Prime minister Marcel Ciolacu announced, on Thursday, that an important step was taken in the problem of „deceptive practices” of reducing the weight of products and maintaining their price, after the National Authority for Consumer Protection (ANPC) chairman made the order in this sense transparent, noting that there will be a control of the Competition Council regarding the „unjustified” increase in the prices of detergents.

„We are already taking an important step in the matter of reducing the weight, but keeping the price, this type of disguised price increase, actually deceiving the customers. The chairman of ANPC has put in decision-making transparency the order that requires processors to clearly signal any change in the weight of products with all the necessary details. This is how we protect, above all, the purchasing power of those with low and medium incomes, the most affected by these deceptive practice,” said Ciolacu, at the beginning of the government meeting.

According to him, another type of „equally necessary” intervention is the one regarding the detergent market, „where there are totally unjustified price increases”, and the Competition Council is going to carry out an inspection.

„In this way, we want to complete the framework of measures to stop price increases started through the price ceiling mechanisms,” said the prime minister.

On Wednesday, prime minister Marcel Ciolacu declared that there is no economic basis for the practices in which products whose quantity has been reduced are sold at the same price.

AGERPRES