Markets will be prohibited from making discounts on goods without sellers permission

The authors of the bill also propose to prohibit aggregators to block the personal account or goods cards, reduce the rating or worsen the card position in the search results for sellers who refused to discount their own cost OA Market expenses.

According to the document, seellers may establish the minimum price of goods in the personal account, and markets will not provide a discount, which reduces the cost below this limit. Sellers may also indicate the minimum price duration and the amount of goods to which it is applied. The minimum price will be considered a discount, and the aggregators will not have to receive it additionally.

The bill on the regulation of online platforms has been discussed since autumn. He said that the operator should notify the partners to reduce the price at their own cost or expenses of a partner in at least two weeks, as well as obtain the consent of the partner to reduce the price to their coast. The consent to reduce the expense price of a partner cannot be expressed in the form of silence (inaction) in response to a notification. Both points, according to Vedomosti, remained in the new version of the document.

The bill establishes the procedure to reduce the price of the product of a partner only upon receiving its apparent consent to avoid the practice of coercive sellers to participate in actions, said the Ministry of Economic Development. These measures will help avoid abuse and protect the interests of consumers and vendors, indicated there.

The Wildberries representative told Vdomosti that the platforms have already implemented options for which sellers can administer the participation of their assets in shares. For example, sellers can establish a minimum price of goods and block the participation of products in automatic action. Ozon refused to comment.