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On Amendments To The Federal Law "on Freedom Of Conscience And Religious Associations"

Original Language Title: О внесении изменений в Федеральный закон "О свободе совести и о религиозных объединениях"

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Russian Federation On Amendments to Federal Law "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations" Adopted by the State Duma on July 3, 2015 Approved by the Federation Council on 8 July 2015 Article 1 Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations of the Russian Federation, 1997, No. 4465; 2000, N 14, st. 1430; 2002, N 12, st. 1093; N 30, sect. 3029; 2003, N 50, sect. 4855; 2004, N 27, sect. 2711; 2006, N 29, est. 3122; 2008, N 30, est. 3616; 2011, N 27, sect. 3880; 2013, N 27, sect. 3472, 3477; 2015, N 1, est. 58; N 14, est. (2020) The following changes: 1) the first paragraph of Article 3, paragraph 1, should read: " 1. The Russian Federation guarantees freedom of conscience and freedom of religion, including the right to profess, individually or jointly with others, any religion, or to profess no religion, perform other religious rites and ceremonies, To teach religion and religious instruction, to freely choose and change, to have and disseminate religious and other beliefs and to act in accordance with them, including the establishment of religious associations. "; 2) article 5 to supplement paragraph 5 with the following: " 5. Religious associations have the right to teach religion and the religious instruction of their followers in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Russian Federation in forms determined by the internal establishment of religious associations. Education of religion and religious instruction is not an educational activity. "; 3) in article 7: (a) paragraph 1 is supplemented with a new second sentence reading:" The religious group includes citizens of the Russian Federation The Federation, as well as may include other persons permanently and legally residing in the territory of the Russian Federation. "; b), paragraph 2 should read as follows: " 2. The head (representative) of a religious group or the governing body (centre) of a centralised religious organization, in the event that a religious group is part of its structure, shall give written notice of the beginning of the activity of a religious group; The competent authority to decide on the State registration of a religious organization, at the place where the activity of a religious group is carried out. The notification of the beginning of the activity of a religious group provides information on the grounds of religion, places of worship, other religious ceremonies and ceremonies, the head (representative), citizens of the a religious group, indicating their names, names, patronymics, and address of their place of residence. Notification of the activity of a religious group shall be made in the form approved by the authority competent to decide on the State registration of a religious organization. The Religious Group shall notify the continuation of its activity at least once every three years from the date of the last notification to the authority authorized to decide on the State registration of a religious organization. "; 4) in paragraph 9 of Article 8: (a) the first paragraph should read: " 9. The religious organization is obliged to inform the body empowered to decide on the State registration of a religious organization, to modify the information referred to in article 5, paragraph 1 of the Federal Act of 8 August 2001 N 129-FZ " State registration of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs " (hereinafter referred to as the Federal Act on State Registration of Legal Persons and Individual Entrepreneurs), except for information on licences received, within three days from the date of such changes. Decision on the sending of relevant documents to the federal executive body, the federal executive body, in accordance with article 2 of the federal law on State registration of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs (hereinafter referred to as "the State Registration of Legal Persons and Individual Entrepreneurs"). The authority of the registering body shall be adopted in the same manner and in the same time frame as the decision on the State registration of a religious organization. "; b) in the second paragraph of the" State Registration Authority Decision ". of a religious organization "shall be replaced by the words" by the authority empowered to take a decision On State registration of a religious organization "; in), paragraph 3 shall be declared void; 5) in article 9: (a) paragraph 1 should read: " 1. The founders of a local religious organization may be at least ten citizens of the Russian Federation who have attained the age of eighteen years and permanently reside in the same locality, or in one urban or rural settlement. "; b) Fourth paragraph 3, in addition to the words "(hereinafter referred to as the Federal Law on Countering Extremist Activity)"; in), in paragraph 4 of the word "dated 25 July 2002 N 114-FZ", delete; 6) in article 11: (a) in the second paragraph of paragraph 1 of the The State registration of public associations (hereinafter referred to as the federal State Registration Authority), "replace the words" by the Federal State Registration Service "with the words" the Government of the Russian Federation "by the words" the Government of the Russian Federation ". "Federal State Registration Authority in agreement with the registrant authority"; b) in paragraph 5: , paragraph 6, amend to read: " Document confirming occurrence of local language. religious organization in the structure of a centralized religious organizations of the same denomination issued by the governing body (centre) of a centralized religious organization, in the event that a local religious organization is part of a centralized religious organization; "; paragraph tenth paragraph 4, article 14, paragraph 4, subparagraph (a), in paragraph 2 of the words "the authority which decided to register the religious organization in its establishment", replace the words " by the competent authority of the organization. decide on the State registration of a religious organization in the in accordance with article 11, paragraphs 2-4 of this Federal Law "; b), in the fifth paragraph, the words" the Government of the Russian Federation "shall be replaced by the words" Federal State Registration Authority with the approval of the Commissioner. 8) in article 27 (3): (a) the third and fourth paragraphs of the void; b) add the following paragraph: " Local religious organizations not included in the the structure of a centralized religious organization of the same denomination, 10 years from the date of their State registration at the time of establishment, they do not enjoy the rights set forth in paragraph 3 (with the exception of the right to establish educational organizations that implement supplementary general education programmes) article 5, paragraph 5, article 16, paragraph 3, article 18, paragraph 2 (in relation to the media), article 20, paragraph 2, of this Federal Act, and shall not be entitled to act as founders of a centralized religious organization. ". Article 2 Admit invalid: 1) Article 2, paragraph 29, of Federal Law of 21 March 2002 N 31-FZ " On ghost-casting In accordance with the Federal Law on State Registration of Legal Persons (Assembly of Laws of the Russian Federation, 2002, No. 1093); 2) Article 22, paragraph 1, of the Federal Law of 1 July 2011 N 169-FZ " On amendments to individual pieces of legislation OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION (...) (...) President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin Moscow, Kremlin 13 July 2015 N 261 FZ