The document specifies index rates for excise taxes imposed on all tobacco products for the period 2008 to 2010. The rates are to be kept intact for RYO and pipe tobacco for the sake of legal import of those products. The specific component of the excise tax for filter tips and ovals/papirosy (Russian cigarettes) is to be indexed by 20 and 28 per cent a year correspondingly, whereas the ad valorem component is to be raised by 0.5 per cent each year.