January 28 is the first Sunday this year without a trading ban. This means that large stores and shopping malls will be open.
The law introducing a gradual ban on Sunday trading came into effect on March 1, 2018. In 2024 – similar to 2023 – there will be seven trading Sundays. According to the regulations, the trade ban will not be implemented on the last Sundays of January, April, June and August, the Sunday before Easter, and the subsequent Sundays before Christmas.
This means that the next and first Sunday of the year is January 28th.
Shopping on Sundays in 2024
List of Sundays for trading in 2024:
- January 28,
- 24 marks,
- April 28,
- June 30,
- August 25,
- December 15,
- December 22.
This year, trading will be possible on Christmas Eve (December 24), but only until 2pm at the latest. Christmas Eve in 2024 falls on a Tuesday. The latest amendment to the regulations, which came into effect on December 5 last year, stipulates that every Christmas Eve that falls on a Sunday will be a day subject to a trade ban.
Let us remember that the Law Restricting Trade on Sundays and Holidays provides for a list of 32 exceptions.
The ban does not apply to, among others: in post offices, confectioneries, ice cream shops, liquid fuel stations, flower shops, newsagents or cafes. According to the regulations, the ban also does not apply to commercial establishments in which trade is carried out personally by a businessman who is a natural person and works in his name and for his own account.
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