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                                DECISION
               OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
                       NO. 620 OF AUGUST 18, 2008
     ON THE CONDITIONS FOR GRANTING WITHOUT TAIL PRIMARY STATISTICAL
   AND ADMINISTRATIVE DATA TO SUBJECTS OF OFFICIAL STATISTICAL RECORDS

     In accordance with Article 8 of the  Federal  Law  on  the  Official
Statistical Records and the System of State  Statistics  in  the  Russian
Federation the Government of the Russian Federation resolves:
     To approve the appended Regulations for the Conditions for  Granting
Without Fail Primary Statistical and Administrative Data to  Subjects  of
Official Statistical Records.

Chairman of the Government                      
of the Russian Federation                                Vladimir Putin

                             The Regulations
    for the Conditions for Granting Without Fail Primary Statistical
   and Administrative Data to Subjects of Official Statistical Records
                 (approved by Decision of the Government
          of the Russian Federation No. 620 of August 18, 2008)

     1. The present Regulations  define  the  conditions  for  presenting
without fail primary statistical and administrative data to  subjects  of
official statistical records.
     2.  the  presentation  by  respondents  without  fail     of primary
statistical and administrative data to subjects of  official  statistical
records  shall  be  effected  with  the  observance  of   the   following
conditions:
     a) the formation by subjects of official statistical records on  the
basis of primary statistical administrative data of official  statistical
information;
     b) the presence of the forms of the federal statistical observation,
approved in the established order and of directions for their completion;
     c) the bringing by subjects of official statistical records  of  the
slips of  the  forms  of  the  federal  statistical    observation and of
directions on the their completion to their respondents;
     d) the presence of a  written  inquiry  by  a  subject  of  official
statistical records about the presentation of administrative data or  the
agreement on the information interaction between the subject of  official
statistical records and the respondent who receives administrative data.
     3. Primary statistics shall be presented without fail free of charge
to subjects of official statistical records by the respondents set up  on
the territory of the Russian Federation by the juridical persons,  organs
of  state  power  and  local   self-government   bodies,     by branches,
representations and subdivisions of foreign organisations acting  on  the
territory of the Russian Federation.
     Respondents who are citizens carrying out business activity  without
the setting up a  juridical  person  on  the  territory  of  the  Russian
Federation shall be obliged to submit free of charge to the  subjects  of
the official statistical records primary statistical data associated with
their business activity.
     The respondents - subjects of small and middle business shall submit
primary statistics in a  simplified  procedure  in  accordance  with  the
Federal Law on the Development of Small and Medium-sized  Business  
in the Russian Federation. 
     4. Primary statistic data shall be submitted to the subjects of  the
official statistic records by the respondents indicated in Item 3 of  the
present Regulations according to the established  forms  of  the  federal
statistical observation  in  conformity  with  the  directions   on their
completion at the addresses in  the  periods  and  with  the  periodicity
indicated on the slips of these forms.
     The forms of the federal statistical observation and the  directions
on their completion shall be approved by  the  Federal  State  Statistics
Service upon the proposal of subjects of  official  statistical  records,
unless otherwise is established by federal laws.
     The subjects of the official statistical  records  shall  place  the
forms of the federal statistical  observation  and  directions  on  their
completion on their official sites in the Internet.
     The subjects of the official statistical records shall bring free of
charge to the notice of respondents the slips of the forms of the federal
statistical observation and directions on their completion.
     5.  The  chief  of  a  juridical  person  shall  appoint   officials
authorised to submit  statistical  information  (primary   statistics) on
behalf of the juridical person.
     6. The reflection of primary statistics in the forms of the  federal
observation with a contravention of indications on their completion, with
arithmetical or logical errors shall be deemed to be  the  submission  of
unreliable data.
     Subjects of official statistical records in  whose  address  primary
statistics are submitted shall send within three days  a  written  notice
(by postal, facsimile and electronic communication)  to  the  respondents
which provided these records upon the  discovery  of  unreliable  primary
statistics. The respondents which admitted the facts of the  presentation
of unreliable primary statistics shall send to the subjects  of  official
statistical records corrected data within three days after the  discovery
of these facts by the respondents themselves or after  the  reception  of
the written notice from the subjects of official statistical records. The
corrected date shall be submitted together with the covering letter  that
contains grounds for the introduction of corrections and is signed by the
official. This procedure shall be used in compliance with item 5  of  the
present Regulations and supplied with necessary explanations.
     7. Primary statistics documented  according  to  the  forms   of the
federal statistical observation shall  be  presented  by   respondents on
paper carriers or in electronic forms in keeping with the legislation  of
the Russian Federation.
     the procedure for  the  submission  of  primary  statistics   in the
electronic  form  that  determines  standards  for  software,   technical
carriers, communication channels  and  protection  media,  and   also the
conditions for the use  of  the  electronic  digital  signature   and the
formats of presenting data in electronic form  shall  be   established by
subjects of the official statistical records.
     8. Administrative  data  shall  be  submitted  to  subjects  of  the
official statistical records for the formation by them  of  the  official
statistical information by the respondents - the federal organs of  state
power, other state federal bodies, the  organs  of  state  power   in the
constituent  of  the  Russian  Federation,  other  state    organs of the
constituents of the Russian Federation, the local self-government bodies,
state-owned  organisations  and  by   other   organisations   discharging
permission,  registration,  control  and  supervision,  and    also other
administrative functions  in  conformity  with  the  legislation   of the
Russian Federation.
     9. The administrative data shall be submitted by respondents to  the
subjects of the official statistical records in the  form  of  documented
information in keeping with the requirements of the  legislation  of  the
Russian Federation for the documentation and the content of  information
in connection of the corresponding administrative functions.
     the list of the administrative  data  or  the  documents  containing
these  data  necessary  for  the  formation   of   official   statistical
information, the method and the period of  their  presentation   shall be
indicated in the written inquiry of a subject of the official statistical
records or in the agreement on the information interaction of the subject
of the official records and the respondent that  receives  administrative
data.
     10. Primary statistical and administrative data may be presented  by
the respondents of the subjects  of  statistical  records   personally or
through a representative and sent in the form of an item of mail with the
enclosure or transferred through telecommunication channels.
     11. The date of the dispatch of the item of mail with its  enclosure
or the date of sending them through telecommunication  channels,  or  the
date of the actual transfer of the official statistical  records  to  the
subject of these records shall be deemed to be the date of the submission
of the primary statistical and administrative data.
     12. At the request of  respondents  the  subjects  of  the  official
statistical records shall put down on the copy of the  received  form  of
the federal statistical observation a note on its acceptance and the date
of its presentation or shall transfer to the respondent a receipt on  the
acceptance in electronic form upon the  reception  of  the  data  through
telecommunication channels.
     13. The  primary  statistical  and  administrative  data  containing
information comprising a state or an administrative  secret,  information
about taxpayers, about the personal data  of  natural  persons,  provided
that they are depersonalised without fail and contain other  information,
the access to which is limited by federal laws, shall be presented by the
respondents to the official  statistical  records  in  keeping   with the
legislation of the Russian Federation on these categories of  information
for a restrictive access.
     14. The non-presentation or the untimely presentation by respondents
to the subjects of official statistical records of primary statistical or
administrative data or the presentation of unreliable primary statistical
or  administrative  data  shall  involve  the       responsibility of the
respondents, stipulated by the legislation of the Russian Federation.
     15. The subjects  of  official  statistical  records  in   the order
established by the legislation of the Russian  Federation  shall  provide
the protection  for  the  primary  statistical  and   administrative data
submitted by respondents, which represent information of a limited access
and shall bear responsibility in keeping  with  the  legislation   of the
Russian Federation for their loss, divulgence,  dissimination,  and  also
the use not for the purpose of forming official statistical information.