High and fraud Lead Biodiesel distributors to evaluate the demand for suspension of the mixture in diesel

The managers of the sector see the companies “Posture Plus as” pressure movement “by inspection rather than trying to suspend 15% of biodiesel requirements, to be effective since March

Rio and Brasilia – The large fuel distributors of the country consider asking for the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) temporarily suspend the mandatory mix of Biodiesel Diesel, due to the increase in prices and fraud in the segment.

The theme entered the distribution agenda with the prospect of Increase in Biodiesel mixture at 15% in March (Today the percentage requested is 14%). The price of renewable fuel, based on soy oil, Scaled with wheat quotes at the end of last year. According to Brasilian Petroleum Institute data, the biodiesel liter is today $ 2.20 more expensive than the fossil diesel, in the largest difference from the start of the government of Lula 3.

The dismissal request is assessed by Sindicom, which brings together the vast distribution sector, such as Viber, Raízen, Ipiranga and Shell. This is a reaction, according to the sector, to an increasing number of fraud in the mixture. With the increase in the price of biodiesel, the fear is that the number of places that sell fuel without the compulsory mixture will grow.

Temporary dismissal is an appeal that has already been adopted by ANP when the distributors have said not to deliver the fuel already mixed with Rio Grande do Sul, during the floods of last year.

Behind the scenes, the managers of the sector see the current request more as a “pressure movement” by inspection than for the effective suspension of the mixture.

This is because Biodiesel has enormous support from the agri -food bench in Brazilia, which would make dismissal difficult without buying a struggle with a relevant economic sector.

“We are evaluating all the alternatives to the problem, and this is one of the possible alternatives,” said the executive director of Sindicom Mozart Rodrigues.

The tests performed by the Legal Fuel Institute (ICL), financed by the great distributors of last year, found that the places saw diesel without the adequate mixture. In San Paolo, 175 posts chosen by an ICL sample, 30% was not determined.

In December, the ANP informed the federal prosecutor who will be able to supervise only 9% of the country’s service stations (11 thousand plants) “if there are no new budget cuts”. Limited inspection can aggravate the problem, the sector evaluates.

According to Sindicom, a post that does not add biodiesel and sells fuel to the pump at the same price as the product of a factory that satisfies the standard earns $ 0.27 per liter, much above the profit margin managed in the sector, about R $ 0 , 04 per liter.

The theme of the lack of inspection has also mobilized the leaders of agri -food agro. The parliamentary front of the Biodiesel called a meeting in Brasilia Tuesday 11, to deal with the theme. The idea is that the ANP can have access to invoices with the IRS and state taxes to expand the inspection, which do not occur today.

The deputies also intend to discuss a bill to increase sanctions in case of non -compliance with the mixture and creation of a national operator to monitor the sector.

Source: Terra

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