Consultant Plus is an assistance system

Computer-assisted legal research

Computer-assisted legal research or computer-based legal research is a mode of legal research that uses databases of court opinions, statutes, court documents, and secondary material. Electronic databases make large bodies of case law easily available...

 to work with the legislation of Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

. Consultant's centralized database is updated daily. It is distributed via a network of partners.

Its major competitors are Garant

Garant

GARANT is a complex of services based on a legal information resource developed by the “Garant Service” Scientific-Production Enterprise Open Joint Stock Company, the first large-scale commercial legal information system in Russia containing the legislation of the Russian Federation in the English...

and Codex and Techexpert, both proprietary

Proprietary software

Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...

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Full federal law database includes over 3 million documents; regional acts are distributed in a separate database with over 4 million documents.

The information contained in the system is structured into several notions, including:

1. legislation
   Legislation
   Legislation is law which has been promulgated by a legislature or other governing body, or the process of making it...
   
   
2. jurisprudence
   Jurisprudence
   Jurisprudence is the theory and philosophy of law. Scholars of jurisprudence, or legal theorists , hope to obtain a deeper understanding of the nature of law, of legal reasoning, legal systems and of legal institutions...
   
   
3. financial advices
4. legislation commentaries
5. document forms (templates)
6. legislation drafts
7. international legal acts
8. health protection legal acts
9. technical standards and rules

Every class mentioned above consists of several information banks to simplify the search throughout the database by manually excluding the classes and banks inappropriate for the each current search.

The database includes:

• normative legal acts of Russia and its federal subjects
  Federal subjects of Russia
  Russia is a federation which, since March 1, 2008, consists of 83 federal subjects . In 1993, when the Constitution was adopted, there were 89 federal subjects listed...
  
  , as well as international
• commentaries and explanations for them, precedents from the common practice
• articles and books from periodicals and text collections
• forms of account correspondence
• forms of the documents (officially standardized and approximate)
• other helpful information (accountant calendar, exchange rate
  Exchange rate
  In finance, an exchange rate between two currencies is the rate at which one currency will be exchanged for another. It is also regarded as the value of one country’s currency in terms of another currency...
  
  s, bank-rate, etc.)
• analytical reports

External links

Official site of Consultant Plus Artics - Consultant Plus information center web-site Internet-based version of ConsultantPlus Non-commercial projects of ConsultantPlus (for schools, universities, etc.)