The Prosecutor General’s Office proposed a single packaging of goods to regulate margins

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia proposed to the Ministry of Industry and Trade to introduce uniform requirements for the packaging of food products. According to the department, this will prevent manipulation and price fraud with socially significant goods.

“Market participants who hide reliable information about a product from the public and mislead about changes in its real value can provoke social tension by their actions. In this regard, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation was asked to take measures to resolve the situation, including by introducing uniform requirements for the packaging of goods,” the statement reads. message Prosecutor General’s Office.

In addition, the Prosecutor General’s Office emphasized that in order to counteract price manipulations and ensure a balance of interests of all participants in trade legal relations, prosecutors of the Russian regions are actively using preventive response measures.

Voluntary limitation of margins on socially important goods has already been introduced by federal retail chains. The maximum mark-up for such goods can be 5%. Later on the readiness to limit margins on basic socially important goods declared and regional retail chains.

In February, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Federal Antimonopoly Service did not support the initiative of the State Duma to limit trade margins on essential foodstuffs. The departments considered that this could lead to destabilization of the economy and a deficit.

More details – in the publication “Kommersant” “Products will be shareware”.

Milena Kostereva