On April 1 of this year, a new version of the Procedure for Assigning, Applying and Changing Customer Identification Codes for the purpose of Maintaining a Register of Contracts Concluded by Customers Based on the Results of Procurement (hereinafter referred to as the Procedure), approved by Order No. 167n of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation dated December 24, 2014, will enter into force.
In accordance with the changes, the rules established by the Procedure for the formation of the customer's account card will be adjusted to take into account the situation in which an accredited branch or representative office of a foreign legal entity acts as the customer. In this case, the information about these persons reflected in the registration cards will be formed and changed, including on the basis of information from the state register of accredited branches and representative offices of foreign legal entities (Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 344n of December 31, 2020).