The State Duma was asked to support the introduction of operational blocking of counterfeit goods at the cash registers.

The State Duma is asking to support the operational blocking of counterfeiting at the cash registers. Such amendments to the legislation were prepared by Sergey Lisovsky, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee for the Protection of Competition and a representative of the United Russia faction.

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"The problem is that counterfeit goods are not promptly blocked at the cash desks. In this regard, I have prepared amendments to the legislation, which have already been supported by Rospotrebnadzor and the Ministry of Industry and Trade, but the Ministry of Economic Development does not support them. In other words, we have created in Russia the only product labeling system in the world that allows us to protect the health of our nation, and we have invested a huge amount of money in it. She could start paying for herself, but we still can't use her to her full potential," the deputy explained to Izvestia.

In this regard, the deputy sent an appeal to the Deputy Prime Minister, head of the government staff Dmitry Grigorenko with a proposal to amend the legislation and give representatives of Rospotrebnadzor (chief sanitary doctors and their deputies) the right to make decisions on the prohibition or suspension of products that do not meet the requirements.

Currently, Government Decree No. 1944 establishes the basis for prohibiting the sale of labeled goods — it can be adopted by decision of the state control bodies within their powers. However, the federal law "On State Control and Municipal Supervision" allows restricting the turnover of such goods only in court. At the same time, Article 90 of the law provides for the right to establish other decisions on the types of control.

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