2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
After a vote in the plenary hall, it became clear that the rules for stricter control over the activities of food chains in our country will not be introduced.
The BSP's proposal was rejected after President Rosen Plevneliev vetoed the bill. After the vote, only 98 of the local deputies supported the new rules for supermarkets.
Most BSP deputies accused the president of protecting retail chains at the expense of Bulgarian producers.
The amendments to the Law on Protection of Competition provided for the large food chains, whose annual turnover is over BGN 50 million, to publish the contracts and general conditions they conclude with suppliers for evaluation by the Commission for Protection against Competition.
Under the bill, retail chains had to limit their fees to manufacturers and suppliers, such as the Birthday fee, the Rack fee, and the New Store opening fee.
The changes were first voted on by the Economic Police and then approved by parliament.
Retailers immediately opposed the new rules, saying they would only raise prices for most goods.
Plevneliev's motives for vetoing the bill were that it was not assessed what the final impact on consumers would be after the introduction of the amendments to the Law on Protection of Competition.
According to the Bulgarian president, nowhere in the BSP's proposal is it stated whether the changes will lead to higher prices for goods.
Plevneliev believes that it is inadmissible not to make a preliminary assessment of how the new regulation will affect citizens and especially those of the most vulnerable groups - the socially disadvantaged, the unemployed and retirees.
The head of state added that he welcomed the initiatives to create new conditions for the development of production, supply and distribution of food products, overcoming vicious trade practices, but this should happen only after an expert assessment of the impact of changes on the end user.
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