Arkady Ponomarev: the industry is concerned about falsification and technical regulation issues

Источник: The DairyNews
State Duma Deputy, member of the agrarian Duma Committee Arkady Ponomarev during the All-Russian Congress of producers and processors of milk in Krasnogorsk noted that today the dairy industry is concerned about a number of important issues, including: falsification, monopoly position of trade networks and technical regulation, reports the DairyNews.
At the moment, according to the Deputy, the dairy industry has a positive trend. 

"The support of the industry by the President and the government allowed to reverse the 15-year stagnation. In 2017 the growth of milk production was 3.7 percent. The dairy sector was the first in the number of deals on mergers and enlargement. Domestic producers regained the position among foreign players, such as PepsiCo and Danone, whose market share in early 2000s reached 50% and is now about 18 percent," said Arkady Ponomarev.

Additionally the MP identified the issues of concern to the dairy industry of the Russian Federation.

"The issue of falsification is important. One Agency says that its market share is 3 percent, the other that it is 25 percent. There is also a question regarding technical regulation. If we talk about the purity of the industry, it is worth noting nowhere in Europe dairy and dairy products are in the same legal field, we have these products regulated by the technical regulations "On safety of milk and dairy products". We introduced them (dairy products - ed.) there ourselves and we need to take them out of this field. Another important issue is the monopoly position of trade networks in the market. This will eliminate the potential for the development of the industry. It is necessary to limit the actions of trade networks at the level of antitrust legislation", the Deputy said.

According to Arkady Ponomarev, today, if we proceed from the medical standards for the consumption of milk and dairy products, Russia lacks 30 million tons of milk. "This is a huge reserve for the industry", the expert stressed.

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