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Commerce calls to define the work agenda of the Price Observatory

Commerce calls to define the work agenda of the Price Observatory

Law 26,992 created in 2014 the Observatory of Prices and Availability of Inputs, Goods and Services as a space chaired by the application authority (the Ministry of Commerce) and made up of a representative of the Cabinet Headquarters as Vice President and others of the Ministries of the Interior, Public Works, Science and Technology, and Economy; Y three of the legally constituted and duly registered user and consumer associations.

Since 2016, the Observatory has not been active and the associations have been requesting the implementation of this tool created according to the law “with the purpose of transparent access to information on prices and availability of inputs, goods and services offered in the territory of the Nation and tend to a greater protection of consumers and users”.

The president of the Association for the Defense of User and Consumer Rights (Adduc), Osvaldo Bassano, told Télam that “the Price Observatory examines products and services from the moment they leave production until they reach the consumer“and remembered that”In 2015 we discovered what the sale of the fruit was like, which still exists today“.

For his part, Claudio Boadapresident of the Union of Users and Consumers, pointed out that “the objective of the observatory is the study of value chains over timeIt is a study that does not have immediacy but it is a medium-term process”.

For this afternoon’s meeting, representatives of the associations of banks of Argentina (ABA), Public and Private (Abapra), and Argentine (Adeba), and that of Specialized Banking (ABE), the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA) and the Argentine Confederation of Medium Enterprises (CAME ).

It was also convened General Confederation of Labor (CGT), the Argentine Chamber of Wholesale Distributors and Self-Services (Cadam), the Chamber of Supermarkets (CAS), the Argentine Federation of Supermarkets and Self-Services (FASA) and the Association of United Supermarkets (ASU).

The Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, advanced in the presentation of Fair Prices that they would analyze the chains of the supplies disseminated in a scheme similar to the one that was made prior to the launch of the 4-month freeze.

Source: Ambito

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