Overview
- The Public Services Commission in the Buenos Aires provincial Chamber of Deputies is moving to issue a dictamen to send the proposal to floor debate, potentially before year-end.
- The bill requires petrol companies to notify the enforcement authority 72 hours before raising prices and to post pump signage and publish the change on digital channels 48 hours in advance.
- Noncompliance would carry fines equivalent to 5,000–150,000 liters of nafta súper, estimated at roughly ARS 7.2 million to ARS 215 million at current averages.
- The initiative was introduced by provincial deputy Ayelén Rasquetti after YPF stopped publicly announcing price increases at service stations.
- Fecra and Uipba formally opposed the measure, citing risks of demand spikes and stockouts, operational confusion with current price-display rules, reduced competition, and the impracticality for companies using intraday dynamic pricing.