The 50% discount on 13 kg bottles is valid from June 1, 2022 and reaches 200,000 vulnerable households.
He Executive power resolved to extend the current 50% subsidy on supergas cylinders of 13 kilograms until April 30, 2025, inclusive; a measure aimed at the most vulnerable households in the country.
In the last few hours, the government issued a decree in which it “urges the National Administration of Fuels, Alcohol and Portland (Ancap) to take the necessary actions so that, in coordination with the packers and distributors, the implementation of the 50% discount on the retail price of refills of 13 kg bottles of “supergas” extending the deadline until April 30, 2025.
According to the official document, the Executive Branch considers it “appropriate to continue implementing the discount” that operates as a subsidy for specific sectors of society and has been in effect since June 1, 2022.
The benefit, which is applied jointly between the Ministry of Social Development (Mides) and the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining (MIEM) With Ancap, reaches 200,000 households that are beneficiaries of the card Uruguay Social, Family Allowances of the Equity Plan, Assistance for the Elderly, Family’s asignations of BPS up to the first rank or beneficiaries of Basket of Services.
Bottles similar to the Brazilian ones will be manufactured
The government continues to work on measures to reduce the smuggling on the country’s borders, now with the supergas cylinders as a specific objective, through new regulations regarding national production.
He MIEM and the Energy and Water Services Regulatory Unit (Ursea) They are working on a solution to the problem of smuggling of supergas cylinders at the border. This situation occurs particularly with Brazil, while families in the northern departments of the country use Brazilian bottles and valves that cannot be sold in Uruguay. For this reason, the government is evaluating a new regulation which allows local companies to package bottles similar to those of the neighbouring country.
“We have found a solution that would involve establishing a differential system for the border that could supply Uruguayan gas in cylinders equal to those sold in Brazil,” said the Undersecretary of Industry, Walter Verri.
In this sense, the solution would be that the four Uruguayan companies authorized to supergas packaging They can do so in containers similar to Brazilian bottles, but only for border areas. Although there are still no specifications on how the control system for compliance with this regulation would be.
Source: Ambito
