MOSCOW, June 4 Russian marketplaces need to be allowed to develop; there is no need to rush to introduce special regulation of this segment, he said Head of Sberbank German Gref during an open dialogue in the Federation Council.
«»We need to let them (marketplaces — ed.) develop, because this is a very serious additional impetus, including for the development of small and medium-sized businesses. I would not rush there…, most importantly, there must be strong competition «, he answered the question about special legislative regulation regarding marketplaces.
In May, Senator Andrei Kutepov and Deputy Vladimir Gutenev introduced their bill to the State Duma on regulating the activities of information aggregators for goods (marketplaces) in early March, it was supported by the economic committee of the Federation Council.
Later, Minister of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev announced that the Cabinet of Ministers, primarily the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Digital Development, are developing a new project to regulate the work of marketplaces. According to him, this will be a large separate comprehensive bill.