Exceeding the trade allowance for socially significant food products will be checked in shops and markets

Exceeding the trade allowance for socially significant food products will be checked in shops and markets

Food markets and convenience stores will be checked for compliance with the allowable 15% trade markup on socially important food products (NWFP).

The commission will include representatives of district akimats, business and investment departments, departments of trade, state revenues, sanitary and epidemiological control, the Agency for the Protection and Development of Competition, emergency situations in agreement with the prosecutor's office of Almaty. Raid events will cover 26 universal markets and 3,600 convenience stores in Almaty.

During the audit, entrepreneurs will be notified of their responsibility for exceeding the prices for NWTP by more than 15% of the purchase price and exceeding the maximum allowable retail prices (as they are established). In case of violations, measures will be taken in accordance with Art. 204-4 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Kazakhstan. So, for exceeding the trade markup for the first time, an entrepreneur will be issued a warning, for a repeated violation a fine in the amount of 10 to 300 MCI (30,630 to 918,900 tenge). For the initial excess of the maximum established price - a fine of 100 MCI (306,300 tenge), for a second - a fine of 200 MCI (612,600 tenge).

In order to comply with the current trade legislation, entrepreneurs will be offered an alternative option to direct supplies of groceries at wholesale prices, directly from major distributors and manufacturers of the Republic of Kazakhstan. This measure has been practiced in Almaty since the beginning of the year: today, more than 1 thousand convenience stores have been supplied, about 1.5 thousand tons of products have been shipped for 8 types of NWFP (eggs, sugar, rice, flour, sunflower oil, buckwheat, horns, salt) .

Recommended prices in Almaty until May 31, 2022:

  1. Wheat flour of the first grade - 230 tenge.
  2. Wheat bread from flour of the first grade - 100 tenge.
  3. Horns (by weight) - 230 tg.
  4. Buckwheat (unground, by weight) - 450 tenge.
  5. Polished rice (round-grain, by weight) - 280 tenge.
  6. Potato - 200 tenge.
  7. Table carrot - 220 tg.
  8. Bulb onion -130 tg.
  9. White cabbage - 250 tg.
  10. White sugar (granulated sugar) - 460 tg.
  11. Sunflower oil - 840 tenge.
  12. Beef (shoulder-chest part with bones) - 2350 tenge.
  13. Chicken meat (femur and tibia with adjacent pulp) - 1150 tenge.
  14. Milk (2.5% fat in soft packaging) - 330 tenge.
  15. Kefir (2.5% fat in soft packaging) - 385 tenge.
  16. Butter (unsalted, not less than 72.5% fat, without fillers and vegetable fats) - 3350 tenge.
  17. Chicken egg (category I) - 460 tg.
  18. Edible salt (except "Extra") - 65 tenge.

19. Cottage cheese (5–9% fat content) - 1950 tenge