The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brief description of the most interesting legal acts which have been included into the National Register of Legal Acts of the Republic of Belarus within the last week. The section Belarus Legal News along with other sections of the NCLI's site has been moved to the National Legal Internet Portal of the Republic of Belarus. Now you can find our legal news and other legal information at http://law.by/. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 12, 2004 Edict of the President of the Republic of Belarus of April 8, 2004 No. 175 On Matters of State Registration and Liquidation (Termination of Activity) of Legal Persons and Individual Entrepreneurs empowers the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus to provide organizational and methodological maintenance and coordination of state registration and liquidation of commercial and non-commercial organizations and individual entrepreneurs (except for banks, non-bank credit and financial organizations, insurance organizations) as well as control of their activity. Decision of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus of March 31, 2004 No. 355 brings in alterations to the Decision of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus of October 20, 2003 No 1363. Alterations brought into Regulations on Licensing of Advocacy and Regulations on Licensing of Private Notary Activity establish that persons in relation to which the decision on annulment of the license is taken do not have the right to receive the license within a year from the day of passing such a decision (instead of 5 years as it was established before). Decision of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus of March 23, 2004 No. 35 brings in alterations and amendments to the Rules of Application of Measures to Effect Banks and Non-bank Credit and Financial Organizations by the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus approved by the Decision of the National Bank of January 25, 2001 No. 3. In particular, the Rules are amended with the provision that the National Bank can take measures mentioned in the Rules also in case of minor violations and also with the provisions clarifying what is to be considered minor violations. Decision of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Belarus of March 23, 2004 No. 38 approves the Rules of Audit Activity Assessment of Risk and Internal Control in Terms of Computer Data Processing. The purpose of the Rules is to determine risks of audit organizations or auditor arising at holding an audit of accounting (financial record) stipulated by the influence of the system of computer data processing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (c) National Center of Legal Information of the Republic of Belarus 2002 WWW: http://ncpi.gov.by/eng/indexeng.htm E-Mail: mailto:foreign.affairs@ncpi.gov.by -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: http://felist.com/member/unsub?grp=regional.bel.belaruslegal&email= http://felist.com/ mailto:ask@felist.com