Sunday, February 5 is covered by the trading ban. Will larger stores be open on Sundays in February? We check when the next Sunday without a trade ban falls.
The act gradually introducing a ban on Sunday trading entered into force on March 1, 2018. The regulations provide for a catalog of 32 exemptions. The ban does not apply to, among others: in post offices, pastry shops, ice cream shops, petrol stations, florists, newspaper shops and coffee shops.
Pursuant to the regulations, the ban also does not apply to commercial establishments where trade is conducted personally by an entrepreneur who is a natural person who works in his own name and on his own account.
Trading ban on Sunday 2023
In 2023 – as in 2022 – there are seven trading Sundays. The trade ban has so far not been in force on the last Sunday of January. We will wait a long time for another Sunday like this, because until April 2. This means that in February there will be no Sunday when larger shops and shopping malls will be open.
This year, the trade ban will not apply on the last Sundays of April, June and August, as well as on the Sunday before Easter and on two consecutive Sundays before Christmas (maximum until 2.00 p.m. on Christmas Eve).
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Since February last year, changes in the ban on Sunday trading have been in force, the purpose of which is to tighten the regulations in force so far.
After the entry into force of the amendment, the opening of shops on non-commercial Sundays, which also provide postal services, is possible if the revenues from this activity exceed 40 percent of the total. revenue of the institution. Pursuant to the regulation of the Ministry of Finance, sales records are to be kept separately for each retail outlet, even if a given entrepreneur has several such outlets.
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