FAS will strengthen control over the implementation of the law on trade

The First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government, Viktor Zubkov, instructed the Federal Antimonopoly Service to increase the intensity of control measures, including unscheduled inspections, when checking retail chains for compliance with the trade law, RIA Novosti reports.

"I want to pay special attention that the inconsistencies in the draft contracts were revealed, in particular, attempts to include various kinds of services in the contracts, increase the goods and transport expenses, exceed the permitted amount of remuneration, include various kinds of advertising services and other financial obligations not provided for by law. They will ultimately fall into the price of the product for which the consumer will be paid. You can’t, ”said Zubkov on Friday at a meeting of the working group on coordination of work on the implementation of the Federal Law on Trade.

The law on trade entered into force on February 1, 2010, and the transition period within its framework ended on August 1, 2010. By this moment, retailers were supposed to bring contracts with suppliers in accordance with the Law on Trade.

“I think and I believe that the FAS will restore order here,” said the first Deputy Prime Minister, who oversees the agricultural sector.

Meanwhile, the state itself is not in a hurry to fulfill the provisions of the law on trade. So, the government is at all in a hurry to “freeze” prices for too quickly expensive food, although there are already legal grounds for this. The lawmakers again propose to prescribe a margin on socially significant products in a maximum of 15%.

The speaker of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov proposed to introduce state regulation of prices for socially significant products, setting them for a maximum margin of 15%. "The law, one of the authors of which I am.

On the list, the Speaker of the Council proposes to introduce the so -called socially significant products that "people buy, first of all, socially unprotected layers." “If such a law is adopted, then we will be guaranteed from rash and completely unjustified increase in price prices at times or by tens of percent,” the politician is sure. “If someone says that this is not a market measure, I assure you - this is, first of all, a human measure aimed at protecting citizens.” However, the officials already had a chance to act "humanly", according to the current Law "On Trade". According to it, the government has the right to set for a period of not more than 90 days the maximum permissible retail prices for certain types of socially significant food products. Prices can be “frozen” if, over the past 30 days in the territory of the constituent entity of the Federation, prices for such goods amounted to more than 30%.

Meanwhile, according to the official figures of Rosstat, for some socially significant food products, prices for prices over the past 30 days have already exceeded 30% not only in individual entities, but throughout the country.