Exposure of the average price of fuel, as imposed by the new government directives, is useless, according to Giuseppe Balia, national president of Angac (National Association of Autonomous Fuel Managers).
The Sardinian representative of the distributors supports the line of the Antitrust: attention, he claims, must be shifted to the entire price formation process. And the assertion made public should be that of transfer, which is practiced by the giants to the individual owners of the pumps. Thus, it is the thesis, the real "culprits" of the price increases would be identified: the companies.
According to Balia, " the unequal treatment within the same flag and in the same catchment area, the small margin" of profit for the distributors would emerge, in addition to the "illegal penalty suffered by the operator based on compliance with the maximum price entered in the last commercial agreements, which imposes the final price on the operator and limits competition and freedom of enterprise".
According to Balia, "the various illegal contractual forms (contracts and services, joint ventures, etc.), which are improperly used, and inhomogeneous with respect to the loan contract (which is the only one provided for by law), would also come to light" .
At the center of attention would also end up "the evidence of the gain on the price differential between self and served, which the oil companies forfeit in their coffers".
Consumers would have "the possibility of knowing the formation of the price both upstream and downstream and the "platts" quotation, the excise duties, the VAT and the gross margin".
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)
