The Uruguayan Chamber of Trademarks and Companies (Cumei) communicated its “frontal rejection” of the real estate operators bill that is being studied in the Chamber of Deputiesand which was approved in November of last year by its Constitution, Codes, General Legislation and Administration Commission.
Through a statement, the organization showed its strong opposition to the project that will be voted on on May 7, and they deny that the entire sector has a good perception and shares the parliamentary initiative.
In the letter, they point out that the Chamber companies consider it “very important” that the Parliament regulate the activity, but they oppose doing so ignoring the contributions that were made from Cumei so as not to endanger “the direct source of work for 700 Uruguayan families” and other indirect jobs.
Likewise, they maintain that the bill includes unconstitutional aspects, according to the opinion of the Professor Martín Rissoand that the alternative wordings were not contemplated by the Legislative power.
“We see with great concern that our arguments and contributions have not been considered,” continues the document, which assures that “some sectors seem committed to a corporate regime that limits for the future the entry into it of those who today make up certain associations that bring together a group of already established real estate companies.
“It ignores the reality of a very important part of the Uruguayan real estate market”
According to Cumei, the treatment of the law by Deputies “ignores the reality of a very important part of the Uruguayan real estate market”, since “it does not contemplate in any way” the activity of their companies, “neither their business models, nor the reality of the 700 real estate operators who operate in Uruguay under this modality for more than ten years”.
In this sense, they emphasize that the project does not recognize the figure of the operator who decides not to act under a relationship of dependency, nor does it contemplate agencies, franchises or the use of brands. “Not taking into account these extremely relevant aspects affects the constitutional right to work and carry out lawful activities of all real estate operators who today work under any of these figures.”
Finally, Cumei demands “urgently” that parliamentary consideration be interrupted of the current bill, since they assure that it will only bring “delay” and “damages”, asking, instead, that a dialogue table be set up in which “all actors in the sector” participate.
Source: Ambito
