Under the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1556 dated December 14, 2018 (hereinafter — Decree No. 1556), monitoring system of the medical drugs circulation should become effective from the January 2020 with the exception of medical drugs for healing high-cost ICD diseases, which have already been monitored from October1, 2019.

On December 2, 2019, Federal Law No. 405-FZ entered into force. This act significantly increases administrative liability for violations of the requirements on the localization of databases containing personal data of Russian nationals. The localization requirement was first introduced into the Russian legislation in 2014 and imposed an obligation to locate servers with the personal data of Russian nationals only in the territory of the Russian Federation.

Lidings’ Partner of the Criminal Defense practice Stepan Guzey will take part in a conference dedicated to the Criminal Law Defense of Business. The event organized by Pravo.ru will take place in Moscow on 12th of December 2019 at Ararat Park Hyatt.

Ritz Carlton Moscow, December 5th 2019. The results of the annual Pravo.ru-300 law firms’ ranking were announced at an awarding ceremony at the Ritz Carlton Moscow.

On November 28th 2019 Moscow will host the Award-Winning Ceremony of the first Russian award in the intellectual property sphere — the IP Russia Awards. The event is to take place at the Mansion on Volkhonka, one of the city’s most outstanding historical locations.

Lidings’ partner of the Dispute Resolution practice Alexander Popleyuk will take part in a conference Preventing Corporate Fraud and Withdrawal of Assets. The event organized by Pravo.ru will take place in Moscow on 21st of November 2019 at Marriott Royal Aurora Hotel.

Partner of the Lidings’ Intellectual Property practice Boris Malakhov will take part in a conference entitleв Intellectual Property — 2019 organized by Pravo.ru. The conference will take place on 19th November 2019 in Marriott Royal Aurora.

Partner of the Lidings’ Intellectual Property practice Boris Malakhov will take part in the International Conference entitled Intellectual Property Right: Challenges of 21st Century. The conference will take place on 14-16 November 2019 at the campus the National Research Tomsk State University.

In September the draft law was amended with a new provision on the creation of Register of pharmacologically active substances. Under this provision, Rospatent will keep the publicly available Register of pharmacologically active substances protected by patent.

Lidings’ Managing Partner Andrey Zelenin will speak at the Russian Law Week 2019 traditionally scheduled to take place in St. Petersburg and Moscow on November 11-14.