Legal form

Classifier

The Russian Federation has an all-Russian classifier of organizational and legal forms (OKOPF).

The business entities in OKOPF include any legal entities , as well as organizations operating without a legal entity, and individual entrepreneurs .

In the All-Russian Classifier of Organizational and Legal Forms (OKOPF) (OK 028-99 (as amended by No. 1/99)) each legal form corresponds to a two-digit numeric code, the name of the organizational legal form, the collection algorithm.

From 01.01.2013, the new version of the All-Russian Classifier of Organizational and Legal Forms (OKOPF) OK 028-2012 was adopted and put into effect by the order of the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology dated October 16, 2012, instead of the All-Russian Classifier of Organizational and Legal Forms (OKOPF) OK 028-99.

There are the following types of legal forms of business entities (hereinafter also OPF):

OPF of economic entities that are legal entities-commercial organizations

• Partnerships
  • Full partnerships
  • Partnership on faith
• Societies
  • Limited Liability Companies
• Stock companies
  • Public Joint Stock Companies
  • Non-public joint-stock companies
• Unitary enterprises
  • Unitary enterprises based on the law of economic management
  • Unitary enterprises based on operational management law
• Other
  • Production cooperatives
  • Peasant farms (since January 1, 2010)
  • Business partnerships

OPF of economic entities that are non-profit legal entities

• Consumer cooperatives
• Public associations (including religious associations)
  • Public organizations
  • Social movements
  • The authorities of public initiative
  • Political parties
  • Unions
• Funds (including public funds)
• Institutions (including public institutions)
• State corporations
• Non-profit partnerships
• Autonomous non-profit organizations
• Indigenous Minority Communities
• Cossack society
• Associations of legal entities ( associations and unions )
• Associations of peasant farms
• Territorial public authorities
• Homeowners' Partnerships
• Horticultural, vegetable garden or country non-profit partnerships

OPF of economic entities without forming a legal entity

• Mutual investment funds
• Simple partnerships
• Representative offices and branches
• Individual entrepreneurs
• Investment partnership

Examples of OPF

state and municipal institutions

The simplest name of the OPF of state institutions are FGU (federal) and GU (regional, Moscow and St. Petersburg). Sometimes the word “budgetary” is added to the OPF, for example, the OPF of forestry, correctional colonies. The name of the OPF may include the word "regional" and even the name of the subject of the Russian Federation: "Novosibirsk region", "city of Moscow", but not necessarily.

OPF public institutions:

• Federal state institution
• Federal state autonomous institution
• Regional State Institution (State Regional Institution), OGU
• State institution
• Federal State Institution
• Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science

• Regional State Institution
• State budgetary institution of the Novosibirsk region
• State budgetary institution of the city of Moscow
• State budget institution
• State (municipal) state institution

The educational, health and cultural institutions have their own names for the OPF:

OPF educational institutions:

• Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education
• State educational institution of higher vocational education
• State educational institution of secondary vocational education
• State educational institution
• Municipal budgetary educational institution
• Municipal preschool educational institution
• Municipal institution of additional education

OPF military educational institutions:

• Federal State Military Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education
• State Military Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education

OPF institutions for the execution of sentences:

• Federal Governmental Institution

OPF health care institutions:

• Federal public health institution
• Public health institution
• Municipal health facility

OPF cultural institutions:

• Federal state cultural institution
• State budgetary institution of culture of Sverdlovsk region
• State cultural institution of the city of Moscow

Unusual OPF:

• Regional state educational institution for orphans and children left without parental care
• State special rehabilitation educational institution of secondary vocational education - technical school for disabled people
• The federal state educational institution of secondary (complete) general education "Astrakhan Suvorov Military School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation" - does not have the indication "military".

state and municipal unitary enterprises

OPF unitary enterprises:

• Federal State Unitary Enterprise
• State regional unitary enterprise
• State Unitary Enterprise
• Municipal unitary enterprise

• Entity
• Organization
• commercial organization
• Non-profit organization

• Civil Code of the Russian Federation . Part one. Chapter 4
• Federal Law " On Non-Profit Organizations "
• Federal Law of 19.05.1995 No. 82-ФЗ “On Public Associations”
• Resolution of the State Standard of the Russian Federation No. 97 of March 30, 1999 (as amended on 09.06.2001) “On the Adoption and Enactment of All-Russian Classifiers” (together with the “All-Russian Classifier of Forms of Ownership” OK 027-99)

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