Africa-Press – Cape verde. There are butane gas resellers who are charging higher prices than those set by ARME, outside the law. That entity that regulates the fuel sector even calls on consumers to denounce offenders, taking into account the legitimate defense of consumers.
The Multisectoral Regulatory Agency for the Economy (ARME) advances that it has received, with some frequency, complaints from consumers that some resellers of butane gas bottles have not been complying with the maximum prices set monthly.
In other words, as explained by the agency that regulates the fuel sector, whenever there is a drop in prices caused by the dynamics of the oil product markets, these resellers refuse to sell butane gas bottles at the prices set by ARME.
A recurring situation, as attested, and which has “a lot” harmed the lives of consumers across the country. However, ARME guarantees that, when there is an increase in the price of gas bottles, resellers “normally” comply with the values set by ARME.
Pedagogical actions
Although the agency guarantees that it has carried out various pedagogical awareness actions, both with regulated companies, such as Vivo Energy and ENACOL, and with resellers
(stores, grocery stores and mini-markets), in favor of defending the “legitimate interests and consumer rights”, this practice still continues.
As they contextualize, this fact is “verified, in loco”, by ARME technicians, when they go to commercial establishments for routine inspection actions.
scrupulous compliance
In this sense, ARME warns all resellers to “scrupulously” comply with the prices of butane gas bottles set monthly, under penalty of this practice becoming “an infraction that harms the rights of consumers” and, as such, be framed under the terms of the law.
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