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Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine holds a working meeting with bread manufacturers.

On June 26, 2019 representatives of the Committee together with the residents of All-Ukrainian Bakers Association (AUBA) analysed the current condition of the bread and bakery products market and prospects of the industry development.

During the meeting, AUBA members defined the following pressing issues in the bread and bakery products market: - absence of reliable branch statistics and record keeping system of non-industrial manufacturers; - different terms of taxation for different categories of manufacturers; - ‘shadow’ markets of bread and raw materials for baking bread; - large-scale returns of products from chain stores.

AUBA president Volodymyr Chereda said that at this stage industrial manufacturers of bakery products are discriminated due to the different approaches to taxation for private manufacturers who are charged according to simplified procedure. According to him, the possibility of discriminatory approaches to different market participants needs to be revised and rectified through changes in legislation.

AUBA vice-president Vladyslav Averchenko emphasized during the meeting that unconscientious marking of bakery products by small-scale manufacturers, optional packaging and delay of payments by chain stores have negative impact on development of healthy competition between the market participants.

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