The Government of the Russian Federation has been instructed to coordinate, with the involvement of Russian diplomatic and trade missions abroad and within the framework of bilateral intergovernmental commissions, efforts to secure the recognition in friendly foreign countries of medical product registration certificates issued under Russian law, as well as those registered in accordance with Eurasian Economic Union regulations, to facilitate their entry into foreign markets.
The Government has also been instructed to submit proposals on the following:
- reducing excise tax on liquid steel to support electrometallurgical plants, as well as suspending the payment of this tax by metallurgical companies when they launch new production facilities;
- introducing additional restrictions on the use within the Russian Federation of software – including communication services – developed in unfriendly foreign countries;
- applying reduced corporate income tax rates and lower insurance premium rates to organisations operating in the machine tool, automation, and robotics sectors, similar to the preferential tax regime currently available to companies in the electronics industry;
- providing additional support to Russian manufacturers of materials and components for the mechanical engineering sector, with the aim of enhancing their competitiveness, particularly in terms of pricing, relative to comparable foreign products;
- providing additional support for the implementation of domestic automation and robotics systems in the design and construction of industrial and logistics infrastructure facilities.
In addition, the Government has been instructed to introduce a series of legislative amendments, providing, in particular, for:
- enhancing the effectiveness of mechanisms for monitoring compliance with mandatory technical regulations;
- termination or cancellation in the Russian Federation of any product conformity assessment documents issued by EAEU member states that violate mandatory requirements or established procedures for conformity confirmation;
- support for light industry enterprises aimed at enhancing the competitiveness of domestic products, with emphasis on increasing the sector’s self-sufficiency in key raw materials and equipment, as well as improvement of mechanisms for monitoring the circulation of light industry products (including imported goods) on the Russian market, including through the use of digital platforms, to reduce the share of illegal trade in such products;
- introduction of additional support measures for exporters of domestically developed software;
- support for domestic manufacturers of ski infrastructure equipment, such as cable cars, funiculars, and other types of off-street transport, with the goal of achieving technological sovereignty in this sector and boosting demand for Russian-made products;
- carrying out of an anti-dumping investigation into the import of combined packaging materials;
- increase of funding for preferential leasing programmes in the shipbuilding sector and marine equipment manufacturing, along with exploring the possibility of establishing long-term guaranteed orders;
- support for the implementation of pilot projects aimed at establishing highly automated, multifunctional logistics centres in the Nizhny Novgorod and Rostov regions, as well as the rollout of similar initiatives in other regions of the Russian Federation, employing government support measures;
In addition, the proposed legislative amendments should include provisions for regulating procurement funded by state and municipal budgets, as well as by certain categories of legal entities, specifically in relation to goods, works, or services originating from foreign countries or performed by foreign entities, as well as increasing the share of procurement of goods produced in Russia and services or works performed by Russian entities.
The Government, in cooperation with the state development corporation VEB.RF, has been instructed to submit proposals on refining the support mechanism for investment projects under the Project Financing Factory programme, including the introduction of a requirement to prioritise the procurement of domestically produced equipment in the implementation of such projects.