The second of the six key innovations in the draft law

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According to him, the main task of regulating marketplaces is to ensure that it benefits the development of the industry and takes into account the interests of all participants. "And this is 500 thousand employees of the industry, 500 thousand partners who own order pick-up points, and two million people who bahamas whatsapp resource trade on these platforms. But we must not forget about the 70 million consumers who use the entire infrastructure of the e-commerce industry. These are all those who participate in this law and whose interests must be taken into account. This is the position of the State Duma deputies, the authors of the bill, this is the position of the government," said Dmitry Gusev.

"On Marketplaces" concerns the ban on changing the offer agreement more than once a year. "The position of individual entrepreneurs is this: the offer agreement must be unchanged. And they refer, for example, to the telephone company: they entered into an agreement, and while you use the company's services, the tariffs cannot change without your consent," explained Dmitry Gusev.

At the same time, according to the deputy, the industry's position is to leave the possibility of changing this agreement in a way that is beneficial to them, so that they can earn and develop. "The position of the deputies is a compromise solution to change the offer agreement once a year. And this is what is reflected in the amendments. I consider this position fair, because even our housing and communal services tariffs change once a year, although this is also a vital monopoly industry," Dmitry Gusev noted.

Fines for sellers

The third key issue in the law "On marketplaces" concerns fines from trading platforms towards suppliers. According to the deputy, the mechanism of these fines has not been fully defined and remains a subject for discussion. Dmitry Gusev emphasized that foreign laws on e-commerce clearly spell out procedures for how fines are imposed on suppliers, how they are appealed, etc. "I think that we need to follow this path and spell out all these procedures in more detail before the second reading. Because the story is clear: individual entrepreneurs do not want to be fined, platforms, of course, want to fine as they see fit. And here we need to find some procedures within which this will be clear to all market participants," Dmitry Gusev emphasized.

The fourth issue is the ban on blocking the seller's personal account. Currently, marketplaces disconnect violating sellers from their platforms without warning, and after this, funds that the entrepreneur did not have time to withdraw to a bank account may be blocked. "You cannot block a personal account, because this, of course, infringes on the rights of the weaker party in the contract - in this case, it is the individual entrepreneur. And this position has been included in the law," Dmitry Gusev explained the position of the deputies.

The fifth point of the amendments concerns the ban on the introduction of private labels by marketplaces, since they know the preferences of buyers better than manufacturers and can adapt to them by releasing goods under their own brand. For example, Yandex.Market sells branded TVs with the Yandex TV operating system, smart speakers with Alice and other branded goods through its marketplace. "I think that this is also a question for discussion - what should be considered a private label, how to do it so as not to infringe on the rights of either marketplaces or the rights of individual entrepreneurs-sellers," noted Dmitry Gusev, making it clear that there are no final decisions on the wording that will be included in the law.