The deadline for proposals for the regulation project prices has expired
Manufacturers and processors of agricultural products do not have one opinion on how to regulate the relationships and mark -ups from the farm to the table. The heated debate continued, and by the end of the MMAT was the period within which the branch organizations could have made their own proposals for texts in the bill for the supply chain of agricultural products and food.
The project was presented in mid -March by the Ministry of Agriculture, but this was done through a retelling. It has not been published for public consultation so far and it is not known at the moment and when it will happen.
Manufacturers against processors
So far, it has been seen that manufacturers and processors do not share the same opinion about the reality in which they live. Manufacturers believe that they are pressed on all sides, that the products they produce are imported purposefully instead of buying them and that they do not determine their cost, and their processors impose it. The chairman of the United Bulgarian breeders Boyko Sinapov also spoke in this spirit before Nova TV.
The Ministry of Agriculture: At least 50% Bulgarian food and products in the retail chains
« We are trapped, we are imposed on the price processors. They come and say how much the price of the lambs for Easter will be. We want to avoid it, » he announced. Its estimate is that local manufacturers have nowhere else to be crushed and are already thrown out of the market, and the project offered by the line ministry is a small step towards the manufacturers not to die.
Processors, in turn, point out that long ago local production of milk, butter and meat has failed to satisfy the domestic market, which is why the import of such products is required. In the draft of the Ministry of Agriculture, they rather see the problems that the economists point out – state intervention in the market, which will not lead to anything good.
Yana Ivanova, chairman of the Food and Beverages Association, commented to the same television this morning that the imposition of a rule according to which a 10% mark on the manufacturers announced by the manufacturers can be placed an artificial mechanism. The reason is that the processors cannot know who at the cost to put 10% on it. In principle, the greater cost is lower, the smaller ones are higher.
He pointed out that when there are enough products on the market, the processors will choose to buy imported to avoid the requirements for the over -task of the Bulgarian goods.
According to the business, the ceiling of the wage will create a deficit and can even raise prices
He defined as a problem and the requirement that 50% of the goods in the stores are Bulgarian, and manufacturers insist that they be 80%. The reason is that if the appropriate quantity cannot be provided, then the goods will be missing and its price will rise.
According to processors, the main problem for manufacturers is that they do not combine, which would make their production more efficiently.
The position of the producers, expressed by Boyko Sinapov, is that this chaos, in which the processors do not buy the Bulgarian products first, and when they do not reach them, then to import it nowhere.
And some ministers disagree
Whether the project will see the light of day after attempts at such regulation have failed in the years back, it is yet to be seen. On the one hand, the populist sentiment among the ruling ones is in favor of such a project, on the other, not everyone supports them.
From the position of several branch organizations – both manufacturers and processors sent on Monday to the media, it was revealed that the Minister of Economy Petar Dilov did not believe that there was a crisis in Bulgaria to require the measures described in the project.
The general position, signed by 12 organizations, among which is not the one of Boyko Sinapov, says that all participants in the agro -food chain are important. They do not see the logic in the distribution of percentages guaranteed profit for manufacturers, traders and processors.
They insist on an independent assessment of the impact of this project by the Center for the Evidence Assessment of Legislation, which is a Bulgarian independent non -governmental organization of an expert type.
The letter states that such a final variant of regulation has not been applied anywhere in Europe.
