Rent: Questions Without Answers

February 22, 2025 (following the official publication of the Law of the Republic of Belarus dated February 17, 2025, No. 62-Z), changes came into effect regarding the regulation of payments (monetary obligations) under lease agreements.

The new lease requirements affected a very wide range of highly demanded and widespread relations, gave rise to a lot of applied questions, the answers to which are based on interpretation. We, as legal consultants, expressed our point of view on some of them and are open to discussion.

Personal Data: to start?

At the current time, many Belarusian legal entities and representative offices of foreign companies in Belarus are conceptually reconsidering their approaches to the protection of personal data of employees, counterparties and other persons.

What is the reason for this and where to start? What clusters of issues should be worked out before starting to develop (to revise, to update) a set of documents regulating the processing of personal data in the company?

Read more about this in our publication.

Personal Data: to start?

At the current time, many Belarusian legal entities and representative offices of foreign companies in Belarus are conceptually reconsidering their approaches to the protection of personal data of employees, counterparties and other persons.

What is the reason for this and where to start? What clusters of issues should be worked out before starting to develop (to revise, to update) a set of documents regulating the processing of personal data in the company?

Read more about this in our publication.

Registration of currency contracts

On October 01, 2023 the new edition of the Instruction on registration of currency contracts by residents will come into force

Read more about it in our publication.

Attention: Entry into force of this normative document requires examination of previously concluded currency agreements as well.

Borovtsov & Salei has many years of experience in this area and ready to provide the necessary assistance and advice.

Working with a Russian counterparty

On August 28, Borovtsov & Salei partner Nadezhda Znak participated as a speaker in the online seminar "Working with Russian counterparties: contracting, debt collection and court practice".

How to reduce risks when working with Russian counterparties? Recommendations from the speaker.

Based on Borovtsov & Salei's many years of experience and practice, Nadezhda Znak's attention is focused on the problematic issues of checking Russian counterparties and the specifics of concluding contracts with their participation, as well as practical difficulties arising in the course of execution.