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Russia is on the way
to Electronic Documents
Interchange
Russia has long been the only European country in which the law
did not allow the creation of legally significant invoices in electronic
form.
May 23, 2012 - the date of formal entry into force of the last document
necessary for the exchange of legally significant electronic
invoices (Order of the Federal Tax Service of Russia from March
5, 2012 № MMV-7-6/138), which adopts the format of electronic
invoices, book of purchases and sales as well as the log book of
issued and received invoices.
The electronic exchange of invoices between parties via telecommunication
channels should be carried out through the Operators
of electronic documents interchange in compliance with all provisions
of the Order, i.e. contractors can not exchange electronic
invoices by regular e-mail.
Operators of electronic documents interchange - these are organizations
that provide open and confidential information via telecommunication
channels.
Currently, on the territory of the Russian Federation are issued
about 13 billion primary paper accounting documents per year.
Given that the estimated cost of processing each paper document
is 40 rubles ($ 1.25), the total amount spent on paper documents
is 520 billion rubles ($ 16.25 billion).
The cost of the electronic document will be initially by a few
times lower than the cost of the paper document, and most likely
will further decrease with time.
Nowadays sending and receiving electronic invoices costs 4-10
rubles ($ 0.22) per document.
Experts estimate that by 2015 the number of electronic primary
documents will be 25-30% of the total number of primary accounting
documents (that will lead to about 130 billion RUB/$
4.06 billion of savings).
The next step in the development of electronic documents interchange
in Russia, is the transfer to electronic format of the trade
bill and the act for accomplished work and services (Federal Tax
Service approved the format of the two most commonly used in
the accounting work documents in the Order № MMV 6-7/172@
on 23/03/2012.)
The system of traceability
in Russia
The food traceability system is being developed
in Russia by Expert Council “Electronic Documents
- Sustainable Economy”, which was
founded on a base of ECR Russia.
This project is supported by Russian Ministry of
Economy Development. It will guarantee the
involvement of other state institutions, responsible
for quality and safety control, and will ensure
making the amendments to the relevant legislatives
acts.
The main idea of the project is to move from control
of paper compliance documents, which are
usually delivered with goods, to control of data,
collected in traceability systems of state institutions
and companies.
It is assumed that a bar-code and a manufacturing
date are enough to identify a product and trace it
throughout the supply chain - from row materials
to the grocery store and even consumers’ fridge.
The working group of business and government
representatives has been created. By the end of
2012 it will work out the main principles of
goods and manufacturers identification, collecting,
recording and publishing data. Will determine
the rules of access of different parties to this
data and making this information relevant in law.
The first pilot project will include meat, milk and
alcohol traceability.
The new system will enable retailers and suppliers
to recall goods very quickly, government will
reduce costs for quality and safety control, and
consumers will be more informed of the products
they persuade.
ECR Russia is non-commercial partnership, within the scope of which the leading
food retailers and FMCG manufacturers work together to grow the common business
by generating Demand and enhancing the Supply chain efficiency. More than 50
leading companies work actively together in breaking down the barriers to business
efficiency.
ECR mission is working together to fulfill consumer wishes better, faster and at less
cost
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