Assopetroli-Assoenergia: risk of closure for independents without price cap extension

ROME – "A large part of the distribution network, over 35%, is made up of independent operators who buy from those who currently apply the price cap, and if the cap is not extended to supplies they risk closing. Everyone must be given the opportunity to compete." Thus to LaPresse Sebastiano Gallitelli, general secretary of Assopetroli-Assoenergia, who initially asks for an immediate table with the other operators in the supply chain. And a dialogue with the government, "for the extension of the price cap to other supplies to avoid market distortion".

"We agree with the measures to support the community but they are not enough on their own if they exclude the professional, so-called wholesale sector which supplies transport, agriculture, industry and independent distributors", he explains, and "the risk linked to the price cap, if it is not extended to supplies, is a distortion of competition, which we can only denounce".