Mr. Trinh Quang Khanh additionally proposed that the drafting company take away some “basic” circumstances in petroleum enterprise to create favorable circumstances for companies. There’s a situation that “petrol station workers” should guarantee laws on fireplace prevention and environmental safety.
On this draft, the Ministry of Business and Commerce additionally proposed that distributors may solely import items from focal enterprises and never purchase items from one another. Beforehand, distribution retailers have been allowed to purchase items from one another. In early 2024, the inspection company concluded that some distribution retailers traded round and made unlawful income.
Mr. Hoang Trung Dung, a distributor, stated that the regulation that distributors will not be allowed to purchase items from one another, however can solely import items from wholesalers as proposed by the Ministry of Business and Commerce, is limiting companies’ enterprise rights. “Beforehand we have been allowed to purchase items from one another, so there was openness in enterprise actions. On this new draft, we will solely import items from wholesalers, right here there are restrictions on the rights of companies”- Mr. Dung stated.
However, Mr. Dung additionally sees that the draft is being in-built a course that “discriminates in opposition to companies” when focal companies import from many sources and purchase from one another however distributors don’t. “This makes it tough for our distributors, like in 2022, when there’s a drawback with the gasoline provide, we won’t name or ask any contacts, so the place will we import items at the moment? “- Mr. Dung requested.
Sharing the identical opinion, Mr. Van Tan Phung, Chairman of the Board of Administrators of Dong Nai Petroleum Firm, additionally stated that not permitting distributors to purchase from one another will not be acceptable. This regulation doesn’t encourage companies to develop, however the reverse. once more, is limiting.
Mr. Phung additionally emphasised that present laws are too favorable to focal companies, giving them too many rights, whereas distributors have restricted rights by not having the ability to purchase merchandise from one another.
Discussing some opinions of companies in regards to the proposal for distributors to purchase items from one another, Mr. Dau Anh Tuan, Deputy Secretary Normal of the Vietnam Confederation of Commerce and Business (VCCI), stated by observations. In accordance with him, the proposal of the Ministry of Business and Commerce could come from the conclusions of the inspection company in regards to the actions of current distributors.