| 13.10.2006 |
| Comments to Presidential Decree No 615 of October 13, 2006 |
| The President of the Republic of Belarus has signed into action Decree No 615 “On appraisal activities in the Republic of Belarus.” |
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| 13.10.2006 |
| Belarus and Oman to Sign Agreement on Avoiding Double Taxation |
| By his Decree, the Head of State Alexander Lukashenko has approved the signing of an Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Belarus and the Government of the Sultanate of Oman on avoiding double taxation and prevention of tax evasion with regard to income and capital taxes. |
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| 13.10.2006 |
| Head of State Visits the Republican Research and Practical Centre “Mother and Child” |
| President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko demanded that the reconstruction of the buildings assigned to the treatment of women and children at the Republican research and practical centre “Mother and Child” be completed by the end of 2007. The rest of reconstruction work must be finished by the middle of 2008, underlined the Head of State during his visit to the centre on October 13. |
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| 12.10.2006 |
| Ideal Order Must Be Established in the Tobacco Market |
| By January 1st, 2007, an ideal order must be established in the tobacco market. This task was put forward by President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko at the meeting on tobacco products market development that was held on October 12. The meeting focused on the sector’s development prospects and the current situation at the republican production unitary enterprise “Grodno Tobacco Factory ‘Neman’.”
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| 12.10.2006 |
| Alexander Lukashenko Congratulates King of Spain Juan Carlos I |
| President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has extended congratulations to the King of Spain Juan Carlos I on the national holiday - the Hispanic Day. |
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| 11.10.2006 |
| Alexander Lukashenko Congratulates President of the Republic of Bashkortostan |
| President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has extended congratulations to Murtaza Rakhimov on his reelection as President of the Republic of Bashkortostan of the Russian Federation to a new term. |
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| 10.10.2006 |
| Colonel Igor Azaryonok Promoted to the Rank of Major-General |
| Under the Decree by President of the Republic of Belarus No 610 of October 10, 2006, colonel AZARYONOK Igor Pavlovich has been promoted to the rank of major-general. |
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| 10.10.2006 |
| Alexander Lukashenko Meets with Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Alexander Popkov to Receive His Report |
| 164 agrarian population centres came into being in Belarus last year. More than 240 of such centres will be built this year. Thus, over a two-year period, there will be more than 400 comfortable and beautiful agrarian population centres in Belarus. They have all the needed social infrastructure so that the living standards of the rural residents could be in line with modern requirements. This information has been reported today by Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Alexander Popkov to the Head of State. |
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| 10.10.2006 |
| Alexander Lukashenko Receives Chairperson of the Central Commission of Belarus for Elections and National Referenda Lidiya Yermoshina |
| On October 10, the Head of State Alexander Lukashenko met with Chairperson of the Central Commission of Belarus for Elections and National Referenda Lidiya Yermoshina to receive her report. The meeting focused on specific issues relating to the preparation and conduct of the forthcoming elections to the local councils of deputies. |
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| 10.10.2006 |
| Comments to Presidential Decree No 607 of October 10, 2006 |
| The Head of State Alexander Lukashenko has signed into action Decree No 607 which fixes 14 January 2007 as the date for the elections to the local councils of deputies of the Republic of Belarus of the twenty-fifth convocation. |
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| 09.10.2006 |
| Creation and Activities Process of Trade Unions Considerably Simplified |
| With a view to implementing the approaches specified in the 2006 State of the Nation Address of the President of the Republic of Belarus to the Belarusian people and the National Assembly and aimed at the development of trade union movement in our country, the Head of State has approved the concept of the draft of a new Law of the Republic of Belarus “On Trade Unions.” On October 6, he signed into action Decree No 605 “On some issues of the state registration of public amalgamations and their unions (associations).” |
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On October 13, the President of the Republic of Belarus signed into action Decree No 615 “On appraisal activities in the Republic of Belarus.”
The document envisages the setting up of an integrated system to control appraisal activities in the Republic of Belarus on the basis of the strict regulation of the authority of all the legal-right holders, and, primarily, based on the delimitation of the competence of the Head of State, the Government, and the republican bodies of state administration in this area of activities.
In this connection, the Decree rules that the President of the Republic of Belarus shall determine the state policy in the field of appraisal activities, the Government shall implement this policy, shall exercise control over the work of the republican bodies of state administration in this field, shall specify the methods for appraisal of the objects of civil rights in carrying out certain types of transactions with them. |