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Draft of Federal law of the Russian Federation
‘ON THE RELEASED AND DECOMMISSIONED MILITARY PROPERTY’
Summary:
This draft law concerns the reuse of state property formerly used by the armed
forces and associated institutions of the Russian armed forces. The law runs the
full gamut of military property from veterinary assets through to missile armaments.
The aims of decommissioning military property and the means of doing so are
described, as are the relevant powers of Russian government and other state
bodies in the process. The arrangement of the decommissioning work, accounting
and payment processes for different types of property are detailed. Control and
responsibility for the various elements of the work are also defined.
The present Federal Law shall define the regulations on release and further use of
the military property, assigned under the real-time management of the Armed
Forces of the Russian Federation, other troops, military units, army formations and
bodies. In the present Federal Law in compliance with the Legislation of the
Russian Federation the terminology used shall imply the following: “other troops” –
frontier troops of the Federal Frontier Service of the Russian Federation, internal
troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, railway troops of
the Russian Federation, troops of the Federal Agency of Governmental
Communication and Information under the President of the Russian Federation,
troops of civil defense;
-- “army formations” – engineering-technical and road-construction army formations
under the Federal executive bodies;
- “bodies” – the service of foreign reconnaissance of the Russian Federation,
bodies of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, bodies of the
Federal Frontier Service of the Russian Federation, Federal bodies of the
governmental communication and information, Federal bodies of the State guard
and the Federal body on provision of the mobilization training of the State
authorities of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as the Armed Forces
of the Russian Federation and other troops), and also the Federal executive
authorities being under the economic jurisdiction or real-time management of
enterprises and organizations, providing for military service (hereinafter referred to
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as the Federal executive authorities, providing for military service). The Law shall
define the powers and fix the legal and organizational fundamentals, as well as the
principles of activity of the State authorities of the Russian Federation, State
authorities of the constituents of the Russian Federation, local governmental
bodies, legal entities and physical persons, participating in the work on realization,
industrial utilization and liquidation of the decommissioned military property. The
Law shall apply to all constituents of the Russian Federation regardless of the
organizational-legal forms and types of property. In relation to other countries the
present Law shall be effective within the scope fixed by the corresponding
international treaties and the Legislation of the Russian Federation.
CHAPTER I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1. Basic Notions and Definitions Applied for the Purposes of the Present Law
The military property shall imply the property staying with the Armed Forces of the
Russian Federation and other troops under the rights of economic jurisdiction or
real-time management. The military property shall be in Federal ownership. The
military property shall include: all types of armaments and military equipment, fuel,
food, survival, aviation, aviation-technical, automobile, armored, clothing, militarytechnical (chemical, communication and others), engineering, lodging, medical,
crossing,
naval
stores,
veterinary
property
and
other
material
means,
accommodation, warehousing, service stocks, production enterprises of the Armed
Forces of the Russian Federation and other troops, as well as the one of the
Federal executive authorities providing for military service.
The released military property shall imply the property reduced in compliance with
the international treaties, as well as those going to excess, obsolete or physically
worn, not used or found no application in the Armed Forces of the Russian
Federation and other troops, as well as in the Federal executive authorities
providing for military service, the property to be released by the decision of the
balance holder.
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Decommissioned military property shall imply the military property written off the
books of the Balance Holders and conveyed in accordance with the established
procedure to the Parties of the activity on its sales, industrial utilization and
liquidation, obtained on the tender basis and in compliance with the contracts
concluded the right to realization of these types of activity.
The “Balance Holder” shall imply the structure of the Armed Forces of the Russian
Federation and other troops, as well as the one of the Federal executive bodies
providing for military service, which have the military property assigned to them in
accordance with the established procedure.
Participants of the activity on sales, industrial utilization, and liquidation of the
decommissioned military property (hereinafter referred to as participants of the
activity) shall imply the Federal executive authorities, defined by the State
Customer for the relevant period and the legal entities—contractors fulfilling the
work on sales, industrial utilization and liquidation of the decommissioned military
property (hereinafter referred to as contractors).
Military equipment shall imply the technical means designed for combat, technical
and base support of the troops’ activity, as well as the equipment and apparatuses
for control and testing of these means, constituents of these means and the
components.
The military equipment shall include: missile equipment of military purpose, space
equipment of military purpose, rocket-space equipment of military purpose, aviation
equipment of military purpose, naval equipment, armored equipment, military
automobile equipment, military communication equipment, equipment of military
reconnaissance, military equipment of topographic and geodesic support, military
equipment of radio-electronic struggle, military equipment of base support, military
instrumentation, military equipment of environmental safety control.
Armaments (combat shooting, artillery, torpedo, bomb armaments and others) shall
imply the means designed for destruction of living force, equipment, structures and
other facilities of the enemy, constituent parts of these means and components.
Weapons shall imply part of the weapons designed for hitting a target or
accomplishment of the tasks, promoting target hitting or obstructing the enemy’s
actions, and (or) providing delivery of the impact means to the target.
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Ammunitions shall imply the semi-expendable items of military equipment,
designed for hitting a target or accomplishment of the tasks promoting target hitting
or obstructing the enemy’s actions and containing bursting, dart, pyrotechnic,
ejection charge or their combination.
Complex of military equipment (armaments, weapons) shall imply the totality of the
functionally connected items of military equipment (armaments, weapons) and
technical means, providing their use, combined for accomplishment of the tasks in
compliance with their purpose, independently or within the system of military
equipment (armaments, weapons).
System of military equipment (armaments, weapons) shall imply the totality of
complexes of military equipment (armaments, weapons) and technical means,
providing their use, combined with the unified organization of functioning and
general control for accomplishment of the tasks, defined with its purpose.
Infrastructure shall imply the system of stationary facilities designed for providing
training, deployment and active actions of the troops (control stations, missile
positions, aerodromes, communication systems, warehouses, naval bases, ranges,
pipelines, railways and highways, etc.).
Realization shall imply the process of sales or transfer in compliance with the
Legislation of the Russian Federation of decommissioned military property to legal
entities or physical persons of the Russian Federation, as well as of the other
States.
Industrial utilization shall imply implementation of the complex of organizationaltechnical, scientific, economic, environmental, production and other activities,
providing demilitarization, diversification (re-profiling) and processing of the military
equipment items withdrawn from the armory, worked out life time, obsolete or
physically old equipment, including those reduced in compliance with the
international treaties, for alteration of their purposeful destination, further use for
production and business purposes, receipt of monetary funds, commercial products
and raw stuff. Industrial utilization may also be carried out in the cases when
continuation of storing the items of military equipment is connected with hazard to
human life, environment, as well as no need in this military property exists and it is
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not foreseen in future. Industrial utilization shall also be carried out with mandatory
account of environmental consequences.
Demilitarization shall imply conversion of the decommissioned military property into
the condition, excluding any opportunity of its combat use.
Diversification shall imply providing the items of decommissioned military property,
determined for industrial utilization, with new functions for use in the economic or
other purposes.
Liquidation shall imply the process of destruction of the decommissioned military
property, realized upon impossibility (infeasibility) of carrying-out the industrial
utilization or in case if this technique is envisaged with the international treaties of
the Russian Federation.
Use shall imply direct or after-industrial utilization (demilitarization, diversification)
use of the decommissioned military property in the economic or other purposes.
Double-Use Products shall imply products designed for the economic supplies and
needs of defense with unified requirements.
Industrial Utilization Products shall imply recycled resources (iron-and-steel scrap
and non-ferrous scrap; wastes containing precious stones and precious metals;
recovered explosives and other materials), constituent parts and components,
general civil items, as well as demilitarized arms and military equipment not
requiring industrial processing, destined for sales in accordance with the
established procedure in the domestic and external market.
Safety of Industrial Utilization (Liquidation) of Military Property shall imply lack or
minimization of hazard of damaging personnel, population, environment, and
production structures in the process of their performance.
Article 2. Legal Governing of Realization, Industrial Utilization and Liquidation of the
Decommissioned Military Property
Legal governing of realization, industrial utilization and liquidation of the
decommissioned military property shall be effected in compliance with the
Constitution of the Russian Federation, the present Federal Law, other Federal
laws and the legal acts of the Russian Federation, including the Federal Target
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Program of the Industrial Utilization of Armaments and Military Equipment for the
corresponding period (hereinafter referred to as Federal Program).
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Article 3. Aims of Realization, Industrial Utilization and Liquidation of the
Decommissioned Military Property
The main purposes of realization, industrial utilization and liquidation of the
decommissioned military property shall be as follows:
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reduction of the explosive and fire hazard level, as well as the hazard of
radioactive and chemical contamination of the environment in the places of storage
(warehousing) of armaments and military equipment;
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rational use of the material resources obtained within the process of industrial
utilization of the decommissioned military equipment for the economic or other
purposes;
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receipt of funds for covering the expenses connected with fulfillment of the cost-
is-no-object operations on industrial utilization (liquidation) of the decommissioned
military equipment, as well as the work on creation and perfection of new
technologies and scientific developments in these spheres;
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receipt of funds for carrying out of a military reform, settlement of the matters on
social security of the military persons, as well as the citizens, discharged from the
military service and members of their families;
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expansion of the military-technical cooperation domain on account of the activity
on realization of the military property utilization products.
Article 4. Basic Principles of Realization, Industrial Utilization and Liquidation of the
Decommissioned Military Property
1. The main principles of realization, industrial utilization and liquidation of the
decommissioned military property shall be as follows:
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safety of the utilization and liquidation process for the health of the population
and the personnel, as well as for the environment;
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economic efficiency of realization, industrial utilization, and liquidation;
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provision of the infrastructure re-profiling;
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mandatory realization of the double-use products;
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2. Realization of the provisions stated in Part 1 of the present Article shall be
achieved due to the following:
- arrangement of the industrial utilization (liquidation) of the decommissioned
military property by the technologies providing its economically effective reprocessing and resource-saving, as well as protection of the personnel and
population health and environmental safety of the activities;
- normative-technical support of the processes of utilization and liquidation;
- creation of competitive and economically necessary products in the process of
industrial utilization;
- provision of the contractors regardless of their organizational-legal forms and
forms of property with equal opportunities on participation in industrial utilization
and realization in the domestic and external markets of products, materials and
items, obtained in the process of industrial utilization of the decommissioned
military property on the basis of the State contracts concluded between the State
Customers and Contractors in compliance with the Legislation of the Russian
Federation;
- various financing sources of the activities on industrial utilization of the
decommissioned military property, including the foreign ones;
- fulfillment of work on industrial utilization of the decommissioned armaments and
military equipment along with inclusion in the structure of the State Defense Order
and financing both out of the budgetary funds and attraction of off-budgetary funds;
- use of the funds received from realization of the decommissioned military property
and products of utilization in compliance with the present Federal Law and legal
acts of the Russian Federation.
3. The work on use of the decommissioned military property shall be of systematic
character. The requirements of the most rational further use of military property
shall be included by the designers in the engineering-technical documentation
during creation of new items of military property and match with the Federal
programs.
4. Safety, security and preparation towards realization, industrial utilization and
liquidation of the released military property till the moment of its transfer to the
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Contractors, in compliance with contracts (agreements) shall be imposed on the
Federal executive authorities providing for military service.
CHAPTER II. POWERS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, CONSTITUENTS
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL BODIES ON
REALIZATION, INDUSTRIAL UTILIZATION AND LIQUIDATION OF THE
DECOMMISSIONED MILITARY PROPERTY.
Article 5. Powers of the State Authorities of the Russian Federation
The powers of the Russian Federation shall include:
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determination of the State policy, development, adoption and observance of the
Federal laws, other legal acts, programs and plans in the domain of realization,
industrial utilization and liquidation of the released and decommissioned military
property:
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conclusion and compliance with the international treaties of the Russian
Federation;
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coordination of the activities of the executive authorities of the constituents of
the Russian Federation;
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forming and fulfillment of the State Defense Order;
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development together with the concerned Federal executive authorities of the
proposals on the State support of the Contractors;
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development and realization of the measures on assistance in attraction of
investments, including the foreign ones, for industrial utilization and liquidation of
the decommissioned military property;
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licensing the Contractors’ activities;
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monitoring of the environmental and industrial safety during carrying out of the
activities on industrial utilization and liquidation of the decommissioned military
property in compliance with the Federal Legislation, normative acts of the Russian
Federation and international treaties concluded or ratified by the Russian
Federation.
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Article 6. Powers of the State Authorities of the Constituents of the Russian
Federation
The powers of the constituents of the Russian Federation shall include:
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participation in determination of the State policy in the domain of realization,
industrial utilization and liquidation of the released and decommissioned military
property;
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development and adoption in compliance with the Federal Legislation of laws
and other legal acts of the constituents of the Russian Federation;
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participation in development and realization of Federal programs and plans and
their realization;
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solving the problems of location of Contractors’ enterprises and organizations in
the territory of the constituents of the Russian Federation;
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solving of environmental questions;
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establishment with the State authorities of the Russian Federation of common
principles of economic stimulation, taxation, benefits and other types of stimulation.
Article 7. Powers of the Local Governmental Bodies.
The powers of the local governmental bodies shall include:
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coordination of the decisions on location of Contractors’ specialized enterprises
and organizations of local value in the dependent territory, their supply with all
types of energy resources, local materials, raw stuff and human resources, as well
as their provision with tax benefits and other types of support in compliance with the
Legislation of the Russian Federation and the local legal acts:
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assessment of the environmental situation in the dependent territory and
possible consequences from realization of the programs and plans on industrial
utilization and liquidation of the decommissioned military property and participation
in exercising control over safe conduct of work:
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information of the population on the safety level of the facilities and taking of
measures on elimination of possible consequences from industrial utilization and
liquidation of the decommissioned military property.
CHAPTER III. ARRANGEMENT OF THE WORK ON RELEASE, AS WELL
AS REALIZATION, INDUSTRIAL UTILIZATION, AND LIQUIDATION OF THE
DECOMMISSIONED MILITARY PROPERTY.
Article 8. Planning of the Nomenclature, Scopes and Dates of Military Property
Release.
1.
The Balance Holders, from the results of inventory, shall annually forward to
the Federal executive authorities providing for military service lists of military
equipment subject to release.
2. The lists and scopes of the released military property subject to realization,
industrial utilization and liquidation shall be planned by them on the basis of the:
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effective (concluded and ratified) Treaties of the Russian Federation with other
countries on reduction (liquidation) of armaments, combat equipment, weapons,
ammunitions and others;
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Federal programs;
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plans of re-armament and replacement of the out-of-date items of armaments
and equipment;
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forecasted quantity of the staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
and other troops;
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contents of the plans of combat, tactics-special and mobilization training,
planned exercises and marches;
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data on availability and condition of the military property, including the adopted
one and stored in the warehouses (storage bases and arsenals) ammunitions,
explosives of all types, components of missile fuel and other highly toxic (explosive)
substances;
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summary reports on the results of inventory and checks of military property;
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expected release as unnecessary of the accommodation, warehousing, and
service stocks, military towns, ports and berths, aerodromes, facilities of the
educational-material and production bases, ranges, shooting grounds, enterprises,
storage bases, as well as the territories (land and water bodies), where they are
located;
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plans of renewal (reinforcement) of mobilization reserves and resources;
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generalized information on the temporary free territories of ports and berths,
railway access ways and rolling stock, warehousing premises and production
areas, aerodromes, lines of communication, as well as opportunities of automobile
units, military-transport aviation and the Navy on shipping operations for the
economic purposes:
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requests received from other countries on procurements (deliveries) of military
property, as well as the list of the countries restricted in trade (supplies).
3. On the basis of the aforementioned lists the Federal executive authorities
providing for military service shall draw up summary lists of military property,
subject to release under their established forms (as for the military immovable
property—under the forms established by the Ministry of Privities of the Russian
Federation).
4. In the summary lists of the military property subject to release on the basis of the
expertise and assessments made by the specialists of the Federal executive
authorities by each type (item) of the released military property there shall be
reflected:
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quantity, reason (feasibility) of withdrawing the military property, its technical
condition, remaining life, periods of operation and storage, actual complement and
residual cost, defined by the Balance Holder in accordance with the established
procedure with account of specific peculiarities of military-use products, its
condition and market opportunities:
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proposals on its further use (realization, industrial utilization, liquidation), as well
as the form of their implementation:
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presence in the released items of the information constituting the State secret;
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degree of urgency of carrying out utilization (liquidation).
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5. Annually by the established date the summary lists of the military property,
subject to release by the Federal executive authorities providing for military service,
shall be forwarded to the Ministry of Privities of the Russian Federation.
6. The Ministry of Privities of the Russian Federation on the basis of the summary
reports of the military property subject to release shall prepare a draft plan of
realization, industrial utilization (liquidation) of the decommissioned military property
for the subsequent year (hereinafter referred to as Plan) and define the procedure
of its further use.
7. The draft Plan upon its coordination with the Ministry of Finance of the Russian
Federation in accordance with the established procedure (at the same time with the
draft Federal Budget) shall be passed to the Government of the Russian Federation
and after the consideration and approval in the Government of the Russian
Federation they shall be forwarded to the Federal executive authorities for
fulfillment.
8. The activities on utilization of armaments and military equipment included in the
State Defense Order shall be effected in compliance with the Legislation of the
Russian Federation on the State Defense Order;
9. Development of the first Plan shall be effected within the year following the year
of adoption of the present Law.
Article 9. Realization of the Decommissioned Military Immovable Property
1. Realization of the decommissioned military immovable property shall be effected
in compliance with the Legislation of the Russian Federation on privatization,
Russian Foundation of Federal Property, its branches, as well as by the State
Unitarian enterprises on realization of military property and authorized bodies of
military management on the basis of agency contracts concluded with it.
2. Modification of the category of the land plots assigned for the facilities of the
decommissioned military immovable property shall be effected by the Federal
Service of the Land Cadastre of Russia after the State registration of the rights to
the mentioned property.
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3. The information on realization of the decommissioned immovable property shall
be published by the Seller no later than 30 days prior to the realization of this
property.
4. The Transfer to the Buyer of the decommissioned military property and its
writing-off the books of the Balance Holder shall be effected only after transfer of
monetary funds to the Seller or immediately after fulfillment of the tender
(transaction) terms including the corresponding written notice of the Russian State
Property Fund within a five-day period.
5. If the decommissioned military property has not been realized within six months
after the tender then the Ministry of Privities of the Russian Federation shall take an
appropriate decision on it.
Article 10. Realization of the Decommissioned Movable Military Property.
1.
In order to settle the questions associated with realization of the
decommissioned movable military property, the Federal executive authorities
providing for military service shall define (create) an authorized body of military
management, define on tender basis the organizations via which its realization shall
be effected, elaborate the provision on the tender on selection of organizations, as
well
as
develop
the
procedure
of
withdrawal
from
realization
of
the
decommissioned movable military property and its further use.
The authorized body of military management shall conclude with organizations the
contracts on realization of the decommissioned movable military property, which
shall be effected:
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in the domestic market (movable military property under the list, annually
established by the Government of the Russian Federation)—by the regulations of
the sales of individual types of commodities, exchange, commission and retail
trade, as well as on the conditions of the contract of barter or gift;
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in the foreign market—in compliance with the Legislation of the Russian
Federation.
2. Upon permit of the Government of the Russian Federation it may be possible to
realize by the Federal executive authorities of the decommissioned military property
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via the organizations, attracted on the tender basis and financed out of the part of
the funds received as the result of realization of the decommissioned military
property.
3. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation shall be authorized to
transfer in accordance with the established procedure some types (items) of military
property with expiring operational dates to the organizations producing or have
produced these types of products for the purposes of redemption of the
indebtedness
for
the
delivered
products
or
fulfilled
work
(services)
on
modernization, repair and servicing of the military property.
The organizations in compliance with the Legislation of the Russian Federation
shall implement their realization in the domestic or foreign market, use as a reserve
property, as well as components in the new items of armaments and military
equipment, industrial utilization and realization of the utilization products.
4.
Realization of the decommissioned military property, located abroad, shall be
made by the authorized body of military management in compliance with the
Legislation of the Russian Federation with account of the norms of the international
law and the Legislation of the State, where this property is located.
Article 11. Arrangement of the Industrial Utilization (Liquidation) of the
Decommissioned Military Property
1.
The Federal executive authorities providing for military service, on the basis
of the summary lists of the military property subject to release shall arrange
activities on its utilization (liquidation), including carrying out of tenders and
participate in realization of licensing the activity of potential Contractors.
2.
Solving of the questions connected with industrial utilization of the
armaments and military equipment by the Federal executive authorities, providing
for military service, shall be imposed on the authorized bodies of military
management.
3.
The work on the industrial utilization and liquidation of the decommissioned
armaments, military equipment, special means of self-defense and ammunitions
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shall be effected in compliance with the Legislation of the Russian Federation within
the State Defense Order.
4.
The Contractors shall be passed the decommissioned armaments and
military equipment in demilitarized form, in complement without removal of blocks,
components and parts, containing precious and rare-earth metals and only upon
carrying out of the necessary measures providing maintenance of the State secret.
5.
The work on the industrial utilization (liquidation) of the decommissioned
military property requiring no special permit (license) fulfilled outside the State
Defense Order shall be done in compliance with contracts (agreements) concluded
between the authorized bodies of military management and Contractors.
6.
The contracts with Contractors shall be concluded at positive results of the
financial check of the Contractors by the audit bodies accredited with the Federal
executive authorities, providing for military service.
7.
The Contractors on industrial utilization of the decommissioned military
property shall be allowed to realize the utilization products under the procedure
fixed by the Legislation of the Russian Federation for the corresponding type of
product.
Article 12. Principles of the Finance Policy at Observance of the Present Federal
Law
1.
Financing of the work within the present Federal Law shall be effected out of
the funds of the Federal Budget assigned for fulfillment of the State Defense Order;
credits and loans, attracted under the State guarantees; funds of the Russian and
foreign investors; funds given by the international currency-credit organizations, as
well as the funds of other off-budgetary sources.
2.
It shall be possible to finance the work out of the off-budgetary funds of the
Federal executive bodies and commercial organizations created in accordance with
the established procedure.
3.
The monetary funds received from the products of utilization of armaments
and military equipment, included in the State Defense Order less the Contractors’
costs on carrying out of this work and their realization of the products, shall be fully
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accounted in the proceeds of the Federal Budget and forwarded for financing the
work on utilization of the armaments and military equipment, carrying out of the
military reform and solving of social questions within the Federal law “On the Status
of the Military Persons” in compliance with the legal acts of the Government of the
Russian Federation.
4.
The monetary funds received from realization of the products of the industrial
utilization of the decommissioned military property effected outside the State
Defense Order shall be forwarded in compliance with the terms of the contract
(agreement) to the Parties which concluded this contract (agreement) under the
procedure established by the Government of the Russian Federation.
5.
At compliance with the present Federal Law it shall not be admitted to impose
economic, environmental and financial damage to the Russian Federation,
diminishing of the National defense costs, damage of the State policy of militaryuse products price-formation, infringement of the interests of the activity
participants.
Article 13. Economic Stimulation of the Work on Industrial Utilization and
Liquidation of the Decommissioned Military Property
1.
Economic stimulation of the work on industrial utilization and liquidation of the
decommissioned military property included in the structure of the State Defense
Order shall be effected in compliance with the Legislation of the Russian Federation
on the State Defense Order.
2.
For economic stimulation of the Contractors under the procedure and within
the limits established by the Tax Legislation of the Russian Federation and the
constituents of the Russian Federation there shall be envisaged: release from
payment on part of the profit received from fulfillment of the work on industrial
utilization (liquidation) of the decommissioned military property and forwarded to
reconstruction and expansion of production;
- cut of the land tax on the land plots where are located the production complexes,
warehouses, and storage sites of the decommissioned military property.
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3.
The procedure and sizes of the economic stimulation shall be defined by the
Government of the Russian Federation during elaboration of the draft Federal
Budget and passed to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian
Federation for consideration and approval at the same time with the draft Federal
Budget and the draft Plan of realization, industrial utilization and liquidation of the
released military property for the subsequent year.
Article 14. Arrangement of Control and Responsibility for Fulfillment of the Present
Federal Law
1.
Control over fulfillment of the present Federal Law shall be effected by the
Return Chamber of the Russian Federation, Federal executive authorities,
providing for military service and the Ministry of Privities of the Russian Federation,
as well as the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation and the State
Customers on industrial utilization of armaments and military equipment in the part
relating to them.
2.
The executive authorities of the constituents of the Russian Federation and
the local governmental bodies shall effect control over location of the industries,
rational use of natural resources, environmental protection, social security of the
population and interact with the authorized bodies of military management,
organizations and enterprises on the issues associated with realization of the
Federal program and the Plan within the powers and the rights provided with the
Legislation of the Russian Federation.
3.
The Government of the Russian Federation, Federal executive authorities
and the executive authorities of the constituents of the Russian Federation shall
bear responsibility for fulfillment of the Federal program and the Plan related to the
tasks imposed on them.
4.
In the case of non-fulfillment, improper fulfillment, or infringement of the
Legislation of the Russian Federation, other legal acts or contractual obligations the
Parties (persons) shall bear civil-legal, administrative or criminal responsibility in
compliance with the Legislation of the Russian Federation.
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CHAPTER IV. FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 15. Procedure of Enforcement of the Present Federal Law.
The present Federal Law shall become effective from the date of its official
publication.
Article 16. Adjustment of the Legal Acts of the Russian Federation in Compliance
with the Present Federal Law.
1. The President of the Russian Federation shall be proposed and the Government
of the Russian Federation shall be commissioned to adjust the legal acts issued by
them in compliance with the present Federal Law.
2. The Government of the Russian Federation shall provide adjustment by the
Federal executive authorities of their legal acts in compliance with the present
Federal law, as well as to develop new normative documents required by them.
3. The legal acts of the Russian Federation and constituents of the Russian
Federation until they are adjusted with the present Federal law shall be applied in
the part not contradicting to the present Federal Law.
President
of the Russian Federation