Rural Ministry: mall-stop helps micro-businesses

As we have informed our readers before, the National Assembly has banned the construction of stores, that have an area of more than three hundred square meters, from the 1st of January. The Ministry of Rural Development is convinced that this step is going to help local small businesses, family farms and agriculture-related projects in general.

At the moment, 1 percent of large business-facilities rule the two-thirds of the retail volume, whereas 99 percent of the country consists og micro- and small businesses. The law contains that the existing stores also cannot be expanded to over three hundred square meters, so the decision pertains on pending permissions as well.