The Undersecretary of Consumer Defense and Commercial Loyalty, which depends on the Ministry of Economy, deregistered three consumer associations after being intimidated to present documentation and not having done so within the current deadline. The measure was taken through Provisions 539, 640 and 641 published this Thursday in the Official Gazette.
In this way, the company was removed from the National Registry of Consumer Associations.: “Argentine Consumers Association for Consumer Defense, Education and Information”, the “Santiago Del Estero Consumer Defense Association – ADECSE” and “Collective Justice Civil Association”.
What documentation was required from consumer associations
According to the documents published in the Official Gazette, it was an inspection operation of consumer associations to verify compliance with the regulations. Each one was asked for the Annual Management Report, which is mandatory. For this reason, the three associations were notified giving them a period of five business days from the notification to comply with the presentation of the Report and complementary documentation corresponding to 2023, under warning to proceed with their removal from the National Registry of Consumer Associations. When this information was not received, the cancellation was made.
The Government repealed 43 price control, supply and procedures regulations
The Ministry of Economy headed by Luis Caputo ordered this Tuesday the repeal of a series of regulations linked to trade “that allowed the State to set prices, intervene in markets and request unnecessary information.
The advance of the deregulation of internal trade was carried out through Resolution 1212/2024 of the Ministry of Economy and Resolutions 433/2024 and 434/2024 of the Secretariat of Industry and Commerce, by which “43 regulations with potential to limit the freedom of citizens,” according to the economic portfolio.
When justifying the decision, Economía explained that the repealed regulations were “not currently used, which, being in force, left open the possibility of being applied to set prices, intervene in private activity and subject citizens to meaningless requirements.”
The eliminated standards covered controls on beef, dairy foods, shops and large supermarkets.
They also established regulations on communication services and pharmacies, and required requests for information from companies and educational institutions.
From the Treasury Palace they detailed that “a rule that “affected the flow of trade and raised the cost of tires.”since “it required redundant procedures to access the tire approval process, which increased the cost of tires” and specified that “obsolete programs that are not aligned with the simplification policies promoted by the Government were also eliminated.”
In the official text, it was argued that “the aforementioned derogations were carried out with the objective of a“linearize the regulation policies of the internal market to a public administration of processes aimed at its simplification”.
Likewise, the document maintained that “the rules that establish agreements and price controls generate distortions in the market and, consequently, are detrimental to the consolidation of an economic system based on free decisions, adopted in an environment of free competition and competition; a “In turn, they do not coincide with the objective of promoting the simplification and debureaucratization of the links between the private sector and the National Public Administration.”
In this context, the portfolio led by Caputo highlighted that “These measures are added to the 107 derogations carried out by the Secretariat of Industry and Commerce of the Ministry of Economy since the beginning of the administration to reduce bureaucratic obstacles and promote free competition.”
In this regard, they recalled that “among the regulations already eliminated to normalize Foreign Trade, there are automatic and non-automatic licenses; the SIRA and the DJCP that generated costs of US$5 million and one million annual sworn declarations”, while “in Along the same lines, to make Domestic Trade more transparent, the control program, Careful Prices, and the SIPRE, an information regime on prices and quantities, among others, were cancelled.
Source: Ambito
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