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The Government continues to support manufacturers of industrial products. It was decided to expand the list of equipment whose supplies are advanced in the amount of at least 80% of the contract price in public procurement. The decree was signed by the Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.

On July 1, 2023, a new version of paragraph 6 of part 1 of Article 93 of Federal Law No. 44 came into force, according to which the exclusive powers to perform certain works and provide certain services can no longer be established by legislative acts of a subject of the Russian Federation.

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation has established a new list of offshore zones - states and territories that provide preferential tax treatment and (or) do not provide for disclosure and provision of information during financial transactions. At the same time, the specified list has more than doubled - from 40 to 91 positions. In particular, the list includes such states and territories as Australia, Austria, Hungary, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Canada, Great Britain, USA, Ukraine, Germany, Finland, France, Montenegro, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Estonia, Japan.

Experts of the antimonopoly department in their letter, in particular, noted that when considering the possibility of replacing an administrative fine with a warning, other offenses committed earlier by a person, including those that are not homogeneous with respect to the one under consideration, including those committed outside the time limits established by article 4.6 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, should be taken into account. At the same time, offenses committed solely in connection with non-performance or improper performance of official duties by a person are taken into account (Article 2.4 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation).

Representatives of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation in their letter noted that in the presence of an updated version (version) of the position of the catalog of goods, works, services, regardless of the date of the beginning of its mandatory application, the previous version is not subject to application, since changes to the catalog positions may be due, among other things, to the introduction of changes or recognition as invalid of regulatory legal acts, documents on standardization, on the basis of which the catalog position was formed. At the same time, the previous editions of the catalog items of goods, works, services are stored in a single information system in the field of procurement for review.

In the letter prepared by the antimonopoly agency specialists, in particular, it is noted that the formulas used in the evaluation of applications according to the criterion of "characteristics of the object of purchase", established by paragraph 20 of the regulation on the evaluation of applications for participation in the procurement of goods, works, services for state and municipal needs (hereinafter - Regulation), provide for the evaluation of applications taking into account which value is the best for the customer (the largest, for example, the size of the experience, or the smallest, for example, fuel consumption), as well as taking into account the presence or absence of the maximum and maximum values of the indicator.

23.06.2023 employees of the State Procurement Committee of the Republic of Tatarstan took part in the collection of gifts for the national holiday Sabantuy-2023.

Representatives of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation in their letter recalled that when making purchases from a single counterparty in accordance with paragraph 4 of part 1 of Article 93 of Federal Law No. 44, justification of the contract price according to the rules of Article 22 of Federal Law No. 44 is not required.

From July 1, 2023, the provisions of the Rules for maintaining the register of contracts concluded by customers, approved by the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of 27.01.2022 N 60, including the obligation of the customer to send for inclusion in the register of contracts information about the place of delivery of the purchased goods, the place of performance of work or provision of services, the address of the page of the official website on which a court decision on termination of the contract has been posted.

The Ministry of Finance plans to continue improving the mechanisms of control over public procurement in order to completely eliminate possible abuses by officials, said Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation Alexey Lavrov. Optimization will complement the strict requirements for transparency of public procurement already established in Russia.