Chapter 76. Rights to the Means of Individualization
of Legal Entities, Goods, Works, Services and Enterprises

§ 1. The Right to a Company Name

Article 1473. The Company Name

1. A legal entity being a commercial organization acts in civil-law transactions under its own company name, which is defined in its constitutive documents and is included in the comprehensive state register of legal entities at the state registration of the legal entity.

2. The company name of the legal entity shall comprise a reference to its organizational legal form and the name of the legal entity proper, which cannot be composed only of words designating a kind of activity.

3. The legal entity shall have a full company name and is entitled to have a brief company name in Russian. The legal entity is also entitled to have a full and/or an abbreviated company name in the languages of peoples of the Russian Federation and/or in foreign languages.
The company name of the legal entity in Russian and in the languages of peoples of the Russian Federation may comprise borrowed foreign words in a Russian transcription or in a transcription of the languages of peoples of the Russian Federation, except for the terms and abbreviations reflecting the legal entity's organizational legal form.

4. The following shall not be included in the company name of a legal entity:
1) the full or abbreviated official names of the Russian Federation, foreign states, and also derivative words from such names;
2) the full or abbreviated official names of federal governmental bodies, governmental bodies of subjects of the Russian Federation and local self-government bodies;
3) the full or abbreviated names of international and inter-governmental organizations;
4) the full or abbreviated names of public associations;
5) designations inconsistent with the public interest and also with humane and moral principles.
The company name of a state unitary enterprise may contain reference to the enterprise's belonging to the Russian Federation and to a subject of the Russian Federation respectively.
The official name of the Russian Federation and the words derivative from that name may be included in the company name of a joint-stock company by the permission of the Government of the Russian Federation if over 75 per cent of its shares belong to the Russian Federation. Such permission shall be issued without an indication of the specific effective term of the permission and it may be revoked if the circumstances due to which it has been issued no longer exist. The procedure for issuing and revoking permissions shall be established by a law.
If a permission for inclusion of the official name of the Russian Federation or derivatives from it in the company name of a joint-stock company has been revoked the joint-stock company shall amend its charter accordingly within three months.
5. If the company name of a legal entity does not comply with the provisions of Items 3 or 4 of the present article the body responsible for the state registration of legal entities is entitled to file a claim against such legal entity whereby it is forced to change its company name.

 

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