The Ministry of Justice of Tatarstan informs about the acts that will come into force on September 1, 2025
Federal law № 288-FZ of August 8, 2024 «On direct multimodal transportation and amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation», stipulates that the conclusion of a transportation contract will be confirmed by a single transport document. The Ministry of Transport has prepared its form and execution procedure. You can see the details of the order on the slide (order of the Ministry of Transport of Russia dated June 11, 2025, № 187 «On approval of the form of a single transport document on paper, the procedure for its execution on paper, or as an electronic single transport document»). It also comes into force on September 1 of this year.
Federal law № 4-FZ of February 3, 2025 «On the safety of people on water bodies» which introduces the concepts of «safety of people on water bodies», «system for ensuring safety of people on water bodies» and «mandatory safety requirements for people on water bodies».
The powers of public authorities, including local governments, that exercise their authority to ensure public safety on water bodies are defined in accordance with the aforementioned Federal law and the federal law establishing the general principles of local self-government.
Federal law № 63-FZ of April 7, 2025 «On amending to article 268 of the Labor codex of the Russian Federation» establishes the possibility of engaging individuals aged 14 to 18 to work on weekends and non-working holidays during the summer holidays, upon referral from employment agencies or as part of student groups included in the register of youth and children's associations receiving state support.
This requires the written consent of the employee, one of their parents (guardian), or the guardianship and trusteeship authority.
Federal law № 125-FZ of June 7, 2025 «On amendments to the Housing codex of the Russian Federation and articles 19 and 24 of the Federal law «On state registration of real estate», requires municipalities to provide the owner of a property in an apartment building with an extract from the Unified state register of immovables confirming the completion of state cadastral registration and/or state registration of rights when converting residential premises into non-residential premises or non-residential premises into residential premises, or when coordinating the redevelopment and/or reconstruction of premises in an apartment building.
Federal law № 144-FZ of June 7, 2025 «On amendments to the Labor codex of the Russian Federation» employers have been given the right to reduce bonuses for employees with disciplinary sanctions.
In the local regulatory act establishing the bonus system, the employer, taking into account the opinion of the elected body of the primary trade union organization, has the right to stipulate that a reduction in the employee's bonus amount due to disciplinary action will only apply to those bonuses included in the employee's salary that accrue for the period in which the relevant disciplinary action was taken.
The amount of such a bonus reduction may not result in a reduction of the monthly salary by more than 20%.
Federal law № 353-FZ of July 31, 2025 «On amendments to the Federal law «On the сonduct of gardening and vegetable gardening by citizens for their own needs and on amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation» and certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation» regulates certain issues related to gardening and vegetable gardening for their own needs. Specifically, it was established that the owner of a garden plot or vegetable plot is not entitled to alienate it separately from the residential building, garden house, outbuildings, and/or garage located on it.
The amendments also prohibit the division of a residential building, garden house, outbuilding or garage.
The concept of «outbuildings» is defined: these include, but are not limited to, sheds, bathhouses, greenhouses, sheds, cellars, summer kitchens, and wells. Cellars and other structures that are part of residential and garden buildings are not considered outbuildings. This provision is being introduced specifically to prevent the use of summer cottages for any commercial activity, with the exception of gardening.
By Decree № 826 of the Government of the Russian Federation dated May 31, 2025 «On establishing the indicators of non-use of land plots from the lands of settlements, garden plots, and vegetable garden plots» effective September 1, 2025, indicators of non-use of land plots from the lands of settlements, garden plots, and vegetable garden plots are established.
This refers to land plots allocated for development and use from the lands of settlements in accordance with article 851 of the Land codex of the Russian Federation.
The list of such signs includes the littering of more than 50 percent of the land area with objects not related to its use; the absence of an individual residential building on the land plot designated for individual housing construction for 7 or more years; the presence on the land plot of buildings and structures that are not unauthorized constructions, the roofs and walls of which are damaged, or windows or glass is missing.