RF State Duma May Consider Draft Law On New Rules For Retailers In This Year's Spring Session

In May 2015 the RF State Duma adopted at the first reading the Draft Law on Amendments to Certain Legal Acts of the RF Concerning Antimonopoly Regulation and Ensuring Food Safety¹ ("Draft Law"), which was introduced by a group of deputies led by I. A. Yarovaya. The Draft Law is to amend Federal Law No. 381-FZ on the Fundamentals of State Regulation of Trade Activities in the Russian Federation dated 28 December 2009 ("Retail Law") and the RF Administrative Penal Code (APeC). The principal changes introduced by the Draft Law pursue the following objectives:

• Reducing the percentage of bonuses (fee) that suppliers of food goods pay retailers to promote goods (known as "retrobonuses") – from the current 10% to 3% of the price of food goods;