The Plenary of the Chamber of Deputies approved, on Tuesday (04), Provisional Measure 838/18, which grants subsidy with resources of the Union to reduce the price of diesel oil road until December 31, 2018, informs the Agência Brasil “. The matter will still be voted by the Senate. According to the text approved by the deputies, the subsidy will be restricted to the diesel of road use (buses, trucks and agricultural machines)
The MP was one of the main demands of the truck drivers, whose strike in late May caused a crisis of supply of fuels and products throughout the country. In his bill of conversion, deputy Arnaldo Jardim (PPS-SP) incorporated the text of MP 847/18, which corrected details of 838/18, such as the restriction of the diesel subsidy for road use (buses, trucks and agricultural machines).
The original version of the first measure allowed the incidence of the economic subsidy also in marine diesel and used in electric power generation and rail transport. The total resources directed to the subsidy will be R $ 9.5 billion and it will be limited to R $ 0.30 per liter of the fuel. It will be the responsibility of the National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP) to establish a reference price (linked to the real price at the refinery) and a sales price for distributors in a regionalized manner.
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Thus, participants in the subsidy program (producers and importers or distributors when importing directly) will receive the difference between the reference price and the marketing price multiplied by the liters sold up to a maximum of R $ 0.30 per liter.
The government’s initiative does not prevent the increase in the price of diesel oil due to the market conditions of the sector (oil value, refined oil and high dollar) – the text only grants a discount paid with federal budget resources to maintain the commitment of a reduction of R $ 0.46 in the pumps of the stations.
With the system, already regulated by decrees 9,403 / 18 and 9,454 / 18, if there is an increase in the reference price, updated daily, the sale price will also increase to maintain a fixed discount of R $ 0.30. Each month, the PIS / Pasep and Cofins amounts, levied on the income from the economic subsidy, calculated in the previous monthly period, will also be added to the reference price. If at the end of the year, there is credit to the Union due to the calculation system, the beneficiaries will have 15 working days to collect the amounts to the government. The text also predicts that if the money for the grant ends before December 31, the grant program will also end.
Stocks
Jardim placed in the text the obligation of the ANP to monitor the diesel oil stocks in the distributors before and after the subsidy, as well as the purchase and sale prices of the product. This monitoring, according to the deputy, is important for eventual compensation to distributors for marketing the diesel at a discount of R $ 0.46, at the request of the government, in order to end the truck drivers’ strike. Distributors should check existing stocks prior to the start of the subsidy (on May 31) and the discount practice as of June 1.
This compensation, however, will come within the total of R $ 9.5 billion. MP 838 determined an economic subsidy of R $ 0.07 per liter of diesel oil from May 30 until June 7 and from R $ 0.30 per liter from June 8 to December 31, 2018. For the text , the agency will disclose a periodic report on the pricing policy for distributing fuels to distributors practiced by market agents based on information that it may request, such as price components and market share levels, including point segmentation of marketing and product.
Habilitation
In order to qualify for the receipt of the economic subsidy, the beneficiary must authorize ANP to obtain its tax information related to the commercialization and importation of diesel oil by road. These data will be only those necessary to determine the amount owed by the Union. The payment of the subsidy will be conditioned to the presentation of a statement by the company in which it is responsible for the accuracy of the information provided. If it fails, it will be subject to the penalties provided for in Law 9,847 / 99, on supervision of fuel supply activities, without prejudice to civil and criminal liabilities.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.