The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) began to unscheduled on the validity of raising prices for vegetables prices, as well as on chicken eggs and poultry meat among the largest retail chains. This is reported in the Telegram Channel department.
The agency will check manufacturers of chicken eggs and poultry meat including for the subject of possible unreasonable increase in prices, abuse of the dominant position in the market or prohibited agreements or actions of market participants. The FAS also analyzes the pricing and determination of retail prices for chicken eggs in the largest retail chains.
In addition, after receiving information growth information for vegetables, the agency checks their manufacturers for reasonable price increase.
In early March, it was reported that manufacturers included in the Union of Poultry farms agreed to contain rising prices for eggs and poultry meat. In the middle of February, the newspaper Izvestia, with reference to the source on the market, reported that the poultry farms offered to trade networks to increase the prices of poultry meat and eggs by 10 percent. In response, the Ministry of Agriculture assured that the rise in prices for poultry meat and eggs in Russia will remain within the overall food inflation. The authorities did not believe in the possibility of such a development of events, indicating that there are no prerequisites for exacerbation.
March 1 First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov instructed the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) to check the rise in prices. He called on “to quickly check the manufacturers of chicken meat and chicken eggs for the reason for the reasonableness of increasing prices and abuse of the dominant position.”
At the end of January, the head of the Ministry of Industry, Denis Manturov, said that agreements on the stabilization of sugar prices and sunflower oil, which Russian authorities concluded with manufacturers, gave the market to the market, so that for eggs, such an agreement will not need – they have decided not to limit the prices .