At the Cabinet meeting on Sunday, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune ordered the Ministry of Internal Trade to prepare a system for capping prices and determining profit margins for vegetables, legumes, pasta, and meat.
President Tebboune directed that this system be prepared, taking into account the production and marketing chains. In addition to ensuring the existence of a decentralized system for daily local monitoring of the prices of widely consumed items.
In addition to coordination between the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Internal Trade, and the High Governorate for Digitization, to create a digital database. It undertakes the task of rapid and effective price control.
The President stressed that the completed database would serve as a notification mechanism. It allows the relevant interests to intervene to restore balance to commodity prices if they rise unusually.
On the other hand, President Tebboune ordered the opening of an investigation into the negative role of some meat importers in monopolizing and raising their prices. And the differences recorded between prices at the state level, and even neighborhoods within the same state.
In addition to preparing a draft legal text, which aims to strictly regulate the activity of sales intermediaries between producers and consumers.
Have a meeting cabinet Following up on the progress of the completion of the two mining railway projects, linking Bilad Al-Hadba and the port of Annaba. And also the mining pier completed within the framework of the expansion of the port of Annaba.
In addition to a presentation on concluding project deals, according to direct negotiation, for the benefit of works to connect the estuary to the new seawater desalination plants in Chlef, Mostaganem, and Tlemcen.
Full statement of the Cabinet meeting:
Today, the President of the Republic, Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and Minister of National Defence, chaired a Council of Ministers meeting, which included presentations on the proposed mechanism for daily monitoring of prices and the availability of basic consumer goods across the national territory, the progress of the completion of the two mining railway projects, linking Bilad Al-Hadba and the port of Annaba and also the mining quay within the framework of the expansion of the port of Annaba, in addition to a third presentation on deals projects according to direct negotiation for the works of linking the estuary to the new seawater desalination plants, in each of the states of Chlef. Mostaganem and Tlemcen.
Regarding the proposed mechanism for daily monitoring of the prices of basic consumer goods and their availability across the national territory: The President of the Republic ordered the following immediate measures to be taken:
- Preparing a draft text to strictly regulate the activity of sales intermediaries, between producers and citizens.
- The Prime Minister is responsible for opening an immediate investigation into the negative role of some importers in monopolizing and raising the prices of imported meat, and at the butchers who market it at local meat prices, and the difference between the prices of imported meat at butchers in different states, and even in neighborhoods.
- The Minister of the Interior, in coordination with the governors of the Republic, was assigned to create a mechanism that allows the purchase of surplus products locally, storing them, and then putting them on the market as soon as the first indicators of a change in prices are recorded, with the aim of preserving the purchasing power of citizens.
- Preparing a system by the Ministry of Internal Trade to cap prices and determine profit margins on vegetables, legumes, pasta, and meat, taking into account the production and marketing chains.
- Establishing a decentralized system in which trade managers, under the responsibility of governors, bear the daily local monitoring of the prices of widely consumed items.
- Doubling the price control teams of the Ministry of Internal Trade with daily and continuous field visits throughout the year.
- Coordination between the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Internal Trade, and the Digitization Governorate to create a digital database for rapid and effective price control that serves as a notification mechanism that allows the relevant departments to intervene to rebalance commodity prices in the event of their unusual rise.
Regarding the progress of the completion of the two mining railway projects linking Bilad Al-Hadba and the port of Annaba, as well as the mining dock within the framework of the expansion of the port of Annaba:
- The President of the Republic stressed that the phosphate dock of the port of Annaba has become a regional and Mediterranean bet that must be won in order to exploit it as soon as possible.
- Immediate launch from Timangset of the Laghouat-Mneaa-In Saleh-Timengset railway project.
Regarding deal projects, according to direct negotiation, for works to connect the estuary to the new seawater desalination plants, in each of the states of Chlef, Mostaganem and Tlemcen:
- It is necessary to ensure, as quickly as possible, the supply of desalinated seawater to the states of Chlef, Mostaganem and Tlemcen, as they are in priority status, provided that the process of expanding delivery to other states takes place, after studying them technically, case by case, to accurately determine their local potential for surface and groundwater, before they benefit from seawater desalination technology.
- The President of the Republic reiterated his emphasis on strict monitoring of the granting of licenses for drilling wells, to protect groundwater.
- He ordered the government to include these two points in the draft agricultural guidance law, which is being prepared and which will be presented to the Council of Ministers designated for the agricultural sector.
