Through Resolution Resolución 51/2024 of the Secretariat of Commerce published today in the Official Gazette, 69 regulations that hindered commercial relations between citizens and promoted an interventionist role of the State were revoked.

The measure was promoted by the Secretariat of Commerce in conjunction with the Secretariat of Simplification dependent on the Chief of Cabinet of Ministers, whose mission is to participate and collaborate in the design of policies for deregulation, debureaucratization and simplification of procedures and processes in the public sector. Additionally, its mission is to participate in the formulation, evaluation and comprehensive review of regulatory frameworks and processes, especially those that affect the productive sector and investment.

A survey of the regulations was carried out with the objective of deregulating management, simplifying the flow of information from society to the National government, eliminating overlaps and reiterations that were detected in the regulations and promoting the necessary adjustments, based on the repeal of laws, such as those on supply, gondolas and the price observatory.

Among what was achieved by the repeals are the SiFIRE, a system that established the obligation to report labels of new products, and the SIPRE, an information regime for prices and quantities sold of final and intermediate goods established during the previous government.

Both systems generated a waste of human and technological resources for both the State and businesses with information that in the past was used as a tool of pressure on companies to achieve adherence to the programs promoted by the previous administration.

It was also established to repeal complementary regulations to the Gondola and Supply Law, already eliminated, that established its supervision and compliance.

Information regimes of maximum prices, Care Prices, were also revoked, as well as any complementary regulations of the Fair Prices program, since it had ended on December 8, 2023. These tools only served to distort the system of prices, mainly of food and drinks in our country.

Likewise, the repeal of the access program for regional products in large supermarkets was promoted, aiming for these types of policies to be promoted by provincial governments, addressing the challenges of each regional economy, thus helping to promote real federalism.

Within the simplification policies promoted by the Secretariat of Commerce, there were those rules linked to intervention in the information process of fees of private schools and universities, the obligation for meat processing plants to report weekly their prices and quantities sold, and a consumer overindebtedness treatment regime that violated basic aspects of the National Constitution in accordance with what is established in article 42, of users and consumers. These repeals are the result of a first stage of survey, which will be followed by other measures to simplify trade and debureaucratize State management.