A new procedure on medical devices import for their further registration in Russia¹ will enter into force from 1 January 2021.

Lidings’ managing partner Andrey Zelenin and senior associate of the dispute resolution practice of the Firm Elizaveta Fursova will speak at a conference on employment issues organized by Pravo.ru. The event entitled “Employment Law and Employment Disputes – 2020” will take place in Moscow on October 20th at Marriott Royal Aurora Hotel.

Eurasian Virtual Pharmaceutical Summit will take place on October 14-21, 2020. Lidings’ managing partner Andrey Zelenin and partner of the Firm’s Intellectual Property practice Boris Malakhov will speak at the event.

Partner of the Lidings’ Intellectual Property practice Boris Malakhov will take part in the online IP conference DISTANT & DIGITAL – major event on intellectual property and LegalTech in Russia and CIS. The conference will take place on 8-9 September 2020.

18 September 2020 the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (the FAS) published the full decisions on cases No. 1-14-163/00-08-18 and 1-14-164\00-08-18. According to the decisions, Daimler AG and KYB Corporation breached art. 14.8 of the Russian Antitrust law by committing acts of unfair competition.

4 September 2020 the Russian Ministry of Justice registered the Order No. 5527 of Roszdravnadzor dd. 29 June 2020, approving criteria for evaluating the information, publication of which may result in a website inclusion in the register of prohibited websites and its blocking. The Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare (Roszdravnadzor) renders such a decision.

The new rules on the medicines interchangeability No. 1360 (hereinafter – the Rules) enacted by the Russian Government have entered into force on 9 September 2020.

Senior associate of the dispute resolution practice at Lidings Elizaveta Fursova will speak at a conference on Employment Law organized by Russian Corporate Counsel Association (RCCA). The event devoted to employment regulation during and after the pandemic will take place in Moscow on September 24th, 2020.