Currently, Russian marketplaces do not require tightening of anti-monopoly control. This industry has sufficient resources for market self-regulation, opens Words of representatives of the press service of TASS, the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media (Mintsifry).
24 March Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) reportedthat online retailer Wildberries is required to set up an internal arbitration to resolve disputes between vendors. This demand was voiced after the scandal with the mass strike of the owners of the ordering point in connection with the introduction of fines for employees of the collection point.
After that, the Ministry of Industry and Trade sent a letter to Maksut Shadayev, the head of the Ministry of Digital Development, with a proposal to exclude marketplaces from the scope of the decree limiting the antimonopoly control of accredited IT companies. However, the article notes that a member of the commission of the Ministry of Industry and Trade did not approve of such an attempt by Alexei Kozhevnikov to create conditions for self-regulation in electronic commerce.
“Marketplaces are IT companies. It is wrong to exclude them from the government decree (socialbites.ca dated March 24, 2022 – No. 448). Certain problems that arise in the relationship between marketplaces and their partners are successfully resolved on the basis of industry self-regulation, ”the press service of the Ministry of Digital Development concluded.
22 March Telegram channel With reference to sources Baza knowledgeableWildberry management has reportedly started talks with the owners of the order points participating in the strike over the fines of the pick-up point workers. At a meeting in Parliament, Wildberry representatives pledged to unblock strike points and cancel the fines they had accrued, and transfer some of the existing fines to a staggered system where the first violation would not be punished.