Legal Regulation of Trading Activities Using Digital Formats

The relevance of the article is due to the large-scale development of digital commerce, as well as the fact that the purchase and sale of goods and services is one of the locomotives of the economic development of any modern state. Nevertheless, digital trade can, under certain conditions, not only stimulate, but also slow down the economic development of both the country as a whole and its individual regions. The regulatory legal regulation of trade activities is designed to stop the negative consequences of the development of digital commerce and stimulate its positive impact on the domestic economy. Such incentives are especially relevant for achieving Russia’s national development goals in the context of large-scale sanctions pressure. Increasing the effectiveness of this incentive is possible based on the analysis and implementation of relevant foreign experience in Russia. The subject of the study is the experience of regulatory legal regulation of trade using digital trading formats. The purpose of the work is to identify, based on the analysis of the legislation of six foreign countries, its features useful for implementation into Russian legislation. As a result of the research, a list of national features of foreign legislation regulating digital trade that are promising for implementation in Russia has been formed. The paper concludes that it is necessary to maintain a balance between limiting the market power of digital platforms and using their activities as a locomotive for the development of the national economy.

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