The controversial law recently voted in the Chamber of Deputies, which limits the number of companies on the fuel distribution market, was contested on Friday by USR at the Constitutional Court. At the same time, on the same day, the Association of Distributors of Petroleum Products (ADPP) requested, through an address, the President Klaus Iohannis not to promulgate the respective normative act, requesting, in this sense, a hearing to support and argue its point of view, according to Profit.ro.

Deputies decided on Wednesday to restrict free access to the market of fuel distributors to companies that do not have specialized warehouses. The project was voted by PMP and PSD deputies, the Liberals abstained, and USR voted against, claiming that the project favors a company that “has ties with Russia.” The fight against tax evasion, invoked by the authors of the normative act, mostly MPs of PMP and PSD, seems only a pretext for promoting the law, as long as the payment of excise duties and VAT is made at the exit from the tax warehouse, respectively from refineries, by producers (OMV Petrom, Rompetrol, Lukoil, etc).

According to ADPP, if the law was enacted, “about 900 companies could stop working and thousands of people will lose their jobs in the midst of the economic crisis caused by the effects of the pandemic, affecting the state budget and other budgets, the damage being so large that it is impossible to estimate at this time.”

In addition, the effects of the normative act will be felt negatively in all areas that use fuel – agriculture, transport, construction and many more.