2023-09-17 20:19:01
Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne announced on Saturday that distributors will be authorized to sell gasoline “at a loss” for “a few months”.
The government hopes for a vote on the law allowing distributors to sell gasoline at a loss “during November”, announced the Minister of Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, this Sunday evening on BFMTV. This measure should give them “an additional degree of action”, she clarified.
“The law will be presented in the coming days to the Council of Ministers, then in October to the National Assembly and we hope for a vote on this law in November. This will allow manufacturers to use this additional leverage to lower fuel prices “, explained the minister.
“Go further on punch operations”
Faced with the surge in gasoline at service stations, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne announced on Saturday, in the columns of Le Parisien, that distributors will be authorized to sell gasoline “at a loss” for “a few months “.
In other words, this mechanism allows you to resell a product for less than its purchase price. In theory, this practice has been prohibited since a law of 1963. But there are certain exemptions, in particular for products which “have a marked seasonal character”.
“With this law, we give them an additional degree of possibility of acting, we give them the possibility of going further on the heavy-handed operations that they might carry out to lower the price of fuel,” justified the minister. of the Energy Transition.
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