In Belarus, the fee for certain administrative procedures is changing

June 12, Minsk /Corr. BELTA/. The fee for certain administrative procedures is changing in Belarus. This decision is stipulated by Decree No. 197, which amended and supplemented the list of administrative procedures carried out by state bodies and other organizations upon citizens' applications, dated April 12, 2012, BELTA was informed by the Ministry of Justice. In particular, the fee for issuing a duplicate civil status registration certificate will be 0.5 basic units, while currently it is one basic unit. The fee for affixing an apostille to an official document drawn up in the territory of Belarus will also decrease from one to 0.5 basic units. For providing information from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs, the fee will increase to one basic unit for providing information on each legal entity, individual entrepreneur (currently - 0.1 basic unit). In addition, the decree extends the validity period of certificates containing information from civil status records and notifications of the absence of a civil status record to one year (currently - six months). The changes come into force on August 9, 2012. -0-