
● to the budget of the Pskov Region to finance the events connected with the 1150th anniversary of the city of Izborsk;
● to the budget of the Rostov Region to compensate for the cost in connection with the liquidation of the Azov City Gambling Zone;
● to balance the budget of the Tver Region;
● to balance the budget of the Tula Region;
● to balance the budget of the Chukotka Autonomous Area.
After the distribution of the said amount of 22.3 billion roubles the balance of undistributed subsidies in support of measures to balance budgets amounts to 4.4 billion roubles.
20. Signing the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters of January 25, 1988 as amended by the Protocol of May 27, 2010
21. Introducing an amendment in the composition of the of the Government Presidium of the Russian Federation
22. Issuing to the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Adygea state housing certificates for the citizens who lost their homes as a result of the emergency situation that occurred on the territory of the Republic of Adygea in May 2011
23. Allocating to the Government of the Republic of Dagestan budgetary proviasions from the Reserve Fund of the Government of the Russian Federation for the Prevention and Liquidation of Emergency Situations and the Aftermath of Natural Disasters to finance the cost of compensation to physical persons who sustained damage as a result of the terrorist act perpetrated in Makhachkala, Dagestan, on September 4, 2010.
Moscow, October 26, 2011
* Press releases by the Department of Press Service and Information are based on the materials submitted by the executive federal bodies for discussion by the Government meeting
