FEDERAL LAW OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

of July 31, 2025 No. 289-FZ

About single questions of regulation of platform economy in the Russian Federation

Accepted by the State Duma on July 22, 2025

Approved by the Federation Council on July 25, 2025

Chapter 1. General provisions

Article 1. Subject of regulation, purpose and scope of this Federal Law

1. This Federal Law determines the legal basis of platform economy in the Russian Federation and governs the relations arising between operators of intermediary digital platforms, their partners, users and other persons in connection with sales of goods, performance of works, rendering services.

2. The purposes of this Federal Law are:

1) creation of the safe digital circle on digital platforms promoting increase in level of goods availability, works, services, and also development of entrepreneurship and the competition;

2) creation of legal, economic and organizational conditions of development and functioning of digital platforms;

3) ensuring unity of economic space in the Russian Federation by establishment of requirements to the organization and implementation of activities of digital platforms;

4) ensuring balance of economic interests of the business entities functioning in the sphere of platform economy and also providing guarantees of observance of the rights and legitimate interests of physical persons and legal entities;

5) increase in availability of implementation of trading activity, performance of works, rendering services for business entities, including subjects of small and medium business.

3. Provisions of this Federal Law are not applied to the relations, connected:

1) with the organization and implementation of activities of audiovisual services, activities of persons which are credit institutions, not credit financial credit institutions and also persons rendering professional services in the financial market;

2) with provision of the license to use of programs for electronic computers, databases by means of the program for electronic computers which is intended for search, viewing and acquisition of the specified programs, databases;

3) with distribution only the goods, services belonging to owners of information resources.

4. Action of provisions of this Federal Law does not extend to operators of investment platforms, operators of the state and municipal information systems, operators of other information systems (information resources) created according to the Federal Laws on operators of electronic platforms and operators of the specialized electronic platforms functioning in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation about contractual system in the sphere of purchases of goods, works, services for ensuring the state and municipal needs, the legislation of the Russian Federation in the sphere of purchases of goods, works, services as separate types of legal entities, the legislation of the Russian Federation on insolvency (bankruptcy) or the legislation of the Russian Federation on privatization.

Article 2. The basic concepts used in this Federal Law

For the purposes of this Federal Law the following basic concepts are used:

1) platform economy - set of the organizational and property relations developing as a result of interaction of the unrestricted group of people by means of digital platforms for implementation of business activity or in other purposes including which are not connected with implementation of business activity;

2) digital platform - information system, and (or) the website on the Internet, and (or) the programs for electronic computers providing technical, organizational, information and other capabilities for interaction of the unrestricted group of people including for the purpose of exchange of information and its distribution, sales of goods, performance of works, rendering services;

3) the owner of digital platform - person providing the organization of interaction of users of digital platform, including independently and at discretion determining the purposes and procedure for use of digital platform, including procedure for placement of information on such platform, taking into account the provisions provided by this Federal Law;

4) the partner of intermediary digital platform (further - the partner) - the legal entity, the foreign legal entity, the foreign organization, not being the legal entity, the individual entrepreneur or physical person, including the foreign citizen or the stateless person (except for the physical persons making among themselves on intermediary digital platform of the transaction, not connected with implementation of business activity) applying special tax regime "Tax on the professional income" according to the Federal Law of November 27, 2018 No. 422-FZ "About carrying out experiment on establishment of special tax regime "Tax on the professional income" and being the partner seller and (or) the partner contractor performing activities on intermediary digital platform;

5) the partner seller - the partner who signed the civil contract with the operator of intermediary digital platform and performing the activities on intermediary digital platform directed to sales of goods to users buyers;

6) the partner contractor - the partner who signed the civil contract with the operator of intermediary digital platform and performing the activities on intermediary digital platform directed to performance of works, rendering services for users customers within the civil relations on condition of observance of the requirements provided by this Federal Law;

7) the user of intermediary digital platform (further - the user) - the person which is not the operator of intermediary digital platform and using technical capabilities of intermediary digital platform for the purpose of purchase of goods (user buyer) and (or) receipts of results of performance of works, rendering services (user customer);

8) the operator of intermediary digital platform (further - the operator) - the legal entity, the foreign legal entity, the foreign organization, not being the legal entity, the individual entrepreneur, the foreign citizen or the person without citizenship rendering the services connected with the organization of interaction of partners and users on intermediary digital platform, and which are the owner of such digital platform or person with whom this owner signed the agreement on operation of intermediary digital platform;

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