Announced measures to improve living standards include limiting trade margins to 20 percent. Vučić pointed out at the conference that the measure applies to 23 groups of products and showed an example of baskets with lower prices.
President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić announced a decree that would trade margins starting next week, they will be limited to 20 percent, and now they are moving up to 45,2 percent in the largest chains, and that in the following period, by the end of the year, comprehensive measures to improve the standard of living will follow.
Vučić said at the press conference that laws on trade and consumer protection will be passed in the coming period, while the law on the prohibition of unfair trade practices is expected to be adopted by the end of the year.
By the announced regulation, margins will be limited for 23 groups of products, that is, about 3.000 products, which refer to 24 companies.
Delez, Mercator, Lidl, Univerekspert generate 51 percent of the total retail trade, Vučić said, claiming that almost 48 percent of the minimum wage is spent on food and soft drinks.
At the press conference, Vučić showed baskets in front of the cameras containing various products whose prices should be lower.
During the conference, he twice admonished journalists who laugh.
"I don't mind if you find something funny from Šolak's media, but I ask you to show basic respect in the place where you are," said Vučić.
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He asked them questions, I gave answers to them, and quoted hundreds of insults on his own account that he probably picked up from social networks.
Source: FoNet
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