Meeting of Committee to Combat Illicit Trafficking in Industrial Products

17 March 2021, Wednesday

Today, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan hosted a meeting of the Tatarstan Committee to Combat Illicit Trafficking in Industrial Products in the Republic of Tatarstan.

The participants to the meeting considered the issues of compliance with requirements for mandatory marking by product identification means, discussed the work being done to raise the level of legal literacy of entrepreneurs selling food and non-food products, as well as alcoholic and alcohol-containing products in the territory of Tatarstan.

Given the intensive development of Internet trading, measures are gaining in importance for eliminating the market of counterfeit supporting documents, introducing mandatory use of information resources on unfair manufacturers, importers, suppliers, sellers of industrial products, and developing public mechanisms for the protection of intellectual property rights. This area was reflected in the Strategy to Combat Illicit Trafficking in Industrial Products in the Russian Federation until 2025, approved by the Russian Government. Representatives of the Tatarstan Office of the Russian consumer protection agency Rospotrebnadzor and the Tatarstan Alcohol Inspectorate spoke about their work with consumers purchasing goods (services) via the Internet and protection of their rights.

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