A. Georgiadis: Control over the entire fuel chain

The issue of accuracy has often been at the center of the debate in the Plenary Session of the Consumer Protection Bill.

Earlier, the parliamentary representative of PASOK – Movement for Change, Nadia Giannakopoulou, had called on the Minister of Development to inform the national delegation about the conclusions from the “attack” on Hellenic Petroleum and Motor Oil, Mr. Georgiadis said that a discussion how they price the fuel and they were given the official letter of the service, which gives the relevant deadline to deliver the data, purchase invoices, invoicing method, sales invoices, ie data that are necessary to make the relevant control .

“I do not know what the test will be. The service is done by the service. The test is not done in the morning and the result comes out at noon. The volume of data is huge. When the result of the test comes out, do not have any “There is no doubt that this will be announced. If there is to be a fine, there will be a fine,” said the Minister of Development. the fuel cycle, which says that the profit margin in the fuel cycle that one is selling today can not be greater than the profit margin it had on September 1, 2021. We have started its new, more intensive phase refinery control, to make it clear that the market provision applies to all fuels, from the largest company that is the refineries, to the smallest that is an individual service station “.

The Minister of Development stated, in fact, that yesterday an inspection was started in the first 30 gas stations of the country, with the highest prices, at which the service handed over the relevant documents for sending the data and, most likely on Friday, the first fines are announced at gas stations fuel that had violated the profit margin.

What the state must do, we do everything, said the minister and stressed that they are done with the greatest rigor and with the greatest diligence. “I am proud that the current political leadership of the Ministry of Development has done the most to combat the scandal of any of my predecessors,” said Mr. Georgiadis, who, however, stressed that “today we have the highest price of crude oil in euros, which we have never had in our history “.

“Unfortunately, as long as the war continues and as long as the measures continue, fuel prices will rise,” he said, stressing that this situation affects Europe as a whole.

“So coming to Parliament and showing the Mitsotakis government, as responsible for accuracy, is unfair and unrealistic,” said the Minister of Development, who commented on the proposal of SYRIZA and PASOK for a horizontal reduction in the EFK, saying that the horizontal reduction of the tax will benefit the strongest and hit the weakest. “The country has tight budget margins, we should reduce all taxes horizontally. ‘We do not have infinite money. The little money we have should go mainly to the middle class and the poor. That is why there was no horizontal tax reduction, but “Consumption subsidy based on income”, said Mr. Georgiadis.

Referring to inflation, the minister referred to data for Great Britain, which is at the highest level since 1982, data for Germany, which recorded a decade-long rise in inflation, and for Belgium. “Excuse me, everything that is happening on the planet earth, is it Mitsotakis exactly? We live in the greatest historical phenomenon that humanity has experienced since World War II,” said Mr. Georgiadis, who described the proposals for horizontal tax cuts and increases as unrealistic. in subsidies: “You come and tell us, in the midst of war and crisis to fall off the cliff? And you are serious? Whoever proposes a measure, must be costly. That is to shake the bank in the air for votes? We to pressure the inflation crisis “We have increased the basic salary, reduced the ENFIA, reduced the insurance contributions, reduced the income tax, abolished the solidarity contribution. These are measures that take the burden off our fellow citizens.”

“Mrs. Giannakopoulou”, commented the Minister of Development, “calls on us to reduce the fuel tax horizontally and to build a new EKAS and this PASOK, which has lived in 2010, what happened, what it will say to find the country in the air,” he thinks it’s a good idea. ”

In fact, Mr. Georgiadis said that the people reward Mr. Mitsotakis in the polls because he sees that he has a serious prime minister and added that he would be very happy if, today, opposition MPs also praised the Prime Minister’s speech in the US Congress. “Kyriakos Mitsotakis did not speak yesterday as president of ND, but as prime minister of Greece, he spoke as a representative of Hellenism everywhere”, said ‘Adonis Georgiadis and estimated that “there is no Greek who did not feel proud of what happened yesterday”.

The intermediate discounts

Mr. Georgiadis, who said that the bill is a step forward in support of consumer rights, informed the national delegation that the intermediate discounts will be abolished. “Because we are now in a period of intermediate discounts, we were afraid that there would be a misunderstanding and anomaly in the market and that is why we did not put the abolition in this bill, said Mr. Georgiadis. The intermediate discounts will be abolished. “Intermediate discounts will also remove the 50% limit, which is the maximum allowed, for traders to make offers on their goods. ‘So they will be able to make as many offers as they want, for as many products as they want, all year round”, said Mr. Georgiadis.