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/. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- December 6, 2004 On November 25, 2004 the Law No. 344-Z ratifying the UN Convention against Corruption was adopted. The Republic of Belarus singed the Convention on April 28, 2004 with the following statement: The Republic of Belarus in accordance with point 6 article 44 of the Convention will apply the Convention as a legal ground for cooperation in the matters of extradition with other member states of the Convention. On November 28, 2004 the Law of the Republic of Belarus No. 345-Z On State Statistics was adopted. The Law No. 345-Z abolishes the previous Law On State Statistics adopted on February 17, 1997. The Law sets forth the principles, objectives and procedures for the state statistics. Decision of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus of November 23, 2004 No. 176 On Procedure of Accessing and Connecting the Banks-Non-Residents to the BISS system of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus approves the Instructions on accessing and connecting to BISS. The BISS is the system of interbank settlements of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus. The system has direct non-resident users who connect to the system only in cases it is provided by the agreement between the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus and the central bank of the country of origin of the bank-non-resident. Access to the system as an indirect user is given to the bank-non-resident only if it meets the requirements of the Instructions. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- foreign.affairs@ncpi.gov.by (C) National Center of Legal Information of the Republic of Belarus, 2002-2003 -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: http://felist.com/member/unsub?grp=regional.bel.belaruslegal&email= http://felist.com/ mailto:ask@felist.com