Supervised by the Minister of Finance and Dairy Products.
Was the order he issued a premeditated exercise intended to be invalidated in court?
Factors in the milk market will in the coming hours apply to the court to issue an administrative order that will allow the increase in the prices of the milk products under supervision, according to the original outline agreed upon between the Ministry of Finance and the dairies, that is - a 16% increase in the prices of the products under supervision and not just 9% as stated in the order they published Ministers of Finance and Agriculture. If the increase does take effect in full, the price of a carton of milk will be NIS 7.26.
Officials in the dairy industry told Wala that they had no choice but to request the protection of the court, after today at 10:00 a.m. a public hearing was closed for the order published by the ministers of finance and agriculture, according to which the increase tomorrow (May 1) will only be at a rate of 9% and the rest at the beginning of June, after Shavuot.
"They cannot do it unilaterally, in order to issue such an order there are clear rules that must be followed and include the price committee's recommendation and a hearing of at least 4 days. It is impossible to issue an order overnight, without even one working day having passed," said market officials the milk
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Will the controlled products become more expensive tomorrow by 16% or "only" by 9%? (Photo: ShutterStock)
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The same source added: "Right now there is enormous confusion in the chains and dairies about what will happen tomorrow and we will put an end to it."
According to the same source, even the Ministry of Finance does not understand the step taken by Smotrich: we had meetings with the budget department.
They are anxious about the event in which they will have to finance the increase in the price of milk.
They are not prepared in any way to subsidize it.
We told them that the planned increase in price enriches the state coffers and the money it will earn it can direct to subsidize the milk market.
What also
turned out to
our surprise is that the price increase was included in the budget law, in the order of NIS 200 million."
The good will come out and the court will be portrayed as if it prevents him from fighting the cost of living, even though he knows that the step he took is against the law."
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