FEDERAL LAW OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

of December 29, 2025 No. 520-FZ

About the admission to implementation of carriages of goods by road transport on the territory of the Russian Federation and about modification of separate legal acts of the Russian Federation

Accepted by the State Duma on December 16, 2025

Approved by the Federation Council on December 19, 2025

Article 1. Subject, purposes and scope of this Federal Law

1. This Federal Law governs the relations connected with the admission to provision of services on carriages of goods by vehicles on the territory of the Russian Federation.

2. The purposes of this Federal Law are forming of the legal conditions and mechanisms providing protection of interests of legal entities and physical persons to which services in carriages of goods by vehicles, improvement of the quality and safety of carriages of goods by vehicles are rendered.

3. Action of provisions of this Federal Law extends to carriages of goods by vehicles on the territory of the Russian Federation based on the transportation agreement of the load or other agreement providing cargo delivery obligation in destination for a fee with use of the vehicle (further - the paid agreement).

4. Action of provisions of this Federal Law does not extend to carriages of goods by road transport:

1) performed by the vehicles intended for carriage of goods and having technically the admissible maximum weight no more than three tons of five hundred kilograms;

2) when implementing the international motor transportations and cabotage motor transportations;

3) without departure of vehicles on highways public.

Article 2. The basic concepts used in this Federal Law

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

1) the vehicle - the vehicle of category "N" intended for carriages of goods, including with use of trail car or semitrailer truck, having technically the admissible maximum weight more than three tons of five hundred kilograms;

2) carrier of loads - the legal entity or the individual entrepreneur who got the admission to provision of services on carriages of goods by vehicles on the territory of the Russian Federation according to the procedure, provided by this Federal Law;

3) the register of carriers of loads road transport on the territory of the Russian Federation - the state information resource which is conducted electronically and contains the information about carriers of loads and about the vehicles used by them for carriages of goods;

4) authorized body - the federal executive body performing functions on control (supervision) in the field of transport.

Article 3. The admission to provision of services on carriages of goods by vehicles on the territory of the Russian Federation

1. The admission to provision of services on carriages of goods by vehicles on the territory of the Russian Federation based on the transportation agreement of load or other paid contract, including with use of trail car or semitrailer truck (further - the admission to provision of services on carriages of goods), is provided to the legal entity or the individual entrepreneur from the date of registration of the notification on the beginning of implementation of activities for provision of services on carriages of goods in the register of carriers of loads by road transport on the territory of the Russian Federation (further also - the register) and inclusions in the register of data at least on one vehicle, and also to the legal entity or the individual entrepreneur allowed to implementation of the international motor transportations.

2. The admission to provision of services carriages of goods is terminated from the date of exception of the register of information about carrier of loads or from the date of cancellation of the admission to implementation of the international motor transportations.

3. The information about legal entities, about the individual entrepreneurs having the admission to provision of services on carriages of goods and about the vehicles used by them is placed on the Internet according to the procedure, established by the federal executive body performing functions on development of state policy and normative legal regulation in the field of transport, except for data, access to which is limited according to the Federal Laws.

4. Cargo hauling by the vehicle on the territory of the Russian Federation based on the transportation agreement of load or other paid agreement (further - cargo hauling) in the absence of the admission on carriages of goods is not allowed to provision of services.

5. Cargo hauling by the vehicle, data on which are not included in the register provided by part of 1 this Article or in the register of the Russian carriers allowed to implementation of the international motor transportations is not allowed.

6. Distribution of information containing the offer on carriages of goods by person which has no admission to provision of services on carriages of goods is not allowed.

7. The transportation agreement of load signed with violation of requirements of parts 4 and 5 of this Article can be nullified by court upon the demand of the party of such agreement to which services in carriages of goods are rendered, except for of case if such agreement is performed by the parties.

8. The driver, data on whom are specified in the route sheet of the vehicle and which performs cargo hauling shall be the employee of carrier of loads or the individual entrepreneur who owns the vehicle on the property right or other legal cause (further - the owner of the vehicle).

9. In the documents provided for carriages of goods by the Federal Law of November 8, 2007 No. 259-FZ "Charter of road transport and urban land electric transportation" the same person as carrier of loads and the owner of the vehicle shall be specified.

Article 4. The register of carriers of loads road transport on the territory of the Russian Federation

1. The register is kept electronically on national digital transport and logistic platform of the Russian Federation "Goslog" authorized body according to the procedure established by the federal executive body performing functions on development of state policy and normative legal regulation in the field of transport.

2. Inclusion of information about the legal entity, about the individual entrepreneur and the vehicle in the register is performed no later than the working day following behind day of giving by the legal entity or the individual entrepreneur of the notification on the beginning of implementation of activities for provision of services on carriages of goods.

3. Control of reliability of the information provided by legal entities, individual entrepreneurs for inclusion in the register and introduction in it of changes, and also observance by them of the mandatory requirements established by this Federal Law is provided including with use of the information containing in other state information systems and provided with use of single system of interdepartmental electronic interaction.

4. The registration data of vehicles which are subject to inclusion in the register are confirmed by the data containing in the state register of vehicles, provided with use of single system of interdepartmental electronic interaction.

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