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Pepeliaev Group advises that the Russian Supreme Court has significantly changed the approach to assessing the good faith of controlling persons in disputes over secondary liability, and has developed new criteria for assessing the connection between their actions and the bankruptcy of the debtor.

Pepeliaev Group advises that the Russian Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities has drafted a Resolution of the Russian Government to approve an exhaustive list of documents, data, materials and approvals for which Russian regulations provide and which are necessary for the implementation of a construction project.

Pepeliaev Group advises that the deputy Chairman of the Russian Government Viktoria Abramchenko has instructed the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources to carry out unscheduled field audits of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs who in 2020 disposed of waste from the use of goods based on agreements concluded with producers and importers of goods and packaging.

Pepeliaev Group advises that a new procedure has come into force for obtaining a permission to import unregistered medicines into the Russian Federation.

Pepeliaev Group advises that the Supreme Court's Judicial Board for Economic Disputes is considering the issue of a customer’s right under a fee-based contract for services to withdraw from it where such contract contains a take-or-pay condition.

Pepeliaev Group advises that, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation (the “CCI of Russia”) has adopted the Regulations on the certification by authorised chambers of commerce and industry of force-majeure circumstances under agreements (contracts) concluded in the context of domestic economic activity  (the “Regulations”).