This Law here regulates the necessary conditions and manner of conducting trade and trade services, rights and obligations of traders, forms of trade, method of formation and highlighting of prices, trade records, monitoring of trade and markets, consumer protection, prohibition of trade restrictions and temporary trade restriction measures, working hours in trade activities, measures to prohibit unfair trade, supervision and administrative measures, administrative and inspection supervision over the application of this law, as well as other issues of importance for conducting trade in the territory of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Trade shall be conducted freely, in accordance with this Law, good business practices, principles of fair competition and trade rules or customs, in a manner that does not cause harm to other traders, consumers or general interests. Restrictions on the freedom to conduct trade shall be prohibited. Acts of the Federation, canton, city and municipality authorities may not restrict market entry, distort competition, nor may individual traders or consumers be placed in an unequal position on the market. Exceptionally, restrictions on the freedom of trade may be temporarily imposed in the manner and under the conditions prescribed by this Law and special laws. Goods placed on the market must comply with standards, technical regulations, quality standards and/or be marked with a machine-readable label (GTIN identification, QR code, etc.) prescribed or recognized as a condition for their placing on the market or use on the market of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Federation of BiH. The text is divided into thirteen main thematic Chapters and a total of 135 articles. Titles of theses Chapters are as follows: I. Basic provisions; II. Trading and terms for trading; III. Forms of trade; IV. Starting work and trader registration; V. Declaring goods and the method of forming and displaying the price of goods; VI. Trade records; VII. Unfair trade practices; VIII. Consumer protection; IX. Prohibition of market restrictions and temporary measures of market restrictions; X. Trade planning and development; XI. Supervision; XII. Penalty provisions; and XIII. Transitional and final provisions. This Law also partially transposes the following European Union acts into the legislation of the Federation of BiH: 1. Directive 2006/123/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on services in the internal market; 2. Council Recommendation 2001/458/EC of 5 June 2001 on the use of alcohol by young people, in particular children and adolescents. As regards food and foodstuff this text provides several rules as follows: the trader may additionally process or refine food in the outlet, subject to the requirements prescribed by a special regulation, so that it is suitable for use; consumption of food in the outlet is prohibited; the trader may provide a separate, visibly separated area for the consumption of food in the outlet, in accordance with the regulations in the field of catering; a specialty food and non-food store is a store that offers a specialized range of food and non-food products; a factory store is a food and non-food product store that sells its own products directly, at prices lower than average market prices, and is located next to the production facility; a conventional store is a store that offers food and non-food products for everyday consumption. Retail establishments where retail trade is carried out are: a) specialized food and non-food store, b) factory store for food and non-food products, c) classic store, d) mini-market, e) supermarket, f) hypermarket, g) drugstore, h) discount store, i) petrol station and shop at a petrol station, j) gas station, k) boutique, l) kiosk, m) non-specialized store selling predominantly non-food products, such as: department store, outlet, n) second-hand shop, o) warehouse and stockyard.
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