Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev inked yesterday the Decree on Improving the RF Civil Code that commits to elaborate the concept of civil legislation by June 1, 2009.
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Civil Code to Assume Foreign Commitments
Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev inked yesterday the Decree on Improving the RF Civil Code that commits to elaborate the concept of civil legislation by June 1, 2009 and changes the strength of the President’s Council for Codification and Civil Laws Improvement.
In the current strength, the President’s Council for Codification and Civil Laws Improvement has 11 new members, including three spokesmen of the Supreme and High Arbitration Courts, Justice Minister Alexander Konovalov and President’s Representative to the Constitutional Court Mikhail Krotov.
The decree commits the President’s Council and Private Law Research Center to elaborate by June 1, 2009 a concept for civil legislation development and hand it over to the president. The concept will set up the base for drafting bills in 2009 and 2010 to amend the Civil Code with regard to the practice of its application, civil right development in Europe and the need to maintain uniformity of CIS Civil Codes. The decree also authorizes president to chair meetings of the Council.
“The first section of the Civil Code was passed in 1994, and the practice has shown that a number of provisions related to land title, organizational and legal regulations for entities call for revision,” said Alexander Makovsky, deputy head of the Private Law Research Center. “But it is necessary to ensure stability of the civil legislation, preserving provisions that have justified themselves,” Makovsky pointed out.
“A new president [means] a new decree, but the sole meaning of the Council, i.e. making the civil law correspond to our international commitments and internal needs, is still the same,” said Viktor Zhuikov, deputy director at the Government’s Institute of Legislation and Comparative Legal Science and member of the President’s Council for Codification and Civil Laws Improvement.
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All the Article in Russian as of July 22, 2008
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