The instructions concerned measures to stimulate foreign companies to launch production and research in Russia; setting customs tariffs rates for end-products and respective assembly parts and machinery; and simplification of customs processing procedures, currency and export control for exports of end-products and imports of assembly parts and machinery.
The measures taken by the Government to implement these instructions were reviewed and approved on January 12, 2011 at a meeting on activities of the Presidential Commission for Modernisation and Technological Development of Russia's Economy.