An amendment submitted to the Parliament to the bill of the Ministry of Environment and Energy, which concerns, among others, the operation of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission and the new ENFIA property tax, establishes the obligation to submit a stock declaration for 7 agricultural products and food from companies operating in the respective sectors.
In addition, the procedure for submitting the relevant declarations, the penalties imposed and the competent authorities are defined.
The bill is expected to be passed tonight.
The obligation of the declaration will be valid for a period of 3 months, while by decision of the Minister of Rural Development and Food it can be extended for a period of up to 3 additional, each time, months.
In particular, companies operating in the chain of production, import, trade, sale, brokerage, distribution, distribution and storage of agricultural products and food in the Greek Territory, must submit, within 2 days from the publication of this regulation, a declaration with stocks in:
(a) raw materials for the production of fertilizers;
b) fertilizers,
c) animal feed,
(d) raw cereals of all kinds, in particular wheat or rye, rye, barley, oats, maize, edible buckwheat;
(e) flour and in particular wheat or semolina flour and cereal flour;
f) sunflowers, and
(g) vegetable oils, other than olive oil, in particular sunflower oil (sunflower oil), palm oil and maize oil.
Businesses must submit at least the following information:
(a) the quantity of stocks, in kilograms for solids, in liters for liquids and in pieces where appropriate;
b) the country of origin of the products,
(c) the storage location of the stocks and, in particular, the address and postal code;
(d) the contact details of the undertaking and, in particular, the name and distinctive title, registered office, telephone number, e-mail address and, in particular, the contact details of its legal representative.
The statement is submitted electronically through a special link located on the main website of the Ministry of Development and Investment, which is accessible through the Single Digital Portal of Public Administration. The access is made through the passwords of the General Commercial Register of the liable companies or, if they do not exist, through the passwords of the tax bureau “TAXIS” portal.
Failure to submit or submission of an inaccurate declaration entails the cumulative imposition of sanctions as follows:
(a) seizure of the items in question, in so far as they have not been declared or have been declared incorrectly; and
b) administrative fine of 1,000 to 100,000 euros, depending on the gravity of the violation.
It is recalled that similar measures were implemented for several species affected by the pandemic. For example, at the moment, those who participate in the trade of coronavirus diagnostic tests, antiseptics, protection masks are obliged to declare stocks, while in the same regime last Easter, lambs and goats, as well as eggs were included.
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