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Tobacco Organization


Tobacco organization - legal entities regardless of their organizational and legal form, engaged in the production, movement of tobacco products or nicotine-containing products across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union (hereinafter - the Union) or across the State Border of the Russian Federation with member states of the Union, or organizations recognized in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation as affiliated parties of these legal entities, subsidiaries and dependent organizations, associations of such persons, as well as organizations created by such persons. For the purposes of this Federal law, individual entrepreneurs engaged in the production, movement of tobacco products or nicotine-containing products across the customs border of the Union or across the State Border of the Russian Federation with member states of the Union are equated to tobacco organizations1.

  1. Federal Law No. 15-FZ of February 23, 2013 "On the Protection of Citizens' Health from the Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke and the Consequences of Tobacco Consumption". 2013, as amended on July 31, 2020, Article 2, paragraph 11. ↩

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