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FEDERAL LAW OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

of July 13, 2020 No. 196-FZ

About modification of separate legal acts of the Russian Federation

Accepted by the State Duma on July 7, 2020

Approved by the Federation Council on July 8, 2020

Article 1

Bring in the Federal Law of December 8, 1995 No. 193-FZ "About agricultural cooperation" (The Russian Federation Code, 1995, No. 50, Art. 4870; 1997, No. 10, Art. 1120; 1999, No. 8, Art. 973; 2003, No. 24, Art. 2248; 2006, No. 45, Art. 4635; 2008, No. 49, Art. 5748; 2013, No. 30, Art. 4084; No. 51, Art. 6683; 2014, No. 45, Art. 6154; 2015, No. 17, Art. 2474; 2016, No. 27, Art. 4225; 2017, No. 31, Art. 4766; 2018, No. 18, Art. 2560; No. 49, Art. 7523; 2019, No. 31, Art. 4430) following changes:

1) in Article 1:

a) in paragraph eight of the word "is not member of cooperative and" to exclude;

b) in the paragraph the seventeenth "credit cooperative" shall be replaced with words words "agricultural credit consumer cooperative (further - credit cooperative)";

c) in the paragraph the twenty first the words "agricultural credit consumer cooperatives" shall be replaced with words "credit cooperatives";

2) in Article 4:

a) in Item 5 of the word "to insurance (insurance cooperatives)," to exclude;

b) state Item 8 in the following edition:

"8. Credit cooperatives are created for the purpose of the organization of financial mutual assistance of members of credit cooperatives and associated members of credit cooperatives by means of:

1) associations of shares of members of credit cooperatives and associated members of credit cooperatives, the funds raised in credit cooperatives in the form of the loans obtained from members of credit cooperatives and associated members of credit cooperatives, and other money according to the procedure, determined by this Federal Law, other Federal Laws and charters of credit cooperatives;

2) placements of 1 this Item of money specified in the subitem by provision of loans to members of credit cooperatives for satisfaction of their financial requirements.";

c) add with Item 8.1 of the following content:

"8.1. Full name of the credit cooperative performing activities, stipulated in Item the 8th this Article shall contain the word "credit".";

d) declare Item 10 invalid;

To exclude 3) in Item 1 of Article 7 of the word "and insurance";

4) in Item 3 of Article 33 the word", insurance" to exclude;

5) in Article 40.1:

a) in paragraph four of Item 7 of the word "financial and" to exclude;

b) third Item 9 to declare the paragraph invalid;

c) add with Items 16 and 17 of the following content:

"16. The credit cooperative has the right to raise funds of the Russian Federation, subjects of the Russian Federation, municipalities, credit institutions and other legal entities.

17. In board of credit cooperative, the supervisory board of credit cooperative, to positions of the chairman of credit cooperative, the chief executive persons having not removed or unspent conviction for crimes in the field of economy or crime against the government cannot be chosen or be designated.";

6) in Article 40.2:

a) in Item 1:

add with subitem 3.1 of the following content:

"3. 1) establishes forms, terms and procedure for creation and submission of the reporting and other documents and information provided by paragraph one of Item 3 of this Article and subitem 2.1 of Item 5 of article 40.3 of this Federal Law necessary for control and supervision of activities of credit cooperatives;";

state subitem 10 in the following edition:

"10) has the right the instruction to introduce restrictions of activities of credit cooperative, including to limit to credit cooperative fully or partially implementation of attraction of money, acceptance of new members and associated members, issue of loans and carrying out other transactions, and also to require replacement of person performing functions of sole executive body in case:

violation by credit cooperative of requirements of this Federal Law, numerous within one year, other Federal Laws, other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation, regulations of the Bank of Russia;

single non-execution or improper execution of the instruction of the Bank of Russia, and also single hindrance to conducting check of activities of credit cooperative.

The restrictions of activities of credit cooperative set according to this subitem are effective before the expiration of the corresponding restriction of term specified in the instruction about introduction or before cancellation of the instruction;";

in subitem 11:

third to state the paragraph in the following edition:

"single non-execution within one year by credit cooperative of the instruction about restriction of activities of the credit cooperative specified in paragraph one of the subitem 10 of this Item;";

add with the paragraph of the following content:

"numerous violation within one year by credit cooperative of the requirements provided by Articles 6, 7 (except for Item 3), 7.3 and 7.5 Federal Laws of August 7, 2001 No. 115-FZ "About counteraction of legalization (washing) of income gained in the criminal way and to terrorism financing", and (or) numerous violation within one year by credit cooperative of requirements of the regulations of the Bank of Russia published according to the specified Federal Law;";

add with the subitem 12 of the following content:

"12) has the right to direct the representatives to general meeting of members of credit cooperative.";

b) state Item 3 in the following edition:

"3. Credit cooperatives, total number of members and which associated members are exceeded by three thousand physical persons and (or) legal entities, credit cooperatives of the subsequent level, and also the credit cooperatives which are not members of the self-regulatory organization in the field of the financial market combining credit cooperatives shall constitute and submit to the Bank of Russia the reporting and other documents and information established by this Federal Law, other Federal Laws and regulations of the Bank of Russia.

The credit cooperatives which are members of the self-regulatory organization in the field of the financial market combining credit cooperatives shall constitute and submit the reporting and other documents and information established by this Federal Law, other Federal Laws and regulations of the Bank of Russia to the self-regulatory organization in the field of the financial market combining credit cooperatives which member is the credit cooperative.";

7) in Article 40.3:

a) in item 4:

state subitem 2 in the following edition:

"2) when implementing of supervising functions by the Bank of Russia concerning activities of the self-regulatory organization in the field of the financial market combining credit cooperatives which member is the credit cooperative, total number of members and which associated members are not exceeded by three thousand physical persons and (or) legal entities;";

add with the subitem 3 following of content:

"3) the size of assets of credit cooperative exceeds the value determined by the regulation of the Bank of Russia.";

b) add with Item 4.1 of the following content:

"4.1. The Bank of Russia in the presence of information on possible violation by credit cooperative, total number of members and which associated members are not exceeded by three thousand physical persons and (or) legal entities except for of credit cooperatives which size of assets exceeds the value determined by the regulation of the Bank of Russia, requirements of this Federal Law and regulations of the Bank of Russia adopted according to it sends this information to the self-regulatory organization in the field of the financial market combining credit cooperatives which member is such credit cooperative, for application of the measures provided by the subitem 1 of Item 5 of this Article.";

c) in Item 5:

subitem 1 after words of "legal entities" to add with the words "except for credit cooperatives which size of assets exceeds the value determined by the regulation of the Bank of Russia";

in subitem 2 to replace the word "Forms" with the word "Form";

add with subitem 2.1 of the following content:

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