With Resolution 823/2022 published this Friday in the Official Gazette, the Government has formalized the “Fair Prices” program, an agreement with suppliers of consumer goods and supermarkets to freeze the price of 1,500 products for four months. In addition, it sets a monthly increase limit of 4%.
With the signature of the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, the program was regulated, which, in article 3 of the resolution, signs that the prices of they must remain fixed in the months of November and December 2022 and January and February 2023.
At 11 am, the Minister of Economy will formalize the implementation of the new plan which aims to contain inflation in the CCK.
“Taking into account the average prices for the month of October 2022 with an increase of up to 4% for the month of November 2022, up to 4% for the month of December 2022 compared to the average prices for the month of November 2022, up to 4% for the month of January 2023 compared to the average prices of December 2022 and up to 4% for the month of February 2023 compared to the average prices of the month of January 2023, states article 4 of the initiative.
In its article 5, the resolution published this Friday in the Official Gazette, warns him “any restrictions on the number of products on sale per consumer required by companies that have signed agreements under the “Fair Prices” Program. it must be authorized in advance by the Ministry of Commerce.
In addition, Article 17 clarifies that the conditions of sale They can only be changed in exceptional circumstances which justify prior authorization.
From the Ministry of Economy they clarified on Thursday which is not a price freezeyes but of “a voluntary agreement between the state, large consumer companies, wholesalers and supermarkets”.
The new program will include the 453 items of the Care Prices plan, renewed in early October.
The Fair Prices application will be available for mobile phones with Android and iOS systems and a messaging service to be used virtually. After reporting the non-compliance with the program, the inspectors of the Secretariat of Commerce of the Ministry of Economy They will go to the place indicated by the consumer to verify the complaint and draw up the related report..
In addition to filing a complaint, the app It will allow you to scan the barcode of a product and know if it is part of the agreement. And from the app you can see the full list of products included in the plan.
About a hundred companies participate in the agreement, representing 86% of mass consumption in the country and including Molinos, Coca Cola, Unilever, Quilmes, Mastellone, AGD, Ledesma and Las Marías, among others. “In addition, supermarkets will be able to supply own brand products,” it was indicated.
Agreements “it will be replicated with various municipalities throughout the country to strengthen the federal nature of the provision “ and in turn, Commerce has specified that it “will transfer to the corresponding local authority 25% of the proceeds of the fines imposed in each district”, according to the official agency.
To reinforce the idea of putting a stop to the increases, several social organizations, meanwhile, plan to present themselves – today – in front of the United Supermarkets Association and the doors of 20 AMBA supermarkets, to convey their proposal.
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Source: Clarin
