Russian Company and Commercial Legislation

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-926152-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 918 Seiten, Format (B × H): 179 mm x 255 mm, Gewicht: 1590 g

This volume focuses on the most essential foundation laws for the foreign investor and student of foreign economic relations. Translated from the Russian by Professor Butler, it covers legislation relating to insurance, insolvency, companies and partnerships, state and municipal enterprises, noncommercial organizations, civil rights, and foreign investment. Each law is prefaced by a detailed table of contents, and all translations are made from the official Russian texts, incorporating all amendments, changes, and additions, and including, where applicable, relevant decrees of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. Russian Company and Commercial Legislation will be published alongside Civil Code of the Russian Federation (0199261539) and the second edition of Professor Butler's acclaimed text on Russian Law (0199254001).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Butler, William E.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Editor's Introduction: On the Development of Russian Commercial and Company Legislation

- General Provisions

- Federal Law on Registration of Juridical Persons (8 August 2001)

- Federal Law on Licensing Individual Types of Activity (8 August 2001, as amended)

- Federal Law on Competition and the Limitation of Monopolistic Activity on Goods Markets (22 March 1991, as amended)

- Federal law on the Organization of Insurance Affairs (27 November 1992, as amended)

- Land Code of the Russian Federation (25 October 2001)

- Federal Law on the Turnover of Lands of Agricultural Designation (24 July 2002)

- Economic Societies and Partnerships

- Federal Law on Limited Responsibility Societies (14 January 1998, as amended)

- Federal Law on Joint-Stock Societies (26 December 1995, as amended)

- Federal Law on the Peculiarities of the Legal Status of Joint-Stock Societies of Workers (People's Enterprises) (19 July 1998)

- Federal Law on Financial-Industrial Groups (30 November 1995)

- Law on Banks and Banking Activities (2 December 1990, as amended)

- Federal Law on Insolvency (or Bankruptcy) (8 January 1998, as amended)

- Federal Law on Insolvency (or Bankruptcy) of Credit Organizations (25 February 1999, as amended)

- State and Municipal Unitary Enterprises

- Decree on Federal State Unitary Enterprises Based on the Right of Economic Jurisdiction (6 December 1999)

- Decree on the Transfer of Federal State Unitary Enterprises to the Ownership of Subjects of the Russian Federation (9 December 1999)

- Noncommercial Organizations

- Federal Law on Noncommercial Organizations (12 January 1996, as amended)

- Federal Law on Philanthropic Activity and Philanthropic Organizations (11 August 1995)

- Objects of Civil Rights

- Federal Law on the Securities Market (22 April 1996, as amended)

- Federal Law on Defence of the Rights and Legal Interests of Investors on the Securities Market (5 March 1999, as amended)

- Federal Law on Counteracting the Legalization (or Laundering) of Revenues Received by Criminal Means (7 August 2001)

- Federal Law on Pledge (29 May 1992, as amended)

- Federal Law on Mortgage (or Pledge of Immoveable) (16 July 1998, as amended)

- Federal Law on Finance Leasing (29 October 1998, as amended)

- Foreign Investment

- Federal Law on Foreign Investments in the Russian Federation (9 July 1999, as amended)

- Federal Law on Investments in the Form of Capital Investments (25 February 1999, as amended)

- Law on International Commercial Arbitration

Über Autor(innen)

William E. Butler is Professor of Comparative Law at University College London, an Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and Director of the Vinogradoff Institute, University College London. He was formerly Senior Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers CIS Law Firm in Moscow, and continues to have a Moscow-based consultancy practice in Russian law.