Program

Issues: According to the Higher School of Economics, the share of the gray market reached 9% or 2.5 trillion rubles in 2015. The markets of spirits, clothing and shoes are in the red zone. According to Rosstat, the turnover of illicit products in 2017 approaches 3 trillion rubles. Such a volume of counterfeit causes enormous damage to the country’s economy, legal business and public health. As a solution to problem, a unified national system of digital labelling and traceability for products is being created in Russia. Minpromtorg of Russia is the project coordinator. The system will increase market transparency and ensure the protection of citizens’ health and legal business.

Moderator:

Ilya Lomakin-Rumyantsev, Head, Center for the development of the consumer market of the Russian Federation, SKOLKOVO Moscow School of Management, Member of the Public Council, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.

Speakers:

Viktor Yevtukhov, State Secretary — Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

Nikita Kuznetsov, Head of the department for development of domestic trade, digital labelling system and legalization of goods trafficking, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

Aleksey Repik, President, All-Russian ‘Delovaya Rossiya’ public organization

Mikhail Dubin, Chairman of the Board, Center for development of advanced technologies

Aleksandr Mironenko, Head of EAEU affairs and trademark protection, Philip Morris International, Russia

Ivan Glushkov, Deputy General Director, STADA CIS

Igor Shekhterman, Executive Director, Х5 Retail Group