industry and its branches; transport, telecommunications, trade (home and foreign), tourism: consumers' protection; strategy of development of industries and services; ensuring the resources of raw materials and energy for the national economy; development of small and medium-sized enterprises in industry and services; specific problems of privatization in industry and services, of development of the private sector in these branches; the commodity exchanges for industrial goods and services; investment strategies; quality of industrial goods and of services; standards and brands; protection of investments and of brands; technical progress and technological development; efficiency and competitive capacity of the goods and services on the home and foreign market.