Government he ordered the repeal -with Resolution 51/2024, published this Monday in the Official Journal- of 69 regulations relating to the Law of Fair Prices, Gondola and Supplieswith the purpose of “reduce bureaucracy, strengthen competition and improve trade.”
“The meaning of these measures is to simplify trade, reduce bureaucracy in state management and prevent both citizens and businesses from wasting time and resources by sending information that has become useless,” said Commerce Secretary Pablo Lavigne, who signed the legislation .
The 69 rules, repealed by resolution 51/2024 published this Monday in the Official Journal, “They have hindered trade relations among citizens and promoted an interventionist role for the State”, indicated the Secretary of Commerce.
The Body notes that “work has been carried out on the census of the legislation of each area of competence with the aim of de-bureaucratising management, simplifying the flow of information from the company to the State, eliminating overlaps and reiterations found in the legislation and in “promoting adaptations necessary, starting with the repeal of laws such as the law on supplies, the law on gondolas and the price observatory”.
Among the results obtained from the exemptions is Sifire, a system which provided for the obligation to provide information labels and tags of new products, and Sipre, an information regime on prices and quantities sold of final and intermediate goods established under the previous government.
“Both systems have generated a waste of human and technological resources for both the State and businesses, with information that in the past was used as a tool to pressure businesses to adhere to the programs promoted by the previous administration,” it reads.
Also propose the repeal of the complementary rules to the Law on gondolas and supplies, already eliminated, which established vigilance and respect.
The information regimes of maximum prices, Care Prices, have also been repealed.as well as the repeal of any complementary law of the Fair Prices program, as it had ended on December 8, 2023.
According to the Secretariat “These tools only served to distort the pricing systemmainly food and drink in our country.”
Similarly, the repeal of the program for access of regional products to large-scale distribution was promoted, with the aim “that this type of policy is promoted by provincial governments, addressing the challenges of each regional economy, thus contributing to promoting a true federalism”.
As part of the simplification policies promoted by the Ministry of Commerce, the rules related to interventions in the fee information process for privately operated colleges and universities.
Likewise, the obligation for refrigerators to report weekly prices and quantities sold was repealed, and a regime for dealing with consumer over-indebtedness “which violated fundamental aspects of the national Constitution in accordance with the provisions of Article 42, of users and consumers”.
These repeals are the result of an initial phase of investigation, which will be followed by other measures, we read.
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Source: Clarin