The Commission was established under the Federal Law On the Procedure for Facilitating Foreign Investment in Legal Entities Having Strategic Importance for National Defence and State Security. The Commission oversees foreign investment in legal entities that have strategic importance for national defence and state security.

The Commission has the following responsibilities:

• preliminary coordination of deals entailing the imposition of control over strategic legal entities by a foreign investor or a group of private individuals and legal entities comprising a foreign investor;

• coordinating the imposition of control over strategic legal entities by a foreign investor or a group of private individuals and legal entities comprising a foreign investor or denying such coordination.

Members:

Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister (Chairman of the Commission);

Igor Shuvalov, First Deputy Prime Minister (Deputy Chairman of the Commission);

Igor Artemyev, Head of the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (Executive Secretary of the Commission);

Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Federal Security Service;

Anton Vaino, Minister of the Russian Federation and Chief of the Government Staff;

Sergei Kiriyenko, General Director of the State Nuclear Power Corporation Rosatom;

Alexander Konovalov, Minister of Justice;

Elvira Nabiullina, Minister of Economic Development;

Alexander Novak, Deputy Minister of Finance;

Vladimir Popovkin, Head of the Federal Space Agency;

Dmitry Rogozin, Deputy Prime Minister;

Vladimir Selin, Head of the Federal Service for Technical and Export Control;

Anatoly Serdyukov, Minister of Defence;

Igor Sechin, Deputy Prime Minister;

Yury Trutnev, Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection;

Viktor Khristenko, Minister of Industry and Trade;

Sergei Shmatko, Minister of Energy;

Igor Shchegolev, Minister of Telecommunications and Mass Communications.