The Ministry of the Economic Academy received instructions to accelerate the locking of falsification in the markets

The meeting took place on February 20, the Ministry of Economic Development was instructed to finish the bill “in the economy of the platform”. According to the current version of the document, copyright holders may require deleting cards with falsification, but the procedure takes up to 30 days. As the Kommersant source explained, for this period the goods are generally sold.

The total blocking time through the Court can reach six months, added Anton Guskov, a representative of the Association of Commercial Companies and Producers of Electric and Informatics Technology (RASEK). According to him, the business proposed to force online platforms to introduce personal rooms, with the help of the copyright holders will confirm the originality of goods and the legality of the sale.

What are the sites? Representatives of the market called excessive initiative. Ozon said there is already a “brand office” on the platform, where brand owners can control the authenticity and quality of goods. During the past year, several million cards were blocked at the request of copyright holders, the company said.

Wildberries declared that they use the service that “allows the official representatives of the merchants to confirm their rights over the brand”, and the brand representatives may approve or reject the applications of the vendors. The Association of Digital Platforms, which unites the largest markets, said they consider the most effective industry measures in the fight against falsification and oppose additional regulation. In Yandex.Markete, they refused to comment

Opinion of the Ministry of Economy. Consumer protection obligations should not be imposed on all online platforms, said Vladimir Voloshin, director of the Department of Digital Development and data of the Ministry of Economic Development. “Such load will be excessive and inappropriate, for example, when selling colors,” he said.

• The measures to combat falsification in the market business and Via agreed in September 2024. Then, in particular, it was discussed by the provision of access to the market to the state registry of trademarks.
• At a meeting on February 20, the FAS received instructions to develop antimonopoly requirements for markets and determine the criteria of the platforms, which must be considered “large.” The latter can limit in matters of promoting their own goods, the number of orders for orders and the size of investments in discounts and shares.