This week a joint meeting of the Committee for National Maritime Policy and the Committee for Natural Monopolies (under the Council of Federations) has been held in St. Petersburg. Its major issue was the approval of seaport limits which became more complicated after the Law on Seaports of the Russian Federation came into effect. Geographical coordinates are not enough for borders approval today. Cadastral plans are required as well as the layouts of territorial planning for different types of transport on both federal and regional levels. To avoid the process delay it was decided to approve the limits stage by stage having started from the outer limits of the existing ports