Belarusian entrepreneurs to collect 50K signatures against president's edict

Belarusian self-employed entrepreneurs and vendors will collect 50 thousand signatures. The campaign will kick off on April 11, aiming to abolish the president's decrees No 222 and No 48, reports Radio Svaboda.

The campaign will be carried out by the Committee to Save Entrepreneurship, which was set up on early 2016 on the wave of protests by self-employed entrepreneurs. It is not clear if all the leaders of entrepreneurial movement will back this action.

Aliaksandr Lukashenka's Decree No 222 "On regulating the entrepreneurial activities and sales of goods by enrepreneurs and other physical persons" was signed in May 2014. Decree No 48 "On measures to ensure state's controls (supervision) over the implementation of technical regulation standards" was signed in February 2015. Self-employed entrepreneurs argue it is virtually impossible to meet the requirementrs of the decrees - to get certificates of origin from wholesale markets in Russia or Turkey.