The fight against speculation requires strict laws and uncompromising stance in their implementation. What "Progressive Bulgaria" offers us is neither one nor the other.
The government's measures are more of the same as before, if not worse.
This is what the leader of "Unruly Bulgaria" Cornelia Ninova commented on.
Here are the specifics:
1. More of the same:
- - They are extending the deadline for chains to announce prices publicly. They have been doing it until now, but that hasn't stopped the skyrocketing price increases.
- - The chains must show justification for the prices. They have been doing it until now, but that hasn't reduced the prices.
- - They will increase the powers of the CPC and the CPC. Well, they were increased last year. The only effect was that prices doubled.
- - The government will announce a "fair price", but it won't be mandatory. It will be like that, just for information. In stores it will be higher.
2. It's worse with the new registers, in which the incoming goods will be entered at the border. This is shocking incompetence. Impressive ignorance of how the state functions. Hey, haven't you heard of customs?
- * Currently, if a product enters from a third country outside the EU, at the border, the type, tariff number, sender, recipient, kilograms, invoice value and currency are entered into the BIMIS system. With one click, you have all the information. Why do you need a second register? For more paperwork and ladybugs of government services with fat salaries? For more expenses and waste of time?
- * If the product crosses the border with another European country, there is no one to make a register. There is simply no border. Who will enter your goods in a register between Greece, Romania and Bulgaria, for example. Are you canceling Schengen? Are you canceling it by returning customs control?
They used good European practices. But in Europe they implemented other measures: a ceiling on mark-ups, reduced VAT on food, reduced excise duty on fuels, state aid with fertilizers for farmers.
# The measures here are inadequate. The whole thing is for more bureaucracy and racketeering of small and medium-sized businesses. Big business and the oligarchy will get better.
The victims will be small Bulgarian producers and all consumers.
You will see this in a month or two.