The Government of the Russian Federation approved of the Rules for filing of a Wood dealing declaration

According to the Press service of the Federal Forestry Agency, on January 6, 2015 the Government of the Russian Federation adopted a resolution No. 11 “On approval of the Rules for filing of a Wood dealing declaration”. The resolution was elaborated in compliance with amendments made to the Forest Code of the Russian Federation by the Law No. 415 as of December 28, 2013. 

The resolution sets the procedure for filing of a Wood dealing declaration and approves of its form.

According to the implemented rules, legal entities and sole entrepreneurs that closed a transaction on wood, including transactions related to import to the Russian Federation and export from the Russian Federation, shall submit to the operator of the Unified State Automated Information System for Wood Accounting and Transactions Therewith (EGAIS) a Wood dealing declaration in the form of an e-document signed with an e-signature using public information and telecommunication networks, such as an information and telecommunication network “Internet”, including the unified portal of state and municipal services. 

The Wood dealing declaration shall be submitted within 5 working days as of the date of entering into a contract, its amending or termination of a contract on alienation of wood, including for the purposes of its export from the Russian Federation, but no later than one day before wood transportation. 

The Wood dealing declaration shall be submitted for each wood contract by both parties. 

Moreover, parties to the contract will also have to enter the relevant information on a monthly basis into the Unified State Automated Information System for Wood Accounting and Transactions Therewith (EGAIS) on actual volumes of timber assortments, the title whereto has been transferred from one party to the other.

The resolution will take effect on July 1, 2015.