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Rules On Trade In The Markets Of Latvia, Fairs, Street Markets And On Excursions

Original Language Title: Noteikumi par tirdzniecību Latvijas tirgos, gadatirgos, ielu tirdzniecības vietās un izbraukumos

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Cabinet of Ministers Regulations No. 201 (No. 30 21 §) rules on trade in the markets of Latvia, fairs, street markets and on excursions are Issued in accordance with the Cabinet of Ministers Act article 14 the machine 3/. General questions 1. Rules are applied in the following terms: 1. market-designated area that has been assigned status of market in which goods are sold. The market is the market in territory of the pavilions, kiosks, other closed sites, stationary trade site, shelter, the trading desks (counter), as with the free market area for trading from vehicles or other specially equipped outlets. Market management companies registered in Latvia (the company);
1.2. trade show-a one-time short-term variety of goods of one to three days of trading that the market area, playground, or other place designated by the local government organized due to the holiday season, the completion of fields (autumn fairs, etc.) or associated with a particular calendar day (Mārtiņdien market, etc.). At the same time with food and non-food goods can organize cultural, sports and other activities;
1.3. the street trade: trade local government specially designated and equipped public places;
4. l. public place-markets, roads (any traffic built area consisting of roadways, sidewalks, the suburbs, the split bar, Island), tunnels, areas, pedestrian subways, railway station, bus station and airport halls, corridors and traffic routes, as well as parks, other specially arranged outdoor rest areas and not leased, not built or otherwise decorated in national or municipal land;
1.5. external trade – trade in food and non-food products, mass action (song and dance festivals, sports and cultural activities, religious holiday);
1.6. the own-produced agricultural products, farmers own agricultural production, also from the same agricultural products produced on the holding of the farmer derived processed products;
1.7. the administration of the market — a market owner, which is the Executive Body set up in accordance with the law "On business" (Republic of Latvia Supreme Council and Government Informant, 1990,42. no; 1991, 27./28.nr.; 1992,22./23.nr.; in 1993, 3/4, 12/13, 18/19, 20/21, 22/23.nr.; Latvian journal, 1994, 29., no. 77; in 1995, 59.177. no; 1996, nr. 64).
2. these rules apply to all markets, for which the assigned market status, regardless of their form of ownership, as well as on external trade fairs, and street trade. In these outlets must be followed by retail and other commercial regulations governing law.
3. The following markets: 3.1. grocery market — a market in which distributes processed and unprocessed agricultural products, manufactured goods, food, flowers, nursery plants, seeds, fish and fish products, meat, wild berries, nuts and mushrooms. Grocery markets can be arranged closed fixed outlets for trade with non-food products, as well as designated places for trade in live birds and animals;
3.2. non-food markets — markets that distributes new and used for non-food items.
4. Trade markets of Latvia is entitled: 4.1. Republic of Latvia registered company (company) (hereafter referred to as "legal persons"), the registration documents as business type is intended for trade;
4.2. individual labour inspectors who, in accordance with the issued patents, registration certificates and special permits (licenses) distributes self-produced goods or resources obtained with a purchased item;
4.3. the citizens of the Republic of Latvia (hereinafter — "natural persons"), which distributes the following goods: 4.3.1. self-produced agricultural products, indicating the authorities or their authorised institutions to issue a certificate for the land use rights;
4.3.2. the law in obtaining fishery products and wild game, presenting the fishing or hunting special permission (licence) or an approved copy thereof;
4.3.3. the wild herbs, berries, mushrooms and nuts according to the law "on forest management and use" (Latvian journal, 1994, no. 41);
4.3.4. use of personal belongings;
4.4. The Republic of Estonia and the Republic of Lithuania citizens who exercise their own grown fruit, berries and vegetables;
4.5. other neighbourhood residents in the border area, which border area of the Republic of Latvia marketed in the same production.
5. market Administration should create favourable conditions for local farmers and fishermen, the town (district, parish) legal and natural persons in the realization of own produced products.
6. power outlets are eligible to trade on legal and physical persons as individual installer that distributes the following: 6.1 the same made of art, applied arts and folklore articles;
6.2. the flowers;
6.3. own grown fruit, vegetables, berries, plants and seedlings, presenting a statement of land use rights;
6.4. the wild herbs, berries, mushrooms and nuts according to the law "On forest management and the use of";
6.5. root beer and beer from tanks (barrels), and ice cream, soft drinks and hot snacks (pies, etc.) of the special equipment, if they comply with the sanitation and hygiene standards;
6.6 books specially arranged fixed locations.
7. Street trading places prohibited to realize any goods other than those referred to in point 6 of these rules, and the municipality shall not be entitled to issue licences to trade in such goods.
8. Trade fairs and itinerant trading places legal and physical persons as individual work with the operator is entitled to realize the food and non-food items in accordance with the procedure laid down in these provisions.
//. Commercial site terms of use (order) markets 9. food commodities markets and grocery markets in the entities and individual workers authorised to be marketed not only in the food goods closed the hospital premises or those premises are furnished in individual markets, using the register electronic cash registers (hereafter referred to as the "cash register").
10. Individual companies if they are not payer of value added tax, and individual workers allowed, without the use of cash registers, to realize the following own produced non-food goods: 10.1. applied arts and crafts products, food products and non-food markets in existing territories and in the open market under the shelters, as well as from vehicles, and in other market places listed by the Administration;
10.2. other non-food items — grocery markets and grocery markets in existing closed trading in fixed locations.
11. the legal persons and individual workers allowed to realize the food or non-food items with a cash register, in the open market in the territories under the shelters, from food products and non-food markets, where there is no fixed sales outlets closed.
12. Natural persons authorized to dispose of used personal items without the use of cash registers, non-food markets in the current open market area or in other market places listed by the administration.
13. the legal persons and individual workers allowed to realize food commodities using cash registers, food commodity markets that market stalls and paviljono created in closed sales in fixed locations outside the market Pavilion.
14. the Only entities allowed to exercise in the case of imported fruits, berries and vegetables, using cash register, grocery markets existing in open market areas, under awnings, from vehicles and closed sales in fixed locations.
15. The Republic of Estonia and the Republic of Lithuania citizens, as with other neighbouring countries, the Republic of Latvia of the frontier-zone residents allowed on presentation of the import declaration, realize own grown fruit, berries and vegetables without the use of cash registers, the border area of the country the food commodity markets in the open market in areas under awnings and from vehicles.
16. Individual workers allowed to realize a self-produced agricultural products without using a cash register.
17. food commodities markets the legal and natural persons and individual workers allowed to realize the agricultural products produced in Latvia in the following places: 17.1. market paviljono;
17.2. in a closed fixed point of sale that is not in the market paviljono;
17.3. market open areas from the stationary tables;
17.4. under awnings.
17.5. from vehicles.
18. Farms and individual companies if they do not have a value added tax payer, allowed to realize a self-produced agricultural products without using a cash register.
19. The entities and individual workers allowed to realize the farms and individual enterprises, agricultural products produced using the cash register.

20. Natural persons authorized to realize the self-produced agricultural products without using a cash register.
21. The right to use the stationary tables under awnings arranged trade places and places to trade from grocery markets existing in open market areas to be allocated in the following order: farmers and fishermen 21.1 holdings, individual companies, individual workers and the natural persons that enforce the same production (goods);
21.2. the individual workers who deal with the product purchased, and the entities;
21.3. The Republic of Estonia and the Republic of Lithuania citizens who exercise their own grown fruit, berries and vegetables;
21.4. another neighbouring frontier zone inhabitants who enforce the own production.
22. The right to use the marketing site that our grocery market paviljono and other closed spaces in fixed (kiosks, yards and elsewhere), to be allocated in the following order: farmers and fishermen 22.1 holdings, individual companies, individual workers and the natural persons acting in the same production (goods), which trade on the territory or in the open market under the shelters is prohibited;
22.2. the individual workers who deal with the product purchased, and the entities.
23. The right to use non-food commodity markets existing in open market areas arranged trade places to be allocated in the following order: 23.1. individual businesses and individual workers, which distributes the same in non-food manufactured goods;
23.2. the natural persons that enforce the use of personal belongings. 24. The right to use non-food market in the territory of the existing closed or stationary separate outlets these spaces to be allocated in the following order: 24.1. legal persons;
24.2. the individual workers who distributes self-fabricated and purchased non-food items.
III. Market organisation and administration responsibilities 25. for trade rights permission to trade the markets, from the territory of the local Government not to receive.
26. the market Administration determines the order in which legal and natural persons to be granted rights to use the outlets (by contract, subscription, "on the day the market fees payable to URu.tml).
27. Point of sale usage rights granted by the administration of the market for a certain period of time.
28. to assign the marketing site (site) rights legal persons or individual workers, trading in purchased goods, market administration requires: 28.1. submit a request in writing to grant marketing site (s);
28.2. submit a notarized copy of the business registration certificate or registration certificate of the individual work, which gives the right to trade with goods purchased;
17.6. to submit to the National Revenue Department tax office certificate for entry into taxpayers ' accounts and on whether the entity has a value added tax payer;
28.4. to present the cash register technical passport, if the use of a cash register is compulsory;
17.7. to present the cash register journal;
28.6. to produce marketable goods assortment, but if will be realized in the food-seller's name and medical book;
28.7. individual companies — to present a limited natural resources (fish, game, berries, plants and other resources) mining permit (license) if required by law;
17.9. to submit a separate type of business requires the special permissions (licenses) notarized copy;
46.8. individual workers — to produce revenue and expense journal.
29. to give the marketing of the place (s) of use, individual workers acting in the same manufactured non-food items and agricultural products, manufactured and natural persons, administration of the market requires: 29.1. to submit a written request to grant marketing site (s);
29.2. submit a copy of the patent or registration certificate (original show) or an authorised institution to issue a certificate for the land use rights and show identity documents;
29.3. to present a limited natural resources (fish, game, berries, plants and other resources) mining permit (license) if required by law.
30. the market administration is responsible for the observance of these rules, in particular the granting of order point of sale and point of sale terms of use (order).
31. the right to use the trade spot markets market Administration supports local farmers and farms, fishermen and fishing farms, legal and natural persons, which distributes self-produced goods or products.
32. the administration of trade equipment market place request register requests to register a receiving order and fixed to the decision on the trade allocation or denial.
33. the market administration equipment legal person — point of sale users — register and report every month, the district's tax office about the taxpayer accounting for existing entities that use the outlets on the market.
34. the market Administration agreed with local authorities on point of sale users — natural persons and individual Installer, trading in purchased goods, — the registry submission municipality.
35. following coordination with the municipal administration of the market determines the market working hours and the number of points of sale. Marketing site working hours determined by the same trader according to market opening hours.
36. Grocery market area in the open or under shelters trade allowed only from a specially arranged fixed tables or from their designated locations.
37. the market closed in paviljono or other fixed facilities where outlets while using more legal or natural persons or the individual Installer, the only trade from specially arranged fixed tables or stands you've created.
38. food commodities markets banned perishable foods (milk and milk products, meat and meat products, fish and fish products URu.tml.), trading, storage and realization of it, if not the sanitation and hygiene standards.
39. Non-food commodity markets banned food trade.
40. the market, provision should be made for the administration of the place of the marketing arrangement so that they could be free to go.
41. the area of point of sale must be sufficient to post items weighing and measuring, deploy and use a cash register, if necessary.
42. the market administration is responsible for trade to happen only in decorated (given) the point of sale. Trade outside the iekārtotaj (specified) trading venues comparable to illegal trade.
43. Trading places (including vehicles, of which organized trade) must be provided with the metrological verification of appropriate weighing or measuring tools.
44. On the weighing and measuring instruments for checking them and use of metrological rules is the responsibility of the person who granted the trade rights of use of the site.
45. the market is entitled to organise the administration of the weighing and measuring features, special clothing and other commercial inventory, as well as the cash register. Rent may be only metrologically checked weighing and measuring instruments and registered in the cash register.
46. the Administration is entitled to market the equipment on the territory of the market and market catering service locations.
47. the market Administration supports public policy, veterinary, sanitary and hygiene requirements and fire regulations in the territory of the market.
48. market is responsible for the administration of these provisions in certain order and that order on the markets within developed and coordinated with the relevant market authorities detailed internal rules.
IV. Fee for commercial location and market services 49. Fee for the use of point of sale market and on market services (equipment rentals, stores, and other services) are determined by the market administration.
50. The fee for the use of identifiable point of sale so as to create favorable conditions for local legal and natural persons the same goods produced and manufactured goods sales in Latvia.
51. Legal and natural persons and individual investigators all the work settlement of commercial space market and the use of market services rendered by market administration only round, which provides a special place for the installation of the settlement.
52. From the legal and natural persons and individual workers cash received for the use of point of sale and on the market, the services provided must be recorded using the cash register, and issue the receipt to the payer.

V. trade body fairs, street trading and itinerant trade locations 53. Street trade allowed only in the point of sale, as determined by the municipality concerned and have got. Trade outside these trading venues, as well as trading in public places without a permit issued by the local Government considered illegal trade.
54. In fixed and temporary (seasonal) outlets, which in our public places, is not comparable to street trading venues, and trade in permitted only through the cash register. Prior rights above trade places of work are assigned to adjacent businesses.
55. This rule 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 and 6.4. goods referred to in point (except for imported flowers) street stall is entitled to dispose of legal and natural persons who have received municipal privileges. The use of a cash register is optional.
56. This provision 6.5. goods referred to in the street stall is entitled to realize the legal persons and individual investigators who work paid municipal fee for trading in public places and received municipal privileges. The street trade in imported flowers and books (6.6) is permitted if used in cash registers.
57. The fair must not be longer than three days.
58. External trade places of mass measures only allowed for the duration of the measures in question.
59. Fairs and itinerant trading places trading allowed from the vehicles and outlets that are furnished to the duration of the measure.
60. Fairs and itinerant trading places banned perishable food products, if not the sanitation and hygiene standards for the storage and disposal of it.
61. Fairs and itinerant sales points depending on the marketable product assortment to be fitted with a metrologically controlled weighing and measuring instruments.
62. Fairs and itinerant farmers markets, farms, fishermen, fishing farms, individual companies, not the payer of value added tax, individual workers and natural persons who own or marketed the resulting production and have received permission, local authorities have the right to trade without using a cash register.
63. Trade fairs and itinerant trading places legal persons and individual Installer, which distributes imported food and non-food items, as well as in Latvia, the industrially produced food and non-food items, is entitled to bargain if the local government allows and paid to the municipalities in a particular trade.
64. The natural persons that rule 63 of the goods referred to in the trade fairs and itinerant trading sites is prohibited.
65. Trade fairs and itinerant trading sites allow to realize a liquor and tobacco products, using cash register, only in accordance with the law on alcoholic beverages and tobacco products.
Vi. the tasks and functions of local trading activity on 66. local organising the operation of the markets: 66.1. Decides on the new market of the usefulness of the municipal administrative territory, as well as the market location and boundaries of the territory;
66.2. market specialization (grocery market or grocery market);
66.3. granted market status;
66.4. charges fees only in accordance with these rules.
67. the market creation and installation work must only be performed in accordance with the approved project, for which the relevant public authority or service written proof that has created the necessary preconditions for sanitation, hygiene and fire safety rules.
68. the market status of Riga, the Riga City Council, granted in the rest of the territory of Latvia, the City Council and Parish Council.
69. The municipality shall be entitled to take a decision on the market status for newly created markets, if fully met all the projects in the works.
70. market in the project must be intended for the following requirements: 70.1. all market open to the territory must be covered with a hard cover;
70.2. open market area and under awnings fixed tables must be provided and specific places in the trade of motor vehicles;
70.3. market closed fixed must be provided outlets for trade in food products that perishable, and trade with non-food goods;
70.4. closed fixed in grocery outlets to create preconditions for the sanitation and hygiene standards of the food storage and distribution of goods that are perishable;
70.5. grocery markets to create the product (production) the health inspection service;
70.6. locked in fixed sales outlets to create prerequisites for the use of the cash register.
71. The municipal administrative territory of their statutory rights and market managers signed agreement (Agreement) are familiar with the market.
72. local organising street trade: 72.1. down the street selling the site, its equipment or empowered to do other organizations;
72.2. establish and collect a fee for street sales outlets (city of Riga-Riga City Council, other cities — the City Council, District Council, natural);
72.3. in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 6 shall authorise the street trade and control of the conditions laid down in the permit are met;
72.4. ensure procedures street stall.
73. The municipality shall be entitled to authorise the marketing of the street: 73.1. to import flowers and books, if you have the cash register;
73.2. This provision 6.5. goods referred to in the subparagraph, if the applicant for a permit shall produce documentary proof that Government duties have been paid on trade in public places.
74. The street layout of point of sale and aesthetic design in cities and other urban places consistent with the architects and the national environmental health centre.
75. local organising fairs and itinerant trade: 75. l. Approves the trade fair venue and time, provided that fair in one place may be up to eight times a year;
75.2. the external trade confirmed time and place, that may not be longer than seven days, but the overall duration of the measures in one place may not exceed 60 days a year;
75.3. after consulting the territorial environmental health center fixed or itinerant trade fair participant application procedures, provided that they must provide information about marketable goods assortment and their origins (self-produced goods, manufactured goods, food produced in Latvia, non-food items, imported food items, imported non-food goods);
75.4. authorise trade fairs and itinerant trading venues, as with controlled conditions;
75.5. establish and collect a fee for commercial location in the municipality organised fairs and itinerant trade;
75.6. determine and collect fees for trading in public places, except in markets where the fee is determined and charged only in accordance with these rules.
76. where a trade show or trade is not an external sponsor of the municipality, this event sponsor shall submit the relevant application to the municipality by municipality and the appearance of a response is issued to the applicant within 15 days.
77. the authorities are entitled to issue permits for trade fairs and itinerant trading places, where the applicant has paid the fee for local trade public and, where appropriate, the limited natural resources come from mining permission (license) the original.
78. the arrangements for fairs and itinerant commerce sites provides the event organizer.
79. The municipality shall provide the national authorities referred to in these provisions, the control and supervision of the following: 79. l. of markets and street layout of point of sale relevant administrative territory;
79.2. the itinerant trade fairs, and other local sankcionētaj trading venue and time.
80. the Authorities should ensure that the provisions laid down in paragraph 87 of the same issued mandatory public access rules.
VII. Municipal taxes on the trade of public places 81. Municipal taxes on trade in public places pays the legal persons and individual investigators who work trading with purchased goods, books and imported flowers, street markets and markets and which are not of value added tax-taxable persons.
82. the payable sold municipal fee for trading in public places — 5% of the sales value.
83. This provision fee referred to in paragraph 82 should be programmed in the cash register. This fee is charged on the market the market administration under a contract which it concluded with the municipality.

84. Solo performers of the work and the legal persons that are not of value added tax-taxable persons, the fee for trading in public places in its contribution to the budget of the municipality in which the person registered. In addition, account is taken of the amount of the fee under this provision to paragraph 87 of the other paid municipal budget.
85. This provision is referred to in paragraph 82 of the fee payable for the corresponding month in the 10th of the following month.
86. The State revenue service develops and approves the methodology upon which the calculation of the provisions referred to in paragraph 82 of the levy and the accounts recording with its calculation.
87. If trade occurs in the territory of another local government, then that rule 82, paragraph a fee payable in accordance with the relevant authorities issued mandatory rules.
88. If the rules referred to in paragraph 82 of the fee has been programmed into the cash register, the municipality does not have the right to charge you an additional fee.
89. The provisions referred to in paragraph 82 of the payment of the fee does not exempt from the payment of sales points.
VIII. the obligations of traders 90. Legal and natural persons and individual workers who use outlets in markets, fairs, street trading and itinerant trade, followed these rules and other legislation governing trade.
91. the legal persons and individual workers, dealing with the purchased product, must be provided to the relevant trading venue in the following document: 91.1. sale items, accompanying documents drawn up in accordance with the requirements of the laws or customs declaration;
91.2. documents which certify goods procedures;
91.3. the natural resources limited authorisation, if it is necessary;
91.4. If food is marketed goods, — medical book seller.
92. The entities to be placed at the point of sale signboard indicating the company name, address, opening hours and the first name and last name of the person who is responsible for trade in the trade.
93. At the point of sale must be in documents certifying the right to use this site.
94. At the point of sale may not be in the documents indicated the goods and the cash register in the amount of money not registered.
95. it is prohibited to put outlets rights other legal or natural person.
IX. Monitoring and control 96. Market, fairs, street trading and marketing activities, external site monitoring and control within their competence: 96.1. market administration;
96.2. the municipal authorised officials;
96.3 State revenue service officials;
59.9. the national police and local police officers;
96.5. National Committee for the monitoring of trade workers;
96.6. officials of the bodies carrying out the specific control (environmental health service, fire protection, environmental protection and other services control).
X. responsibility for this 97. rules of natural persons and legal officials are responsible in accordance with the Latvian Code of administrative offences.
98. For this rule 28, 29, 30, 31., 32, 33 and 34 of the State revenue service of the Chief administration of the market imposed a fine of 1000 lats.
99. the penalty payable within 10 days from the date of receipt of the decision.
100. the appeal does not suspend the decision on the recovery of fines.
101. The cash register to the registered amount of money not considered hidden income and recorded in the cash register.
102. For this rule 90, 91, 92, 93.., 94 and 95 above. non-compliance in the market by controlling the administration of the independent or officials of the institution by the request, reverses the marketing rights to use the site. For point of sale fees collected will not be refunded.
XI. Transition issues 103. By 1 June 1996 the legal persons in accordance with these rules have the right to deal only with the cash register, cash register must be provided. If they have a documentary proof (pay) for the cash register the purchase from Ogotāj, included in the cash register in the register of traders, these legal entities are entitled to trade on the issue of a receipt for the goods sold by the State revenue service. The cash register purchase payment document must be specified in the cash register installation date. Setup time may not exceed two months.
104. individual workers, trading in goods purchased: 104. l. till 30 September 1996, have the right to trade the item sold for revenue service kvītisīValst in the order;
104.2. to 1 October 1996 to have the right to deal only with the cash register, or, if they have a documentary proof (pay) for the acquisition of the cash register dealers, which include cash register dealers register. The cash register purchase payment document must specify the cash register installation date, October 1996. Sold item while not cash register transactions, issue receipts certifying the State revenue service.
105. Until 1 January 1997, the municipalities have the right to cover the individual workers, trading in goods, bought in the cash register acquisition expenses, subject to their social situation and using these needs marketing duties to specific local features.
106. Be declared unenforceable: 106.1. The Cabinet of Ministers of 8 august 1995 No. 256 rules "rules for the markets of Latvia, trade fairs, street markets and on excursions" (Latvian journal, 1995, 129/130, 151 no; 1996, 57 no;)
106.2. The Cabinet of Ministers of 26 September 1995, Regulation No 284 "amendment Cabinet 8 august 1995 Regulation No 256" on trade in the markets of Latvia, fairs, street markets and on excursions "(Latvian journal, 1995, nr. 151);
106.3. Cabinet of Ministers of 28 March 1996, Regulation No 79 "amendments to the Cabinet of Ministers of 8 august 1995 Regulation No 256" on trade in the markets of Latvia, fairs, street markets and on excursions "(Latvia's journal, 1996, nr. 57).
Prime Minister, Minister for education and science, the Deputy Prime Minister M. Finance Minister grīnblats a. g. Kreitus, Riga, 4 June 1996, the