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FC to consider bill on small businesses at universities

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MOSCOW, July 27 (Itar-Tass) -- The Federation Council will meet for an
extraordinary meeting to consider a bill permitting to set up small
innovative enterprises in budget-financed scientific and higher
educational institutions. The upper house of parliament turned down the
bill on July 18. After that the conciliatory commission consisting of
deputies and senators has finalized the document. The State Duma approved
the new reading of the draft law with 432 votes.
Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov has already confirmed that
the Upper House is ready to approve this document in a legally finalized
form, after all contradictions with the effective legislation will have
been lifted in it. Speaking on the topical nature of the law he noted that
small innovative enterprises based on the premises of universities and
research institutes "will contribute to putting into practice the results
of scientific research."
Mironov believes that the enactment of this law "will provide
additional jobs for university graduates using current possibilities of
universities." "The law is a long-awaited document in big scientific and
student centres, where the crisis excerarbated the employment problem of
graduates," the speaker said.
However, Mironov explained the position of senators that the State
Duma had earlier submitted the law in the variant, which we just could not
approve. According to Mironov, the document "contradicted other important
laws - the Civil and Budges Codes." The major contradiction concluded in
the provision that the law "actually authorized to pass property in
possession of new enterprises without any permission of the owners of this
property." "It is easy to imagine how many conflicts could break out after
the enactment of the law in the offered reading, how many loopholes for
corruption emerged," he pointed out. The speaker of the Upper House is
confident that "in this case the Federation Council fulfilled its task
insisting on maintaining high quality standards of legislative acts."
President Dmitry Medvedev earlier emphasized that it is necessary to
enact this law by autumn in order to provide jobs for this year's
graduates. "I instructed the leadership of the Federal Assembly to hold an
extraordinary meeting and approve this law. I will sign this document into
law to enter it into force," the president said on July 21. He elaborated
that "it is not a fancy, but the care for university graduates during a
difficult crisis period."
The document, for the sake of which both houses of parliament met for
extraordinary sessions, will authorize scientific and educational
institutions to act as founders and participants of companies that put
into practice their intellectual activities. The law stipulates the rules
of putting inventions into practice, receiving licenses and a
profit-making procedure. The document permits budget-financed scientific
and higher educational institutions act as founders of new production
enterprises, thus putting into practice the results of their intellectual
activities and exercising the exclusive rights for the intellectual
property of the foresaid institutions.
The conciliatory commission has introduced several amendments seeking
to tighten the state control over the results of innovative activities. As
the unsettled issue of the control over the operation of small innovative
businesses made the senators turn down the initial reading of the law.
Upon initiative of the Federation Council the law holds that scientific
and higher educational institutions, which found economic entities, should
"notify federal executive authorities, which perform the functions of
working out the state policy and the legal regulation in the scientific
and technical sphere."
The foresaid institutions should forward this notification within
seven days after the registration as an economic entity in the common
state register.

.URGENT-Japan nationalist rams by car in barriers at Russia embassy.

TOKYO, July 27 (Itar-Tass) -- A Japanese ultra-right nationalist
rammed by car into the barriers at the gates of the Russian Embassy to
Japan, a source in the Japanese main police department told Itar-Tass on
Monday.
Eyewitnesses said during the detention the man was crying out
anti-Russian slogans.
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