The law, for the first time, sets out the conditions under which non-commercial trading organisations and suppliers’ organisations can take part in shaping and implementing state trade policy.
The law contains a number of anti-monopoly measures aimed at ending trade practices in the foodstuffs sector.
The Government has been instructed to monitor the law’s implementation throughout 2010, paying particular attention to changing prices for the main types of foodstuffs and consumer goods; developing retail trade; guaranteeing conditions for fair competition in access for producers to the trading organisations’ services.
The Government has been instructed, if a need to make changes to the laws on state regulation of trade becomes clear, to immediately draft the appropriate proposals.