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In accordance with Decree of the Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers No. 1969-r of 26.12.2003, the Organising Committee has decided to hold the next annual contest “Best Goods and Services of Tatarstan 2021”, as part of the “100 Best Goods of Russia” programme.

The objectives of the contest include encouraging manufacturers to produce high-quality and competitive goods, promoting domestic products in the market, increasing consumer confidence, and creating an innovative and proactive manufacturing environment.

Diplomas are awarded to all participants of the contest. Winners and 1st degree diploma holders are granted the right to use the contest logo for marking their products. Every year, the catalogues of the Best Goods and Services of Tatarstan contest are published. In accordance with the decision of the Organising Committee, for consistently high quality indicators of products and services, companies receive the highest award of the contest, “Tatarstan’s Quality Leader Prize”.

The winners of the Best Goods and Services of Tatarstan republic’s contest are promoted for the federal stage of the 100 Best Goods of Russia Programme.

You can find the documents for participation in the contest at the “Best Goods and Services of Tatarstan” section (in Russian).

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov had a meeting with Minister of Industry of Belarus Pyotr Parkhomchik as part of his visit to Tatarstan. During the meeting, the parties discussed current issues of further cooperation and development of collaboration with Belarusian enterprises.

The delegation of the Ministry of Industry of Belarus included Director General of MTZ Vitaly Vovk, Director General of MAZ Valery Ivankovich, Director General of BATE Aleksandr Marchenko, Director General of BMZ Dmitry Korchik, Director General of MZKK Aleksey Rimashevsky, Deputy Marketing Director for Commerce in CIS countries Mikhail Vardugin, as well as Head of the Kazan Office of the Belarussian Embassy in Russia Oleg Isaev.

Representatives of Belarussian mechanical engineering companies visited the KAMAZ production shops, accompanied by its Director General Sergey Kogogin.

They also made a tour of the ZF KAMA company specialising in the production of mechanical gearboxes, a cabin frame plant and visited the KAMAZ Scientific and Technical Centre, KAMAZ-Autosport, and the site of the KAMAZ-Master team. As part of their programme, the Belarussian delegation visited TPK MTZ-Tatarstan, TatProm Holding and had meetings with executives of TEMPO, Director General of Tatelektromash Fail Sharifullin, and Director General of NPO Tatelektromash Ildus Islamov.

Today, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan hosted a meeting between German Lerner, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan, and Zsolt Katona, ‎Area Managing Director Eastern European Area at Maersk.

The meeting was attended by representatives of the Tatarstan Ministry of Construction, Architecture and Housing, the Tatarstan Ministry of Transport and Roads, municipalities of Tatarstan and representatives of the Tatneftekhiminvest Holding, Himgrad, the Kazan Aviation Plant, the Ak Bars Holding Company, the Kama-Trucks Holding, and the Kazan Motor-Building Production Association.

During the meeting, Maersk presented its project of container logistics in the region and an assessment of the prospects for centralising cargo flows in Tatarstan, as well as the development of maritime transport.

Maersk is a global logistics integrator for international container transportation. Today, the Maersk fleet consists of 711 container vessels and is the world’s largest.

The company is actively developing inland container logistics with end-to-end delivery to final consignees within the country. In 2020, Maersk’s first multi-temperature warehouse for 50,000 tonnes of chilled and frozen products was built and put into operation in St. Petersburg. The company’s future plans include a network of terminals and multi-building warehouses in the largest regions of Russia.

Within the framework of the Labour Productivity national project, the Tatarstan Regional Competence Centre, with the support from the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan, has implemented a pilot project on labour productivity improvement at OOO Azbuka Syra company.

A project office was established at the company with the responsibility to initiate new projects, according to the plan for involvement of production and information flows/processes into the Labour Productivity Improvement Programme for 3 years.

The project to improve labour productivity in the company has fully achieved its objectives. Successful implementation of the project resulted in reducing the process time by 13% and cutting the stocks in the flow by 25%, while achieving a 20% increase in the labour productivity.

The Labour Productivity and Employment Support national project was approved by a Decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin in May 2018 and is designed to create conditions for an annual increase of 5% in labour productivity throughout the country by 2024. To implement the tasks set, the Russian Government initiated a package of measures to support businesses, which includes financial incentives, employment support, and expert assistance in optimising production processes.

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.

Since July 1, 2020, guaranteed suppliers and grid organisations of Tatarstan have begun to create intelligent electricity accounting systems that include the installation of smart counters to republic’s consumers (in accordance with the Federal Law No. 522-FZ of December 27, 2018).

Intelligent accounting devices or smart counters are the new generation counters that read, memorise, and accumulate information in real time, monitor the quality of utility resources and transmit remote data.

Installation of smart accounting devices in Tatarstan is carried out by Tatenergosbyt in apartment buildings, and by Tatarstan Grid Company in the detached house suburbs and for legal entities.

To submit an application for installation, replacement, removal, programming, or clearing electricity metering devices for operation, you need to register or log in to your personal account.

You can transmit the readings of the devices and learn about electricity consumption in the following ways: having made a free call to a contact centre by number 8-800-2000-878; using the services of the Tatenergosbyt portal; using the services of the Tatarstan Portal of Public Services.

Today, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Ivan Kolchin had a video conference meeting with representatives of the DaEvet trading platform. During the meeting, the parties discussed issues of bilateral cooperation in the field of light industry.

DaEvet is an international B2B online trading platform, which connects buyers from all over Russia with Turkish suppliers, as well as buyers from all over Turkey with Russian manufacturers of goods.

The main goal of the company is to provide a trading platform for small and medium-sized businesses, large businesses, as well as individual entrepreneurs.

Marking of clothing and textiles has been introduced from January 1, 2021, but the remnants that were not sold out to this date could be marked until February 1. To make a business more comfortable to work with marked goods, this period has been extended until May 1. The corresponding government resolution was published on the pravo.gov.ru portal.

“The extension of the marking period would, first of all, enable stores to observe all the rules and sell out the goods remained since last year. The Chestny Znak system registered more than 125,000 participants in the turnover of light industry goods. More than 1.3 billion markings codes were issued”, Deputy Director General of the Advanced Technology Development Centre Vera Volkova said.

Digital marking is provided, in particular, for leather clothes, female knitwear, coats, rainwear, bedding, kitchen, table linen. Companies working with these goods is the most numerous group in the Chestny Znak system.

The marking itself is designed to protect consumers from poor quality, illegal goods, and business from unfair competition. Checking the legality of a coat or jacket is easy using the Chestny Znak application: just scan the marking code. To date, users have already checked more than 2.5 million light industry goods.

The Consumer International (CI) announced that, in this year 2021, the World Consumer Rights Day’s motto celebrated annually on March 15 is “Tackling Plastic Pollution”. Fighting plastic pollution is a global problem requiring coordinated international solutions.

The theme of this year will contribute to raising awareness and attracting consumers worldwide to the adoption and promotion of more environmentally friendly solutions when buying goods.

It is assumed that the campaign will also play an important role for consumers, governments, and manufacturers of plastic products that can be united in overcoming the global plastic pollution crisis.

According to experts, the World Ocean will be polluted with three times more plastic by 2040, if no drastic measures will be taken today in the countries’ policies, innovations, and changes in consumer behaviour. According to discouraging forecasts, there will be more plastic in the World Ocean than fish by 2050.

The main ways through which consumers can positively influence the environment are a deliberate choice of products used by them and how consumers dispose of products at the end of their lifecycle, including a refusal of excessive plastic consumption, especially disposable goods, and unnecessary plastic packaging.

Yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov visited the Sverdlovsk Region as part of a working visit, where he had meetings with Deputy Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region Azat Salikhov and Minister of Industry and Science of the Sverdlovsk Region Sergei Perestoronin. In addition, Minister Karimov met with Director General of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company Andrey Kozitsyn and the management of Uralelectromed, and also visited the Museum of Military Equipment.

The Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC) is one of the largest producers of cathode copper, providing about 40% of Russian production. In addition to copper cathodes, UMMC produces copper wire rod, copper powders and products made from them, selenium, tellurium, copper sulphate, nickel sulphate, silver and gold ingots, and a concentrate of platinum group metals. The non-ferrous metallurgy division of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company includes 7 enterprises located in the Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, and Orenburg regions.

Uralelectromed is a branch of the UMMC, which produces cathodes using basic and ISA-process technologies. In 2018, they put into operation the second stage of a new copper electrolysis workshop using an ISA-process technology with a rated capacity of 160,000 tonnes of cathode copper per year. In terms of the technology used, equipping, mechanisation and automation, working conditions, the new workshop meets the newest international standards.