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On defining charges for issuing documents specified in items 3 and 4 article 29 of Trade Navigation Code

The order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 08.12.2010 № 999 approved that the procedure of defining charges for issuing the following documents:
  - Tonnage certificates;
  - Passenger ship certificates;
  - Load-line certificates;
  - Sewage pollution prevention certificates;
  - Waste pollution prevention certificates;
  - Ship documents specified in international conventions of the Russian Federation
is to be defined by Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation.

Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation was instructed to approve in 3-month term the above mentioned procedure based on the rule that the charges should not exceed the economically substantiated expenses on issuing the documents.

The charges for issuing documents will be applicable starting from the 1st of June, 2011.