[Reproduced from the English translation of Law 225-3 provided to International Legal Materials by Petroconsultants. The Russian text of Law 225-3 appears in Rossiiskaya Gazetta, January 11, 1996. The Introductory Note was prepared for International Legal Materials by Professor Thomas W. Wälde, Centre for Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee, Scotland, and I.L.M. Corresponding Editor for Natural Resources and Energy Law, and Martin Friedrich, Martin Friedrich & Associates and honorary associate of the Centre for Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee. The authors received information and advice from Andrei Konoplyanik, Elena Diatchkova and Rafael Akopov, and from the CIS-team of an unnamed major oil company.

[The Final Act of the European Energy Charter Conference and the Energy Charter Treaty, done at Lisbon, December 17,1994, appears at 34 I.L.M. 360 (1995), and the Russian-U.S. Treaty Concerning the Encouragement and Reciprocal Protection of Investment, done at Washington, June 17,1992, with an Introductory Note by Heribert Golsong, appears at 31 I.L.M. 794 (1992).]