Edict of the President No.431 coming into force on January 1, 2012, shall specify the terms for transferring the land in ownership of entrepreneurs and legal entities. Who and on which terms will be able to obtain land in ownership after the New Year? What shall be the cost of land? Shall the owner be able to sell the land acquired from the state? In what cases shall the state be entitled to withdraw the land from the owner?

The above mentioned issues and some other questions have been discussed within the regular “Letter of the Law” edition, the author program of Denis Aleinikov, Senior Partner of Law Group Argument, with Andrey Gayev, Deputy Chairman of the State Property Committee of the Republic of Belarus.

How to conclude an investment agreement with the Republic of Belarus? Who won’t be chosen as the investor? What residents of which countries invest to our economy more often? What is the assessment of the investors already working in the Republic of Belarus in regard to our investment climate? These and some other questions have been answered on air of “Letter of the Law”, the author program of Denis Aleinikov, Senior Partner of Law Group “Argument”, by the Deputy Head of the State Policy Department for attracting foreign investors at the Ministry of Economy, Tatiana Mantsevich.

Web portal of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs has commenced commercial operation. What shall be the way to register a company via Internet? Has our business been ready for such an innovation? 

These questions were answered on the air of “Letter of the Law”, the author program of Denis Aleinikov, Senior Partner of Law Group “Argument”, by Galina Podrezenok, Head of the Department of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus.

The Belarusian Association of Commercial Lawyers has obtained for discussion a new draft of the Law of the Republic of Belarus On Advocacy and Legal Practice in the Republic of Belarus. The point of the draft is to exclude the right of the licensed lawyers (lawyers working for business) to represent their clients’ interests in the economic courts of the country.

It has not been a secret any more that the laws are very confusing here and there. Therefore many are very happy about the principle put into Directive No.4 on the necessity to interpret the “ambiguity and uncertainties” of the acts of law by the state authorities and courts in favour of the objects of entrepreneurial activity and citizens.

The first practical experience of application of the directive’s provisions in the system of economic courts of the Republic of Belarus were discussed within the frames of the author program of Denis Aleinikov, Senior Partner of Law Group “Argument” by the Deputy Chairman of the Economic Court of the City of Minsk Sergey Kulakovsky.

The Law On Amendments and Additions to some Codes of the Republic of Belarus on Issues of Improvement of Economic Legal Procedure. The law establishes new rules of the game for the entrepreneurs who decided to clear up their relations in the Economic Court.

What is the procedure to observe the pretrial dispute resolution? Why has it become obligatory? Why has reconciliation been introduced in economic courts? What measures may be taken by the court in relation to the persons who fail to make any reconciliation attempts? Will it be easier to make the contractor recover a debt in accordance with the new rules?

Has custody always been justified? What is “justified custody”? Why shall the complaints on change of the measure of restraint be satisfied so rarely? Will the house arrest be used in our practice? How much does the bail “cost? These and some other questions were answered within the frames of “Letter of the Law”, author program of Denis Aleinikov, Senior Partner of Law Group “Argument” by the Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus, chairman of the judicial division for criminal cases of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus, Valery Kalinkovich.