Amendments were made to the legislation of the state registration of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs

According to the Federal Law of 30.10.2017 №312-FL «On amendments to the Federal Law «On the state registration of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs…» electronic documents, signed with encrypted and certified digital signature (ECDS), should be sent on e-mail of legal entities (LE) or individual entrepreneurs (IE). E-mails should be previously listed to the state register or noted by submission of documents to the registration authorities.

At the request of the applicants registration authorities can give applicants or their representatives paper documents оf the state registration that verify the content of electronic documents.

While sending documents to the registration authorities by means of multifunctional centers or notary officers (at the applicants` request), documents can be additionally sent in the electronic form, signed with ECDS, to the corresponding multifunctional centers or notary officers.

Also, at the request of the applicants, multifunctional centers or notary officers can issue paper documents, verifying the content of the electronic documents received from the registration authorities.

According to the amendments, any person has a right to request information in relation to legal entities or individual entrepreneurs about facts of documents provision to the registration authorities by means of official web-sites on the Internet. Registration authorities should fulfill such request during 1 work day.

It is possible to provide documents for the state registration for the second time without paying an additional state tax after reasons for the state registration refusal are eliminated.

Provision of documents with unreliable information is included in the list of reasons for the state registration refusal.

Rules of sending of refusal decisions are the same as for the state registration documents.

Our publications from June 16, 2017 and August 5, 2016 were dedicated to the topic of check on reliability of data from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities

Besides, our publications in 2015 – 2017 were dedicated to the changes in the legislation of the state registration of legal entities: «Changes in state registration procedure of legal entities», «New data in the Unified Federal Register of legally significant data about the facts of the activities of legal entities» , «Amendments to legislation concerning enforcement of creditors’ rights and legal interests in bankruptcy cases of legal entities».