The Director of the Trade Development Department of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine Igor GARBARUK stated this during the round-table talk concerning discussion of this bill.

According to his information the bill focuses not on the trade regulation but on the provision of customers with quality and fairy priced products. The bill will also prevent uncontrolled growth of prices.

I. GARBARUK pointed out that this document will positively influence the process of retail internet trade unshadowing by means of development of shops of modern forms which have a share of 18% now.

He added that the necessity to draft and adopt the bill is determined by the fact that today the requirements regulating trade activity are scattered in different laws and legislative documents, the problem is also in the absence of web business regulation, lack of skilled personnel and of provision with sales areas.

The bill introduces the requirement which defines that only commercial entities working in the general taxation system may rent sales area more than 200 square meters.

The document envisages that fish, meat and poultry meat will be sold only in stationery trade objects while tobacco and cigarettes will be sold in special places. The bill also introduces the prohibition on receiving payment for rendering marketing and advertising services when selling socially important food products.

Web businessmen will be obliged to have office premises for customers to have a possibility to return defective products or to lay a claim.

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Source: proretail.info