Premium
The Pro Consumers Association (APC) is requesting PM Nicolae Ciuca to dismiss Virgil Popescu, the Minister of Energy, because he urged the population to not pay their energy bills, and this type of populist statements creates social chaos, Agerpres reports.
Furthermore, the association is requesting the PM to adopt, through an emergency ordinance, economic measures such as the elimination of the VAT for electricity, gas, firewood, pallets and fuels for the period of February 1, 2022 - June 30, 2022 and the elimination of the cogeneration tax, the green certificate tax, excises and other taxes included in the prices of electricity, gas, firewood, pallets and fuels for the period of February 1, 2020 - June 30, 2022.
Furthermore, the organization is requesting the elimination of the VAT for bread, milk, eggs, meat, cooking oil, fruits and vegetables.
"In the event that the Romanian Government will not apply the measures mentioned above for the period of February 1, 2022 - June 30, 2022, we will contemplate during the spring of this year foreclosures for hundreds of thousands of families and an alarming increase of poverty of the Romanian population," the press release points out.
The Pro Consumers Association (APC) is a public utilities organization, status obtained through Government Decision nr. 1106/2005, with an uninterrupted activity of over 31 years in the field of defending rights and economic interests of consumers (www.apc-romania.ro), member of the European Consumers Organization since 2005, the only organization of consumers in Romania qualified to introduce actions in justice based on Directive nr. 1828/2020 regarding actions in representation for protecting collective interests of consumers.
