“Although some texts were softened, the bats on business remain and we fear that it will be divided into good and bad and there is a huge danger of blows being inflicted on certain companies”, said the MP from the PP-DB Martin Dimitrov in a comment to the media after the meeting of the parliamentary Committee on Budget and Finance, which adopted the changes to the law on the introduction of the euro on second reading. The committee adopted all amendments to the draft law of the Council of Ministers proposed by the ruling majority and only a few by the opposition.
Dimitrov reminded that the text remains, according to which in the event of a sharp and significant increase in prices (in the government version it was “excessive increase in prices”) the Council of Ministers may impose extraordinary measures. In his words, this means “everything that can cross their mind - from price ceilings, ceilings for mark-ups, even to nationalization”.
According to the MP, among the many bad news from the budget committee, there is also one good one - the adopted, albeit difficult for the majority, idea of “Democratic Bulgaria” for turbo competition. The majority adopted as its own the proposal of the DB that traders announce the prices for each product early every morning on the website of the Consumer Protection Commission. At Dimitrov's explicit insistence, these were recorded as individual, not average prices, with a clear specification of the type and quantity of the product and information on whether the price was regular or promotional. This way, every consumer will be able to choose the best prices for themselves in their locality or throughout the country.
“This is the idea of transparency, of competition, the goal is for the market to be the strong regulator that stops price increases. This is much more valuable than all the naive, I would say communist, regulations on administrative harassment”, said Martin Dimitrov.