The House Chamber approves the decree law which contains the urgent measures for the transparency of fuel prices and introduces, among other things, the obligation to also display the average reference prices.
The text was approved in Montecitorio with 155 votes in favour, 103 against and three abstentions. Now it goes to the Senate. Expires March 15th. The approved text confirms the obligation for petrol stations on roads and motorways to display billboards with the average reference price next to the prices charged. The measure, which has aroused perplexity from the Antitrust and criticisms from Forza Italia, requires in particular the exposure at the distribution plants on the non-motorway network of the regional average price and, at the motorway ones, of the national average price charged on the net. These values are calculated by the Ministry of Enterprise on the basis of communications received from all operators. An app for consulting prices is also envisaged (500 thousand euros are foreseen for the construction for 2023 and 100 thousand euros for 2024. As for the penalties, there are fines between 200 and two thousand euros for the violation of the exposure obligations o weekly price update and a grid of days of suspension of the activity.The decree then strengthens the powers of the Guarantor for price surveillance (the so-called ‘Mister Prices’): he is called, in particular, to draw up a quarterly report on prices to verify and prevent incorrect behavior and will arrange for the convening of the rapid alert Commission for price surveillance, established by the Legislative Decree itself (500,000 euros a year from 2023 to 2025 will support efforts to adapt specialists to the new skills).
Source: Ansa
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