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Zubkov to make conference call on retail markets

Special attention will be paid to compliance with the provisions of the law that concern the location of retail markets in permanent buildings

MOSCOW, November 17 (Itar-Tass) —— First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov will make a conference call on Thursday, November 17, to discuss compliance with the law “On Retail Markets and ion Amendments to the Labour Code of the Russian Federation”, which was adopted in 2006.

Members of federal and regional government agencies, mayors of cities with a population of more than 500,000, which are regional capitals of administrative centres, and representatives of industry unions (associations) of entrepreneurs, including agricultural producers, will take part in the conference call.

Special attention will be paid to compliance with the provisions of the law that concern the location of retail markets in permanent buildings.

The law stipulates that non-agricultural marketplaces in Moscow and St. Petersburg and of cities with a population of more than 500,000, which are regional capitals of administrative centres should be located in such buildings from January 1, 2012, other non-agricultural marketplaces from January 1, 2013, and all agricultural marketplaces and agricultural cooperative societies from January 1, 2015.