ZAGREB, May 3, 2020 – The associations — a Croatian association of agricultural producers, a national association of cafe and restaurant owners and the Voice of Entrepreneurs — said in their joint press release that ban on Sunday trading would reduce revenues of retailers, small farmers and cafe owners.
The press release issued on Sunday recalls that those businesses have already been hit hard by the corona crisis, and ban on Sunday trading would be additional shock. They ask for regulation of the work on Sunday rather than ban.
Tihomir Jaić of the Croatian association of agricultural producers said that family farms that sell their produce on the farmers’ markets would suffer from that ban on Sunday shopping.
Vedran Jakominić of the above-mentioned association of cafe and restaurant owners said that the ban on Sunday trading was an act of encroaching on the economic and human freedoms, although cafes and restaurants could be nominally open on Sundays.
He said that due to the ban on Sunday work of shopping centres, cafes and restaurants placed in those facilities would not be allowed to work, too.
The Opposition party GLAS on Sunday reiterated its position that the ban on trading on Sunday was only in the interest of the election campaigning of the ruling HDZ party led by Prime Minister Andrej Plenković, while this measure would be to the detriment of small businesses.
Small retail owners and agricultural producers cannot endure that ban now when they do business in restrictive conditions due to the epidemiological situation, sad GLAS.
The temporary ban on Sunday trading has been recommended as an epidemiological measure to curb the COVID-19 spread.
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