On the issue of reducing prices in 1,000 products in supermarkets, but also in the government’s initiatives against accuracy, Development Minister Takis Theodorikakos mentioned, speaking to ERTNews, stressing that: “The goal is basic products for both their diet and nutrition and maintenance and maintenance.

As the minister typically stated: “I would like there to be thousands of codes, to keep forever and to reduce prices in half. But this is not the case. We are giving a constant struggle for our own ability to push things. Let’s look at the broader picture of what’s going on around this issue, an average family, especially here in the Attica Basin, what has been very burdened in the last 5-6 years in absolute numbers but also in growth is the rent.

Bad lies, anyone living in the basin, has eaten an increase of 400, 500, 600, 700 euros depending on what home is.

But talking about an average family living in 100 square meters, a couple who has two children.

Take an example, let’s take an average municipality, Daphne. 6-7 years ago this made around 500 – 550 euros, the rent, today is twice as much.

That is why the Ministry of Development obviously cannot do anything. I want to be clear. The government as a whole is fighting for a massive social home.

Secondly, it restricts Airbnb and thirdly, it supports people living on rent with a rent of a rent every November. Which I consider very serious.

The second problem that has greatly burdened households throughout this period concerns electricity.

It is also not a matter of the Ministry of Development, but the government, and here, usually with the interventions of the prime minister himself, is taking steps to support households.

And the third sector in which we are fighting is related to supermarkets in general I would say retail.
80% are in supermarkets. From there the most people supplies the products for both home maintenance and nutrition.

So we had a pressure strategy on the pressure market on supermarkets all these months, conveying the social demand to contain prices. Of course everyone knows that prices are mainly a matter of supply and demand.

There are no changes with decisions and decrees to get into what you just just asked.
However, we are pushing for specific initiatives and one of them has occurred in the last month and we have an agreement on it.

The large chains have been committed that in the first fortnight of October, two weeks from today, they will reduce prices to at least 1,000 codes. I asked them for the initiative to expand beyond Christmas, beyond the days of the holidays, because I realize that until there they have organized this framework in this initiative, I would like to note that the Association of Greek Food Industries is also a very key role. I have had successive meetings with them and they will also offer the relative reduction rate.

The goal is essential products that include both nutrition and maintenance of the home and individual hygiene, to drop their prices over 5% and as much as possible for as long as possible. At the same time I clarified for everyone and I want to clarify it again by the opportunity to clarify it again, we had agreed with market representatives last year, after 100 days of cooperation and work, a code of ethics to protect the sellers from misleading.

We have agreed on this Code of Conduct, but we are obliged to control it, I emphasize this because there have been some recent fines imposed by DIMEA by law. I explained to them that it is another, another. “

The fines

Speaking about the fines imposed, he said: “I do not know anyone to put a fine to say it was fair. They have absolutely no argument. These arguments are abusive say that the Ministry of Development was licensed. This is a lie.

And yesterday at the meeting with the supermarket spokesman, I said that if there is any written correspondence of the Ministry of Development with the specific chain that allows it to do what after which its TIMEA imposed a fine of 1.4 million, to bring it back to the fine.
The other is very specific. It has exceeded 36 codes the rate of profit it is entitled to by June 30 and has been imposed by the FINIA by the TIMA. But do you know something? No one would discuss this TV now. Not to ERT, anywhere.

If they were for a fine of a few hundred thousand to someone who was a small shop, a small chain.
No one would deal with, here because they are big chains with communication capabilities, all this is done.
I will again want to the people who see us say the law is law and whatever billions of euros and if anyone has a turnover, it will be kept and if the state has been wrong, of course there will be a process of justice to attribute the law.

But here in this case what has been said is not right, it is not the case, the reality is that DIMEA imposed a fine and if the Minister of Development intervened to stop him, he would have made a carbinate breach of duty and would never do it. “

Will increase electronic digital checks

“There are many different markets in a supermarket. Different things, if you talk about food, otherwise if they are things that the supermarket chains themselves produce.

Otherwise if they are supplied from the interior or from the outside, there are a thousand two things.
What I want to know is this. In general all this period, we have had and have and will continue to have cooperation with the market.

The Ministry of Development’s relationship with the market is to support healthy entrepreneurship.
The profit is legitimate, but at the same time we have a great responsibility to adhere to consumer protection legislation and so I have two more good news to give you.

The day before yesterday, I submitted to the Council of Ministers the codification and uniformization in a code of all the legislation on consumer protection, so that things are clear and clear about both the providers of the services and for the citizens themselves who want to protect themselves and want to know what their legislation

And the second, in the next few days, public consultation will begin on the new Independent Consumer Protection Authority and market supervision. A principle that will endow with 300 new auditors.

I believe that the relevant bill will be passed within the next 30 – 40 days. It is so necessary to make public consultation and be voted on by the House. It will then be installed immediately on the basis of the current, commander and three deputy governors to start work. In full force I believe that it will be in full operation within a semester from now. In the meantime, the control mechanisms will continue to work properly, supervised by the Ministry of Development will undertake the market controls.

The key we are interested in in our time is to increase electronic digital controls.
And we do this as much as possible. But to do this, you have to have the corresponding and appropriate potential. So this case is intended.

We will do everything we can to bring people out of the rest of the public and a small, not very large number of recruitments next year, so that the control mechanisms are much stronger than they have existed so far.

My experience has shown that it is extremely useful and absolutely necessary in operation and also with this bill we want to cut a road on the route from the field to the shelf.
We will enable, by upgrading the existing popular markets, which is a piece, we will not tease them, as much as we will upgrade them.

We will allow municipalities, if they wish, in addition to the current lay people, to have lay people only for farmers, only for producers, who can come to sell their products directly to the popular. “

Have been returned, already 80m euros

Commenting on recent polls, Mr. Theodorikakos said: “Wanting to beat corruption should not happen because he sees measurements, but we do it because it is a matter of principle and values ​​for us. And because I don’t like words, I’ll talk to you with the actions.

At the Ministry of Development, when I went, I found that hundreds of millions of euros have gone to companies in the past 20 years, which did not make the investments they owed. And we put a price bet, a promise of honor to the citizens.
That we will take back this money. We chase them one by one. Because you know, many of them exist and in a literal form they are not even digital.

We have received in cooperation so far, we have given AADE and AADE regains this money, 80 million euros.

We will not stop because the number is multiple. So we prove by acts that we are interested in transparency and accountability. And I repeat that we do this because we believe it, because it is our obligation to the Greek society that has honored us with its confidence and not because the polls say it.

Now, with regard to all what you say about the measurements, again I want to insist that the political forces, and especially the government, is responsible for the people to implement its commitments, its plan, its vision and to be judged by citizens when the time comes.

When it comes time to the election, in addition to the government rating, I would say in the government, the comparison is always made and the true dilemmas are set to go to where Greece will go, what needs to be done, what is more right to do. Which Prime Minister can do this?

So I believe that the next one and a half years left until the election, we owe it seriously, with responsibility, with hard work, with modesty and always listening to society, we always have to hear society, whether it is applauding the positives of the government or criticize it,
And personally I am optimistic that the Greek people have a memory, they have a judgment and will evaluate properly when the time comes. ”

For e-katanalotis

He stated that the e-Katanalotis will be modernized and that it is a field of daily criticism of the General Secretariat of Commerce to accelerate this process.

He also reiterated on the issue of fines that “it is not serious to say that I am investing and to think he will do it after 10, 15, 20 years. It was never the meaning of this development law. It is a matter of honor for us to take back all this money to prove that what I said before about transparency and accountability we mean. “