We are considering merchants getting a discount on fuel if they deliver goods to stores in low population areas.

However, this measure will have a social and not a mass aspect.

This was stated by Minister of Economy Nikola Stoyanov in "Wake Up" on NOVA

Nikola Stoyanov was born in 1976 in Sofia.

Graduated in Law at Sofia University. 

"I couldn't afford to point the finger at someone and say, 'The problem is only here.'

Most likely, the problem is everywhere in the chain, and the combination of these problems from the various links in the chain leads to an unjustified increase in price.

This is how he commented on the inspections carried out in the past weeks for speculative prices in the commercial network.

He also explained the way in which the website of the caretaker government will operate, on which the prices of basic foodstuffs in the country will be compared.

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“On its home page there are icons of 30 products as well as four raw materials.

These are products from the small shopping basket.

There are several filters by which we can see the price - for the whole country, by regions or in other European countries".

According to him, this site provides very good information for users.

For the first time, it brings together information from different institutions.

This was also the goal, since such a tool was missing.

It has been necessary for many years to have a common information system regarding food in Bulgaria, and this is the beginning of its construction.

We do not expect to reduce prices through the site.

Through it we can observe processes and trends.

They are more important - if, on the site, the wholesale price goes down, but the retail price continues to go up - we see that there is a problem in the chain.

The site also has a direct link to KZP and BABH, to which reports can be submitted, explained Stoyanov.

Nikolov also commented on the idea of ​​a markup ceiling.

"For this we need a change in the law.

I assume that the parliament will meet around Easter.

I really hope that this will be on the agenda of the MPs and this will be the first thing they will tackle.

At the beginning, we had an idea to do this through an Ordinance, but experts advised us that this would be legal "on the edge".

That's why we decided to go the safe and correct way, namely through a law", commented the minister.

He explained that the idea is to have a markup ceiling for one to two items in a product group.

Nikola Stoyanov

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