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Law No. 19 Of December 16, 1971 * Republished Regarding The Prices And Tariffs

Original Language Title:  LEGE nr. 19 din 16 decembrie 1971 *** Republicată cu privire la regimul preţurilor şi tarifelor

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LEGE No. 19 of 16 December 1971 *** on the price and tariff arrangements
ISSUER GREAT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
Published in OFFICIAL BULLETIN NO. 3 of 12 January 1977



Republication under the art. IV of Decree of the State Council no. 392 392 of 2 December 1976 ,, published in B. Of. nr. 104 of December 4, 1976, giving the articles a new numbering and replacing, according to art. II of the said decree, the term "cost price" with the term "costs". + Chapter 1 General provisions + Article 1 In the Socialist Republic Romania prices and tariffs must reflect the social costs of production, take into account the use value of products and contribute to the achievement of the party's policy and the state of development at pace high national economy and continuous growth of labour productivity, systematic cost reduction, rational valorisation of material and labour resources, promotion of technical progress, improvement of product quality and growth the standard of living of all people. The state establishes the price policy, organizes and pursues its application and ensures the control of the legality and strengthening of the price discipline + Article 2 The price system in the national economy includes the following price categories: a) prices of producers, who return to industrial units, construction-assembly works, agricultural works, as well as other producers; b) delivery prices, at which the products run between the socialist units, with the exceptions provided for in other legal provisions; c) retail prices, for the disposal of products and the execution of construction works to the population; d) tariffs for services rendered to socialist units and to the population. The content of each price category, the way of establishment and modification, the price and tariff application regime, as well as the tasks of the central bodies, local bodies, state units, cooperatives and other public organizations, are those provided for in this Law. The assimilation of the price categories in force with those provided for in this Article shall be made according to the Annex + Article 3 In accordance with the requirements of economic and social policy, as well as according to the conditions of production and sale, prices and tariffs provided for in art. 2 may be: --fixed, which shall apply to the level at which they were established; -limit, which is a maximum level that cannot be exceeded and where lower prices can be established or practice; in certain cases minimum price limits will also be able to be established. Fixed or limit prices and charges may be unique or differentiated. The single prices and tariffs apply throughout the country, all the producing and selling socialist organs and units for the main products and for the services of great importance for the national economy and the standard of living of population. Differentiated prices and tariffs are set at a different level depending on areas, counties, production basins or localities. Fixed or limit prices and tariffs can also be differentiated by seasons, by producers, by destinations or categories of beneficiaries. Prices and tariffs provided in art. 2 2 may be established for a limited period of time, after which they cease their validity. + Article 4 Price categories and tariffs provided for in art. 2 of this law shall be established with regard to the following: -the pre-paid costs, which include all the normal expenses necessary for the execution of the product or the provision of the service -the benefit, which contributes to the provision of enlarged reproduction, as well as to the co-interest of economic units and the collective of working people to fulfill and exceed all the indicators of the plan. The above elements shall be added, as appropriate: -the tax on the movement of goods or other procurement to the state budget, depending on the economic and financial policy of the state; -commercial rebate (addition), intended to cover expenses for the disposal of goods and to ensure a benefit to commercial organizations. + Chapter 2 Costs-the basis of pricing + Article 5 On the basis of the establishment of any price category, the costs shall bear the following items of expenditure: a) raw materials and materials; b) fuels, energy, water; c) retribution and contributions on retribution; d) depreciation of fixed funds; e) expenses for the introduction of new technique; f) interest and other money expenses. These cost elements adapt to the specificity of each branch. For the purposes of calculating, analysing and controlling costs on products, the production and sales expenses referred to in lett. a)-f) above shall be planned, shall be highlighted and reported on articles of calculation and shall be grouped into direct expenditure and indirect expenditure (directing). When pricing, the calculation of these expenses is based on the consumer rules for raw materials, materials, fuel and energy, labour standards, depreciation rules for fixed funds, as well as financial rules. In order to continuously decrease production expenses, ministries, other central bodies, local bodies, as well as manufacturing socialist units, are obliged to take measures to reduce consumer norms, depending on improving the technology, the organisation of production and work and the modernisation of production. These rules will be reviewed with the drawing up of the plan and whenever necessary during its performance. Raw materials and materials, fuel and energy-from several sources of supply and for which prices are differentiated according to suppliers-are taken into account at the weighted average price. The manufacturing units are obliged to aim for the supply to be made at the nearest supplier. In determining the costs of the predecessor, it is forbidden to take into account the expenses determined by the rejects, fines, penalties and other non-productive expenses. The losses in the rebutts may be considered in the pre-specified costs only in exceptional cases, when they are technologically unavoidable-within the limits set out in the manufacturing licences or in the documentation and rules. approved legal-, and the deducts of raw materials, materials and finished products, within the limits of the normed rates of technological, transport and storage losses. The fund for the introduction of the new technique is determined by applying the planned costs of percentage quotas established according to the law Ministries, other central bodies and local bodies will systematically control the formation and use of the fund for the introduction of new technique, aiming at its most rational and efficient use. + Article 6 At the basis of the establishment of the single prices, the average costs at branch level, the pre-chosen ones, are determined by taking into account the production costs of all the units that produce the same products. For products to which single prices are established, they shall be determined on the basis of the pre-determined costs of the manufacturing units subordinated to the body or organisation setting the prices. The pricing will be preceded, in all cases, by the critical cost analysis on each producer unit-aiming at optimizing production, maximizing internal reserves and mirroring the necessary real expenses, economically justified, for the manufacture of various products-as well as the verification of product quality documentation. + Article 7 The higher costs, determined by the unreasonable distribution between units of the manufacture of a product, as well as any other unjustified expenses resulting from the defective organization of production and labor, will not be considered when establishing prices. The costs of the products manufactured in the manufacturing units or the newly established sections will be taken into account-until the projected parameters are reached-at the level provided for in the approved technical-economic documentation. + Article 8 It is forbidden to create reserves-in any form-in the pre-culled costs. It is also forbidden to take into account the additional expenses determined by the use of higher quality raw materials and materials and highly qualified work forces that are necessary for the execution of normal of the product, as well as expenses incurred for the removal of manufacturing defects, with the exception of expenses for the execution of warranty obligations, within the limits of the approved norms Deviations from these provisions are sanctioned according to the law. + Chapter 3 Basic rules for the establishment and application of industrial production prices + Article 9 The ministries, the other central bodies, the local bodies, as well as the manufacturing units, are obliged to take measures for the continuous decrease of costs, so that the delivery prices of the means of production can be reduced gradually industrial, contributing to the systematic decline of production expenditures in all branches of the national economy, to the reduction of the cost of investments and to the increase of export efficiency + Article 10 The industrial means of production shall be established: a) production prices, which ensure the manufacturing units working under normal conditions of endowment, organization and management, recovery of costs and a benefit; b) delivery prices, which are usually at the level of production prices; in the cases provided by law the delivery prices include, outside the production prices, the tax on the movement of goods and other procurement to the state budget. The means of production opened by the retail network shall be at prices determined in accordance with the provisions of the head. V on "Basic rules for the establishment and application of prices for consumer goods". + Article 11 The prices of the means of production shall be determined on the basis of the costs determined II of this law. + Section I Determination of benefit + Article 12 The level of benefit by branches and sub-sectors is calculated by considering the achievement of increased returns in the final processing branches and lower returns in the primary and intermediate branches. The benefit thus determined constitutes a main source for the enlarged reproduction in line with the development policy of the national economy. + Article 13 The benefit determined according to art. 12 12 relate to the total costs of the respective branch or sub-branch, thus achieving the average return rate, which is established according to the law. In the case of branches and sub-branches to which the expenses for raw materials and materials have a high share in costs, the benefit can be determined in relation to the processing expenses. With the rates of average return on branches and subs, their maximum limits are also set. + Article 14 The rate of return on products can be differentiated according to the requirements of the economic policy and the correlation needs, ensuring that the total of each branch and underarms the average rate of return. + Article 15 Ministries, other central bodies, local bodies, as well as manufacturing units, are obliged to systematically examine the level of costs and to take measures to reduce them continuously, thus ensuring increased profitability and cheaper production. + Section II Prices of industrial production means + Article 16 In determining the level of production and delivery prices of industrial production means, the necessary correlations between the prices of different products to express the ratios between the use values of the to them, embodied in the technical-functional characteristics, durability, aesthetic, comfort and other such characteristics, considering the production costs, the benefit and, as the case may be, the tax on the movement of goods. + Article 17 Prices established according to the provisions of art. 16 will have to ensure the following economic policy requirements: a) stimulating the introduction of new products, of a high technical level and with increased efficiency, in which a higher return can be taken into account than that of products that meet similar needs. With the pricing of the main products in this category, the time limits for production price reduction proposals, as well as the indicative amount of these reductions, are specified. When establishing these deadlines, account will be taken, mainly, of the normal service life of fixed funds, the provisions of the technical plan as well as the size of the period in which the types or categories of similar products are morally used world. For the same purpose, the profitability of the obsolete products will be reduced, so that the manufacturing units are interested in replacing them with modern ones and with increased efficiency; b) stimulating the recovery of natural resources, necessary for the development of the national economy even in situations where exploitation and their use are made under heavier conditions, while ensuring a minimum of necessary efficiency; c) stimulation of production and consumption of production means manufactured in the country; d) the most rational use of raw materials and materials, as well as fuels that can be destined for a higher value, establishing prices that lead to their saving and the stimulation of the use of substitutes. In order to stimulate the use of replacement materials and waste, lower prices will be set for them under conditions of equal efficiency for beneficiaries. In exceptional cases, prices will be at the most at the level of the replaced deficient ones; e) stimulating cooperation and specialization in production, by establishing and periodically reducing the prices of parts, subassemblies and assemblies delivered within the cooperation, so that the decrease in costs of products manufactured by the units It should also be reflected in the prices of finished products, ensuring that the units provide a stimulating return; f) the orientation of the manufacturing units to increase the quality of production by differentiating prices on qualities and ensuring higher benefits for higher quality products; g) the co-interest of local producers, state and cooperative units, for the valorization of local resources of raw materials and materials; h) stimulation of the production of spare parts in quantities corresponding to the needs of the national economy, as well as their use rationally, for which purpose the prices of the spare parts are determined so that the manufacturing units are ensure a benefit that will interest them in the manufacture of those products; the sum of the prices of the component parts will have to be higher than the price of the machine or machine. + Article 18 For the extension of the production of means of production intended for vans, in so far as they cannot be purchased from other domestic suppliers under more economic conditions, prices will be determined on the basis of the costs achieved and of a benefit Appropriate. In situations in which prices-for domestic production or for import-higher than those resulting according to the provisions of the previous paragraph, the prices in force can be applied. + Article 19 In cases where in some products the criteria provided for in art. 17 lead to the need to establish prices that include a significantly higher profitability than the average on the branch or brine, delivery prices will also be set, by including the tax on the movement of goods or other sampling the state budget. + Article 20 The new products and assortments to be executed and put into circulation must present substantial improvements, constitute a real enrichment of the existing product range, corresponding to the requirements of the national economy and ensure a increased efficiency. The assessment of efficiency will mainly take into account that the price resulting from the correlation will ensure that the beneficiaries-to a useful effect-are less than or at the same level as those determined by the use of existing similar products, and the manufacturing units, the realization of a stimulating and-after-tax benefit, according to the legal norms. If the new product does not ensure the efficiency provided for in the preceding paragraph, the manufacture of the product and the establishment of that price shall be prohibited. category and pricing where their production is justified by the major needs of the national economy. + Article 21 The pricing is based on the rules of this law, in compliance with the following conditions: a) for new products, which have an equal or higher use value than those existing, intended for their replacement, prices shall be determined within the limits of the prices of the products replaced. The prices of aggregates and sub-assemblies that reproduce without technological, functional or dimensional changes will not be able to exceed the prices of previously manufactured aggregates and similar subassemblies; b) for new products intended for the extension of the assortment, prices shall be determined in relation to the prices in force for the products of the group or subgroup to which the new product belongs, without being able to exceed the highest price of the group or subgroup in question, considered as limited. In cases where it is necessary to manufacture new products with use values far superior to existing ones and which justify a price exceeding the limits determined according to the provisions of lett. a) and b), the respective prices will be determined by the competent bodies according to this law. The provisions of this Article shall not apply to products which are delivered for export. + Article 22 For making the most of natural resources and production capacities, as well as for the rationalization of imports, in situations where certain products-due to natural exploitation or manufacturing conditions-occur by some units at higher costs, the Council of Ministers may approve the establishment and application of prices to ensure a benefit for each unit, on the basis of which the settlements with the tutelary body will be carried out. The weighted average price resulting from the preceding paragraph shall be at the level of the single production price established, to which the deliveries are made. + Article 23 For means of production manufactured in small series or executed on an occasional basis, prices may be set at a higher level than those for large or mass series products, taking into account the additional costs required. production and sale of these products. If the manufacture of products with a small series character is converted into mass or mass production, the prices will be reduced accordingly, as they move to such production. + Article 24 Production and delivery prices for products of a unique nature, as well as those for occasional orders, intended for investment, capital repairs or production, which exceed the value limits that will be determined according to the present laws, they will recalculate on the basis of postcalculation. If the actual price realized will be lower or higher than the one established on the basis of pre-alculation, the price will be modified and the difference will be regularized with the beneficiary no later than 30 days from the date of the postcalculation. + Article 25 In exceptional cases where due to new production technologies cannot be expected to determine production expenses or where pricing cannot be done by comparison with other products, prices may be established with the agreement. the beneficiary, on the basis of postcalculation. + Article 26 With the pricing, delivery conditions are also stated. For domestic production the delivery condition is "franco manufacturer", "franco warehouse supplier", "franco wagon charging station" or other similar franco conditions. Suppliers and beneficiaries may agree, by contract, that the delivery of goods should be made in other conditions of franco, with the settlement of legal expenses against the condition of franco provided for in the normative act of pricing. If it is necessary for the means of production to be delivered through the supply and outlet organizations, the legal quota of addition will be applied at the established prices. + Article 27 Ministries, other central bodies and local bodies of the state administration, industrial plants and other units with central status, as well as central bodies and cooperative organizations and other public organizations, will elaborate, edit and diffuse catalogues, including product names, technical characteristics, prices and delivery condition. These catalogues will be completed at least once a year and periodically adapted according to the diversification and modernization of the production or the modification of the prices approved according to the law. + Section III Ceiling prices + Article 28 For machinery, machinery, installations, technology lines and component aggregates of serial or single-line technology lines, ministries, other central producing bodies, as well as executive committees of the councils The county and the city of Bucharest, will establish or propose according to the legal competences the ceiling prices, with the completion of the study of assimilation of these products and before the start of their manufacture. The ceiling prices will be determined by correlation with the prices of similar products, taking into account the efficiency of the new product both at the producer and the beneficiary, as well as the external prices, and will be endorsed by the beneficiary. The ceiling prices thus set will be communicated to the beneficiaries and the interested design units. + Article 29 It is prohibited to carry out any expenses determined by works prior to the introduction of new machinery, machinery, installations, technological lines and component aggregates of technological lines, before the establishment of ceiling prices, with the exception of those financed from the fund for the new technique. + Article 30 The ceiling prices represent the maximum level that cannot be exceeded when setting production and fixed delivery prices. + Article 31 If the production and delivery prices are to be determined under the conditions of art. 25, the ceiling prices provided in art. 28, will be established on the basis of the predecessor drawn up after an estimated study. For the products referred to in the preceding paragraph with the establishment of the ceiling price, the launch in manufacturing, as well as the period in which the proposal is to be made for the establishment of production and fixed delivery prices, which will not could exceed 45 days after the end of manufacture. + Article 32 The design units are obliged to include in the technical-economic studies of investments the machines, machinery, installations, technological lines and aggregates components of the technological lines that have equal delivery prices established, with these prices, also indicating their legal basis. For those that do not have legally established delivery prices will include the ceiling prices established according to the provisions of art. 28. Beneficiaries verify and respond to the accuracy of these prices. + Article 33 Designers and beneficiaries are obliged to include in the projects of investment works in the first place the appropriated machinery whose efficiency has been verified in production and exploitation. + Article 34 Manufacturers of machines, machinery, installations, technological lines and components of technological lines are obliged to improve their performance within the legal prices. If important changes are made to the characteristics of the appropriated machinery, justified by perfecting the technology and increasing the efficiency of the beneficiary, which require higher costs and lead to higher prices approved, will proceed according to the legal provisions on the modification of prices. Manufacturers will not switch to product modification until after approval of the new price. + Chapter 4 Basic rules for the establishment and application of agricultural prices + Article 35 The prices of agricultural producers are: a) production prices, for deliveries made by the state agricultural units to the central fund; b) contracting prices, which apply to products sold to the state on the basis of contracts concluded between state organizations or acquirer cooperatives and agricultural production cooperatives, their members or individual producers. In order to stimulate the growth of agricultural production, improve its quality and capitalize on increased quantities on the basis of contracts, price increases and other contractual advantages can be granted, according to legal provisions; c) purchase prices, which apply for the quantities sold, outside the contracts, by agricultural production cooperatives, their members and individual producers if, according to the contractual clauses, for the respective quantities they do not apply contracting prices; purchase prices also apply to products for which no prices are established according to lit. b) above. State and cooperative organizations, purchasers, selling agricultural products at delivery prices. + Article 36 The costs of plant and animal agricultural products, obtained by state agricultural units, are determined according to the head provisions. II of this law, taking into account the expenses specific to this branch, such as those for seeds, fertilizers and forage, for the performance of mechanization works, the payment of tariffs for irrigation, as well as other specific expenses, performed under normal conditions of organization, endowment and production. + Article 37 The evidence of the costs of agricultural products will gradually extend to all cooperative agricultural organizations, taking into account the provisions of the previous article, as well as the elements specific to the cooperative sector. + Article 38 The prices of agricultural products shall be determined with regard to: a) increased production, especially those products that are particularly interested in the national economy, population consumption and export; b) improving the quality and sorting of products; c) the possibilities for sale according to the application; d) the realization of the centralized fund under the conditions and quantities provided for in e) expenses incurred by the State for direct and indirect financing of agriculture; f) ensuring proper correlations between the prices of plant and animal products, between the prices of products within these groups and, in particular, between the prices of plant products grown in the same production areas; g) optimal exploitation of the land fund; h) specialization and development of agricultural production in favorable areas; i) correlations with the prices of industrial products intended for the technical-material supply of agriculture, as well as the consumption of the j) the level of retail prices for consumer goods resulting from the processing of agricultural raw materials. + Article 39 With the establishment of production, contracting, purchase or delivery prices of agricultural products, the delivery conditions to which the price refers shall be stated. For the processing of agricultural products to the centralized fund of the state the delivery condition is "franco destination", "franco producer" or other similar conditions. Contracts may also provide for other conditions of franco than those for which the prices have been established, with the settlement of the related expenses. If agricultural products are delivered in other quality conditions than those established, the price is recalculated according to their actual quality, according to the law. + Section I Prices of products delivered by state agricultural units + Article 40 The production prices of vegetable and animal agricultural products, delivered by the state agricultural units to the central fund, comprise-besides the average costs per country or by area-and a benefit determined under the conditions provided for in the head. III Section I of this Law. For other destinations, the prices thus established add, according to the law, the tax on the movement of goods. + Article 41 In the case of plant products, of particular importance for the consumption of the population or for export, which is cultivated on large areas with much differentiated fertility, to which some state agricultural units realize higher costs, settlement the respective products with the tutelary organ can be done at the planned costs of the units and a minimum benefit. The weighted average price resulting from the preceding paragraph shall be at the level of the single production price established, to which the deliveries are made. + Article 42 In order to stimulate and highlight the contribution of each state agricultural unit and their subunits to the reduction of production expenses, agricultural products are delivered between state agricultural units and subunits at production prices. legally established. + Section II Prices of products delivered by cooperative organisations, their members and individual producers + Article 43 The contracting and acquisition prices of agricultural cooperative organizations, their members and individual producers shall be established uniquely by country or differentiated by area, on the basis of the production expenses required under normal conditions of production, so as to ensure their recovery and the realization of a certain benefit. In some situations, the differentiation of prices can be done by providing bonuses on areas at the single price per country established. On the basis of agricultural product prices will be considered the normal productions made, those planned for the next periods, as well as the decrease in costs compared to the achievements of recent years, corresponding to the increase of production in consistent with the development of technical-material basis + Article 44 The purchase of agricultural products by state and cooperative organizations from agricultural production cooperatives, their members and individual producers is made on economic principles-by agreement of the parties-to the prices entered in contract or in procurement documents. State organizations and purchasers have the obligation to comply with the prices established according to the legal provisions. + Section III Prices of products delivered by state and cooperative purchasers + Article 45 The delivery prices for agricultural products sold by the state organizations or acquiring cooperatives are established on the basis of production prices, contracting and acquisition prices, normal purchase expenses, conditioning, storage, silage and sale, of the planned benefit and-as the case may be-of the tax on the movement of goods or other levies to the state budget. + Article 46 The delivery prices of agricultural products taken by the prestate units of payment services in kind shall be set at a level equivalent to the normal costs of the supplies and a benefit to ensure the profitability of the units work under normal conditions of organization of production and work. + Chapter 5 Basic rules for the establishment and application of prices for consumer goods + Article 47 For consumer, food and non-food goods, production prices and retail prices are established. Delivery prices are deducted from retail prices, with the exceptions provided by law. + Article 48 Consumer goods and other products intended for the supply of the population shall be at retail prices. The same prices apply to sales through the retail network to state units, cooperatives and other public organizations. + Article 49 The production prices for industrial consumption goods are determined on the basis of costs and benefit according to the provisions of the head. II and III Section I of this Act. + Article 50 Retail prices include: -the production price; -the tax on the movement of goods or other budget levies; -commercial rebate (addition). Retail prices for agricultural products not subject to industrialisation shall be established or formed on the basis of the delivery prices of the acquiring organisations, plus, where appropriate, the movement of goods and the rebate ((commercial addition). In cases where the state units and the craft and consumer cooperatives, producing, are authorized to sell the products directly to the population, through outlets they organize, they will be able to practice lower prices, in the limit of retail prices established for those products, provided that it does not affect the achievement of the economic and financial indicators on that establishment. For products that have unique retail prices, the manufacturing units will apply these prices. The commercial rebate (addition) collected by the manufacturing units shall be used according to the legal provisions + Article 51 In determining retail prices, it will be aimed to ensure the necessary correlations between the prices of different products to express the ratios between the use values, embodied in their technical-functional characteristics, durability, aesthetic, comfort and other such characteristics, while also taking into account the following criteria: a) to consumer products, retail prices will include a benefit and-as the case may be-a tax on the movement of goods, allowing the application of affordable prices for all categories of consumers. For products exclusively for children, retail prices will be able to include tax on the movement of goods lower than that included in the prices of similar products for adults, or even they will be able to be exempt from tax; b) to small series products, with character of novelty, individual and luxury order will be established prices corresponding to raw materials, materials, workmanship and superior presentation of products and will include benefits and tax on the circulation of larger goods, in accordance with the possibilities of production and sale. As the production of these consumer goods turns into mass or mass production, prices will be reduced accordingly; c) products of the categories referred to in point a) and b) above, to which the internal standards or norms provide for more qualities, the prices thus differentiate the manufacturing units to be simulated in the realization of the higher quality production. In cases where, on a temporary basis, retail prices cannot be differentiated on the qualities provided for in internal standards or norms, the manufacturing units will grant to the beneficiary organizations price bonuses or to budget penalties. for lower qualities, according to the rules of the State Price Committee; d) in the framework of the task of broadening the range of prepackaged products will be aimed at the proximity of retail prices to the products prepackaged by the prices of the same products sold in bulk; for this purpose, the most commercially indicated, depending on the category to which the prepackaged product belongs and the pre-packaging expenses will be reduced; commercial rebates for pre-packaged products will usually be set at a lower level than in bulk products, the difference returning to the manufacturing units for coating pre-packaging expenses and the achievement of an appropriate benefit. + Article 52 In order to ensure appropriate proportions between the categories of products provided for in art. 51 and for the performance of the tasks of diversification and modernization of consumer goods within the planned price level: a) the annual state plans will nominate the main consumer goods by groups of products, products or assortments, as the case may be, in proportion corresponding to the needs of the lower income population. The manufacturing units and trade organizations are obliged to produce, deliver and take over these goods as a matter of priority; b) based on the study of the consumption demand of the population, in the elaboration and realization of the plan will ensure a structure on the assortment of the production and sale of consumer goods in accordance with the evolution of the purchasing power of all categories of consumers. To this end, average prices for groups and subgroups of products with important weight in population consumption will be approved with the annual plans. + Article 53 The manufacturing units have the obligation to raise the quality of existing consumer goods, within the prices in force. Removing existing products and assortments or diminishing their quantities in accordance with market requirements and needs, with the exception of those nominated in the single national economic-social development plan, can be done only with the agreement of major beneficiary organisations. The new products and assortments to be executed and put into circulation must constitute a diversification and renewal of the range of products existing in the economic circuit, in accordance with the requirements of the population. It is forbidden to set higher prices for new products and assortments that differ from those existing only through minimal changes, which do not increase the use value for consumers. + Article 54 The establishment of retail prices for new types of consumer goods, intended to broaden the range of assortments located in the commercial circuit or to replace some assortments under the conditions provided for in the previous article, will be made within the limit retail prices determined according to the rules laid down in art. 21 21 of this law. + Article 55 With the pricing it also specifies the delivery conditions, which apply to the delivery of consumer goods to commercial organizations. The delivery of products from producers to commercial organizations is made in the condition of "francho manufacturer". In cases where the nature of the products requires it, and in particular to perishable foodstuffs, the condition of delivery may be "franco destination". Suppliers and beneficiaries may agree, by contract, that the delivery of consumer goods should be made under other conditions of franco, with the settlement of legal expenses against the condition of franco provided for in the normative act of pricing. + Article 56 At the disposal of products by food establishments, retail prices shall be applied, established as such or formed on the basis of additions, which must ensure: a) the coverage of the supply expenses with the products used as raw material, for the preparation of finished products, the service of consumers, as well as the expenses of directing; b) the realization of the beneficiary and the established legal tax. + Article 57 Retail prices that apply in public nutrition are determined according to the comfort category of the units, as well as in relation to the degree of preparation of products that are opened through food establishments. For units in the upper categories, at retail prices, determined according to art. 50, add the draw and, as the case may be, service fee, according to legal provisions. Ministries, other central bodies and local bodies, which subordinate food establishments, are obliged to provide a proportion of these units, corresponding to the structure of consumer incomes. The classification of food establishments by category is made with the agreement of the executive committees of the county folk commissions and the city of Bucharest, as the case may be. + Article 58 For fixed menus, dishes and other products served within the canteens-restaurant operating under state units, cooperatives and other public organizations, prices are established according to the law. + Article 59 The change in retail prices can only be done in compliance with the plan provisions on the real incomes of the population. Retail prices may be reduced definitively or in limited time, to some seasonal goods in stock in the commercial network, in view of becoming unfashionable or outdated goods, as well as other goods which can no longer be opened at the initially established prices, with a view to the resulting private use + Article 60 The producer units and commercial organizations that prepackages consumer goods are obliged to ensure the stamping, printing or labelling of the legal retail price and, as the case may be, of the warranty term. Commercial units have the duty to display visible at the place of sale the prices on each product, and when it is not possible, the display will be made through price lists. + Chapter 6 Basic rules for the establishment and application of commercial rebates (additions) + Article 61 The commercial rebate (addition) is intended to cover the normal expenses for the sale of goods and to ensure a benefit to wholesale and retail trade organizations. It is established by presidential decree, on products and groups of products, as the case may be, being included in their retail price. + Article 62 In the case of products that are delivered through the supply and sale organizations, a quota of addition will be applied at the prices of production or their delivery to ensure the coverage of the normal expenses of these organizations and a benefit Appropriate. + Article 63 Commercial rebates (additions), additions for public nutrition, as well as those of supply and outlet organizations, are established as maximum limits, within which lower rates can be practiced without affecting indicators. economic and financial planning on the organization. + Article 64 Commercial organizations are obliged to take measures to reduce the level of traffic expenses on the basis of improving the commercial activity, given the permanent improvement of the population and economic units. to increase efficiency in the use of material, labour and money means available to them and to capitalize on existing internal reserves in the sphere of goods circulation. + Chapter 7 Basic rules for the establishment and application of tariffs on services + Article 65 The tariffs represent the price category that is established and applied in the field of services performed both between economic units and between them and the population. Ministries, other central bodies, local bodies and economic units are obliged to establish tariffs based on normal expenses necessary to carry out services, so that they stimulate the widening of the network of serving units, developing and diversifying the range of services for all categories of beneficiaries and first of all for the population, as well as improving the quality and increasing the operativeness in performing services. + Article 66 The money and in-kind tariffs for the services carried out by the state and cooperative units shall be established on the basis of the following elements determined according to the provisions of this law: a) the costs, excluding the value of the materials which are subject to the processing and the spare parts to be mounted; if the beneficiary brings the ancillary materials, their consideration shall be deducted; b) the benefit and, where applicable, c) the tax on the movement of goods or other procurement to the state budget. The materials that are subject to processing, as well as the spare parts that are mounted, will be settled separately, at production or delivery prices, as the case may be-for services executed to socialist units-and at retail prices, for those executed population. For the materials settled to the population at retail prices, the commercial rebate collected by the prestate unit is used according to the legal provisions. + Article 67 The following shall also be taken into account when setting the tariffs: a) the establishment, at the services of general use, which have a particular role for the national economy or occupy an important place in the expenditure of the population, of a benefit and, as the case may be, of a tax allowing the application of affordable rates for all categories of beneficiaries; b) ensuring appropriate correlations between the tariffs of the like services or which may be mutually replaced; c) ensuring an appropriate ratio between the level of money tariffs or in the nature and economic effects obtained by the beneficiaries of the services; d) inclusion, at services for the population, in the category of luxury, of higher benefits and taxes; e) level of execution, comfort, complexity of works; f) the frequency of benefits and its influence on costs; g) expenses occasioned by the provision of services at the premises (domicile) of beneficiaries, as a matter of urgency or in other special conditions In these cases, tariffs can be set at a higher level or additions to the tariffs in force. + Article 68 Setting tariffs for new services will be done in compliance with the rules provided in art. 21 21 of this law. + Article 69 Ministries, other central bodies and local bodies that have subordinated units of services classified by category are obliged to provide a proportion between them, corresponding to the structure of population incomes. The classification of the prestate units by category is made with the agreement of the executive committees of the county folk councils and the city of Bucharest, as the case + Article 70 For services rendered to socialist organizations through population serving units, the rates set for the population are applied. + Article 71 For new services introduced, which cannot be determined in anticipation of costs, temporary tariffs can be set. Exceptionally, for new services executed to socialist units, to which it is not possible to determine with anticipation of costs, tariffs can be established, with the agreement of the beneficiary, on the basis of postcalculation. + Article 72 With the setting of the tariffs, the conditions under which the service, operations and ancillary materials included in the respective tariffs shall be specified. + Article 73 The prestate organizations are obliged to ensure the display of tariffs at visible places in all the units in which the performances are executed. If the display of tariffs is not possible, tariff lists or other forms of bringing to the attention of the tariffs charged will be ensured. Overvaluation of expenses by taking into account exaggerated norms, the inclusion of materials with higher prices than real ones or the performance of services through the use of quality materials inferior to those envisaged in the establishment tariffs, the inclusion of works that do not run and the classification of works or units in categories superior to real ones, are sanctioned according to the law. + Chapter 8 Basic rules for the establishment and application of prices of exported and imported products + Article 74 When establishing prices for products intended for export or imported, central bodies, local bodies, as well as economic units, are obliged to take into account that these prices contribute to increasing the competitiveness of Romanian goods on the external market and the achievement of a high currency contribution, the rationalization of imports and the assurance of an economic efficiency of the entire foreign trade activity. + Section I Export prices + Article 75 When setting prices for products mainly intended for export, they will be considered-in addition to the provisions of art. 16 and 17 of the present law-and the corelations of existing prices on the foreign market. + Article 76 For products that are delivered for export under the conditions of quality and packaging provided for in domestic standards or norms, the production prices of industrial products or the delivery of agricultural products in force apply, with the exceptions provided by law. In order to stimulate the production and increase of export to products or groups of products for which the national economy is particularly interested, export premiums may be granted above the prices provided for in the preceding paragraph. + Article 77 For the means of production and consumption goods intended for export, with qualitative characteristics or forms of presentation different from those for which there are established prices and which require additional production expenses, shall be establish production prices corresponding to these quality conditions and forms of presentation. On products intended for export, to which, compared to the conditions laid down in internal standards or rules, some operations are carried out for finishing, special conditionings, small-value constructive improvements and other such operations which do not change the technical or qualitative basic characteristics of the product, special export expenses are established. + Article 78 Establishment of production prices and granting of special export expenses, under the conditions shown in art. 77, will be made only if the additional expenses incurred are recovered by the external prices obtained, so that at least the economic efficiency that is carried out is ensured at the export of the same products, for which no such expenses. These prices cannot be practiced internally except in compliance with the provisions of art. 21 21 of this law. + Section II Import prices + Article 79 In raw materials, materials, assemblies, subassemblies, sets of industrial equipment and parts intended for production, maintenance and repair, which come exclusively from import, ministries and other central bodies shall determine fixed prices on the occasion of the first import, by transforming into lei, according to the legal provisions, the external prices of the Socialist Republic of Romania. In the event of the application of this provision, it is apparent from the prices previously established on similar products, the same bodies will determine, with the agreement of the State Committee for Prices, prices by correlation. + Article 80 In raw materials and production materials, which will be imported in addition to domestic resources and which do not have established legal prices being imported for the first time, prices will be established by correlation with similar products that have established legal prices. In the case of raw materials and materials for which there are conditions for widening production on the basis of the more intense use of existing domestic resources and production capacities or which may develop, prices will thus be determined to boost domestic production and streamline import. For raw materials and materials with high import weight, single, determined delivery prices as a rule, as a weighted average between the import price and the production price of the indigenous product, are established. + Article 81 The machines, machinery, assemblies, subassemblies, installations and spare parts, intended for investments, will be settled by the conversion into lei, according to the legal provisions, of the external prices of the Socialist Republic Romania, plus the customs duty calculated according to the law. + Article 82 For imported goods, retail prices shall be determined according to the category of imported goods, as follows: a) for consumer products, retail prices are established by correlation with the prices in force for similar products in domestic production; b) for restricted and luxury consumer products, retail prices will be established by converting foreign prices into lei, according to the legal provisions. The list of these products shall be established by the Ministry of Internal Trade or by the other coordinating bodies of the dissolution, together with the ministries and other central producing bodies, with the agreement of the State Committee on Prices. + Article 83 The determination of the prices of the import products shall be made in compliance with the price limits determined according to the rules 21 21 of this law. Exceptions are the prices that are established by converting foreign prices into lei, according to the legal provisions. + Article 84 In cases where they are established, according to the law, customs duties, they are added to import prices or are included in retail prices, as the case may be. + Chapter 9 Basic rules for the establishment and application of construction prices + Article 85 Producer prices for construction-assembly works are: a) prices on construction objects; b) prices on parts of objects, on physical units and for use; c) deviz prices. + Article 86 In order to cheapen construction-assembly and construction repair works, design and construction-assembly units, ministries, other central bodies and local bodies will take measures to adopt constructive solutions. economic, the shortening of execution deadlines, the revision of consumer, labor and machine use norms based on the improvement of technology, the introduction of new building materials and installations, the higher organization of work on construction sites. + Article 87 The construction-assembly activity will gradually introduce prices on objects, parts of objects, on physical and use units, differentiated by types. These prices are borderline prices, where investment beneficiaries, design and construction units, in agreement, can apply lower prices. + Article 88 The limit prices for objects, parts of objects and physical units and use shall be submitted for approval by presidential decree by the Central Institute for Research, Design and Construction Directives, based on the proposals of the Ministries, the other central and local organs, which have construction-assembly activity. These prices are determined on the basis of critical analysis of material expenses, workmanship, use of machinery and other direct and indirect expenses, resulting from the research of a number of representative works, as well as the reduction of these expenditure by mobilising all existing reserves. At the costs thus determined will be added normal expenses for the introduction of new technique, as well as the benefit of construction units, according to the law. + Article 89 For unique construction objects and works of special complexity or with a special specific, for which no limit prices can be set, as well as for repair works on construction, you can set deviz prices on items of works. They can be unique when determined on the basis of norms of republican deviation or differentiated according to the specific, local deviz norms. The prices of deviz on works items are established on the basis of the norms of consumption of materials, labor and use of machinery, as well as prices and tariffs established according to the law. Deviz prices on works items can also be used for other construction-assembly works, transiently, until the limit prices are set. + Article 90 The limit prices and the prices of deviz on works items can be modified periodically, taking into account the technical and organizational progress in the construction-assembly branch, as well as the changes in the elements taken into account. + Article 91 The Ministry of Industrial Construction, the other central bodies and local bodies coordinating construction units will develop, edit and disseminate the limit and deviz price catalogues. These catalogues will be supplemented and adapted periodically according to the diversification and modernization of construction-assembly production. + Chapter 10 Tasks related to the establishment and modification of prices and tariffs + Article 92 In order to ensure a unit policy in the field of prices and tariffs, the powers of establishment and modification shall be delimited by law, according to the powers of each central, local body or economic units, as well as in relation to the importance of products and services for the national economy and the standard of living of The duties are delimited by this law. A. State Council + Article 93 State Council: a) decide on the general level of prices and tariffs; b) approve regulations relating to the price and tariffs regime, as well as changes to this regime B. President of Socialist Republic of Romania + Article 94 The presidential decree is approved: a) maximum prices and tariffs limits to the main groups and subgroups of products and services, as well as to construction objects, parts of objects and physical units of use; b) prices and tariffs on products and services important for the national economy and the standard of living of the population, modification of these prices and tariffs; c) retrenchment of prices and tariffs for products and services; d) changes in prices and tariffs that are unique in the country; e) increases in retail prices and tariffs for services rendered to the population, from the competence of the Council of Ministers, ministries and other bodies provided for in Articles 97, 103 and 113. The presidential decree establishes the nomenclature encompassing the groups, subgroups, products, construction objects, parts of objects and physical units of use, as well as the services for which the prices are established according to par. 1 lit. a), b) and c). In the same nomenclature will be established the groups and subgroups of products and services for which the Council of Ministers and the bodies provided in art. 97, 103 and 113 will set prices and tariffs on assortments and services within the maximum limits established according to the provisions of par. 1 lit. a). C. Council of Ministers + Article 95 The Council of Ministers has the following tasks: a) organize the application throughout the economy of the pricing and tariffs policy; b) establishes prices and tariffs for the assortments belonging to the groups and subgroups of products and services included in the nomenclature approved by presidential decree, which were given to him in competence; c) sets maximum price limits of manufacturers, delivery and retail prices, as well as maximum rates of tariffs for groups and subgroups of products and services constituting the nomenclature of ministries, other central bodies and executive committees of the county folk councils and the city of Bucharest; d) approve the prices and tariffs for the products and services in the competence of the ministries and other central bodies and executive committees of the county folk councils and of the city of Bucharest-except for those provided in art. 94 and 101-if these prices and tariffs exceed the limits determined according to the rules provided in art. 21 21 of this Law; e) approves the way of establishment, modification and application of prices-according to the present law-for specific situations, as well as the price and tariffs regime for products and services with payment in foreign currency; f) approves the discounts of prices and tariffs, which are not unique, for the products and services in the competence of ministries or other central bodies of the state administration, executive committees of the county folk councils and of the municipality Bucharest or industrial plants and other state socialist units with central status, if the respective reductions affect the economic and financial indicators in the state plan and budget; g) approves the price increases and tariffs on all products and services, as well as of the deviz prices, from the competence of the bodies and units provided in lett. f), except for those provided in art. 94 lit. b), d) and e). D. Ministries and other central bodies of the state administration + Article 96 The State Committee on Prices has the following main tasks: a) constantly controls and pursues, at ministries, other central organs, local bodies and economic units, how the pricing policy applies and informs periodically and whenever the State Council and the Council of Ministers; b) presents to the President of the Socialist Republic of Romania and the Council of Ministers proposals on the establishment and modification of prices and tariffs and endorses such proposals prepared by ministries, other central bodies or committees executive of popular councils, products and services whose prices and tariffs are approved by presidential decree or by the Council of Ministers; c) gives the agreement to the establishment of prices and tariffs for the assortments belonging to the groups and subgroups of products and services of the nomenclature established by presidential decree and whose prices and tariffs are established by the ministries, the other central organs and local bodies; also gives the agreement on prices and tariffs for products and services in the competence of ministries, other central organs and local bodies, if products and services become important for the national economy and the standard of living of the population, as well as the correction of to these organs of established erroneous prices and tariffs, ordering, as the case may be, the payment to the budget of the amounts wrongly collected, as a result of these errors; d) give the agreement on the prices of new products provided for in the technical-economic studies of investments that are approved by the Council of Ministers; e) elaborates, on the basis and in order to execute the law, norms in the field of prices and tariffs, as well as scales and normative of calculation; gives the agreement on the scales and calculation norms elaborated by the ministries, the other central bodies and the bodies local; f) analyze, together with the ministries, the other central and local bodies, the influence of prices and tariffs on the dynamics and diversification of production, the normal circulation of goods, consumption, the increase in the efficiency of economic activity and the standard of living of the population, taking or proposing-according to their legal duties-the appropriate measures; g) collaborate with the Central Statistics Directorate and other central bodies in determining the price indices; h) prepares together with the ministries and other central bodies, as well as with local bodies, studies and proposals on the improvement of the system, level and correlation of prices and tariffs and elaborates, in collaboration with these bodies, the draft plan, as well as long-term forecasts of the dynamics of prices and tariffs; i) collaborates with the other central bodies in the preparation of the cost plan, the determination of consumer norms and indicators on living standards; it also collaborates with the Ministry of Finance in the pricing issues related to the achievement of state budget revenues. + Article 97 The collective management bodies of the ministries and other central bodies of the state administration establish, for the products and services that were given to them in the competence by the nomenclature approved by presidential decree, as well as for those Not included in this nomenclature: a) prices of producers and delivery prices for products manufactured, purchased or imported, as well as tariffs for services rendered by subordinate units; b) retail prices for products manufactured or imported by units of republican interest, which are opened by commercial organizations in the sectors they coordinate or that are exclusively opened by economic organizations in subordinate; also the central coordinating bodies of the undoing of the goods establish retail prices and some products with higher share in the consumption of the population, manufactured by units of local interest, as well as the units of the cooperation craft and consumption, according to the nomenclature developed by these bodies with the agreement The State Committee on Prices; c) prices for products purchased by subordinate units from state agricultural units, agricultural cooperative organizations, their members, craftsmen or other individual producers; for agricultural products, the pricing of deal with the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry; d) ceiling rates, within which the subordinate units have the right to agree, on the actual tariffs, with the agricultural cooperative organizations, their members or with the private craftsmen who provide the respective services. + Article 98 The Ministry of Interior Trade, with the agreement of the Ministry of Technical-Materials Supply and Management Control of Fixed Funds and Ministries producing consumer goods, sets delivery prices that apply to circulation reusable packaging that is used to transport goods between consumer goods and commercial enterprises. + Article 99 The prices of deviz on works articles, which are based on republican deviz norms, shall be established by the collective management bodies of the Ministry of Industrial Construction or the Committee for the Problems of the People's Councils (as the case may be), at the proposal of ministries, other central and local bodies, with activity in the construction-assembly branch. The prices of deviz on works items, determined on the basis of local deviz norms, shall be established by common agreement by the design, processing units, construction-assembly and beneficiaries. + Article 100 For the more important products and services, specified with the agreement of the State Committee on Prices, prices and tariffs set by the ministries and other central bodies of the main state administration, importer, They are unique and apply to all organs, state units, craft and consumer cooperation, as well as other public organizations, with the exceptions provided by law. Retail prices that are established by the Ministry of Interior or other central bodies of the state administration, coordinators of the sale of goods, are unique, with the exceptions provided by law. + Article 101 The collective governing bodies of ministries and other central bodies of the state administration may delegate industrial plants, central-status units and other directly subordinated units, as well as commercial organizations. coordinated, the competence to set prices and tariffs on some products and services, while setting maximum price limits and tariffs by groups and subgroups of products. The clarification of these products and services is done with the agreement of the State Price Committee. The management bodies referred to in the preceding paragraph shall approve the prices and tariffs for the products and services left in the competence of the units and organizations set out above, if these prices and tariffs exceed the limits the rules provided in art. 21 21 of this law. + Article 102 The collective management bodies of the ministries and other central bodies of the state administration can modify the prices and tariffs within their competence-except for those provided in art. 94 lit. b), d) and e) and art. 95 lit. f) and g)-and can correct the ones they have erroneously set. E. Local bodies of the state administration + Article 103 The executive committees of the county folk councils and the city of Bucharest establish, for the products and services that were given to them in the competence through the nomenclature approved by presidential decree, as well as for other products and services which are not provided for in art. 100 100: a) prices of producers and delivery prices for goods produced, purchased or imported and tariffs for services rendered-by subordinate units; b) retail prices for goods produced or imported by state units, cooperatives and other public organizations, of local interest, which are sold through state trade organizations; c) prices of producers for products purchased from state agricultural units, agricultural cooperative organizations, their members, craftsmen and other individual producers-by subordinate units; d) prices for vegetables and fruits, according to legal regulations; e) ceiling tariffs within which the subordinate units may agree, on the actual tariffs, with the agricultural cooperative organizations, their members or with the private craftsmen who provide the respective services; f) prices for products executed, purchased or disposed of by units subordinated to the central bodies, at the request of these bodies. This regulation also applies to the tariffs provided for in art. 97 lit. d). + Article 104 In order to prevent speculative trends, the executive committees of the popular councils will set maximum mercurial prices, within which producers unwrap products on the peasant market, as well as maximum tariffs for services. rendered to the population by craftsmen or other private providers; the maximum prices and tariffs will be changed operatively, whenever necessary, the executive committees of the popular councils having the obligation to bring them to the attention of the producers and consumers and to follow strict compliance with them. + Article 105 The retail prices established by the executive committees of the county folk councils and the city of Bucharest apply to all state bodies and units, cooperatives and other public organizations, with the exceptions provided by law. These prices can also be applied by trade organizations in other counties that unwrap these products. Also, the commercial organizations in Bucharest can apply the retail prices established by the executive committees of the county folk councils. + Article 106 The executive committees of the popular councils set prices and tariffs for the products and services executed by the subordinate units and which are subject to the economic activities of production and service provision in the communes. The establishment of these prices and tariffs is made by agreement with the beneficiaries, according to the law + Article 107 The executive committees of the county folk councils and the city of Bucharest can delegate the competence to determine the prices and tariffs of subordinated units, for products and services of less importance, executed by them. The executive committees of the popular councils approve the prices and tariffs for products and services left in the competence of subordinate units, if these prices and tariffs exceed the limits determined according to the rules provided in art. 21 21 of this law. + Article 108 The executive committees of the county folk councils and the city of Bucharest can modify the prices and tariffs in their competence-except for those provided in art. 94 lit. b), d) and e) and art. 95 lit. f) and g)-and can correct the ones they have erroneously set. F. Industrial plants, enterprises and other socialist state units + Article 109 Collective management bodies of industrial plants, other units with central status, units directly subordinated to ministries, other central bodies of the state administration and executive committees of popular councils, as well as those of commercial organizations, set prices and tariffs, according to the delegation made by the bodies that coordinate them. + Article 110 Collective management bodies of the units provided for in art. 109 may delegate to subordinate units the competence to set prices and tariffs for some products and services, specified with the agreement of the superior hierarchical body, while establishing maximum limits of prices and tariffs by groups and subgroups of products. The collective management bodies referred to in the preceding paragraph shall approve the prices and tariffs for the products and services left under the competence of the subordinate units, if these prices and tariffs exceed the limits provided in art. 21 21 of this law. + Article 111 The collective management bodies of industrial plants, other units with central status, subordinate units, as well as collective management bodies of commercial organizations, set prices and tariffs for products and services data in their competence by the higher hierarchical organs and units, based on the agreement with the beneficiaries. The prices of imported products, which are established by the conversion into lei of external prices, according to the legal provisions, are exempted from these provisions. + Article 112 The collective management bodies referred to in art. 111 may modify the prices and tariffs within their competence-except as provided for in art. 95 lit. f) and g)-based on the agreement with the beneficiaries and according to the rules of the State Committee for Prices; they can also correct the ones they have erroneously set. G. Cooperative organizations and other public organizations + Article 113 The Central Union of Craft Cooperatives and the Central Union of Consumer Cooperatives set prices and tariffs for products and services-with the agreement of the State Committee for Prices-as follows: a) retail prices for products executed, bought, imported and disposed of exclusively through cooperative units in their own system and which do not have single prices; b) prices of producers and delivery prices for products executed, purchased or imported, as well as tariffs for services rendered, by the cooperative units of their own system and not included in the nomenclature established by presidential decree or in the competence of the Council of Ministers. Exceptions to the provisions of lit. a) and b) of this article are those provided by law. + Article 114 The Central Union of Craft Cooperatives and the Central Union of Consumer Cooperatives can reduce prices and tariffs, which are within their competence, for the unsold products and services provided by the units in their own system, provided not to diminish the peaks due to the state budget. The increase in prices and tariffs whose establishment is within the competence of the cooperative central bodies, as well as the correction of established erroneous prices and tariffs, can be done with the agreement of the State Price Committee, with the exceptions provided by Law. The Central Union of Craft Cooperatives and the Central Union of Consumer Cooperatives can establish and modify the prices of means of production and tariffs for service supplies, executed by the units in their own system and which make the object of delivery or supply within the same cooperative system, even if the products and services have prices or tariffs established by the state bodies or units that have attributions in this field. + Article 115 The Central Union of Craft Cooperatives and the Central Union of Consumer Cooperatives can delegate to unions and county enterprises the competence to establish and modify prices and tariffs according to the legal provisions. The establishment and modification of prices and tariffs by them are made with the agreement of the executive committees of the county folk councils or Bucharest municipality, as the case may be Also the Central Union of Craft Cooperatives and the Central Union of Consumer Cooperatives can delegate industrial plants, other units with central status, businesses and commercial organizations, cooperatives and other companies. population service units, from their own system, the competence to establish and modify-with the consent of the beneficiaries-prices and tariffs, according to the legal provisions. The bodies and organisations set out in the preceding paragraph will set maximum price limits and rates for the groups or subgroups of products and services within the competence of the organisations they direct or coordinate directly and will be able to approve-in compliance with the conditions laid down in 21-prices and tariffs that exceed the limits they have set. The specification of products and services whose prices and tariffs are to be determined by the units of the Central Union's own system of Craft Cooperatives and the Central Union of Consumer Cooperatives is made with the consent of the Committee State for Prices. + Article 116 The retail prices set by the bodies and organizations of craft cooperation or consumer cooperation for handicraft products and folk art, executed by cooperative units, can also be applied by other organizations that unwind. these products. + Article 117 The other public organizations perform the tasks in the field of establishing and modifying the prices and tariffs provided in art. 113-115 of the present law. + Chapter 11 Powers in the field of price and tariff + Article 118 The party and state policy in the field of prices and tariffs is carried out under the control of the Great National Assembly and the State Council. The Council of Ministers controls the application of the legal provisions on the price and tariffs regime in the national economy and takes measures for their strict compliance. + Article 119 The State Committee on Prices has the following main tasks in the field of price and tariff control: a) coordinate from a methodological point of view the entire control activity exercised by the ministries, the other central bodies, the local bodies, as well as the economic units; b) exercise control over the way of establishment, modification and enforcement of prices and tariffs; c) verify the existence and application of the rules of consumption and use of machinery, in order to strictly determine the material and labor expenses underlying the establishment of prices and tariffs; d) check with ministries, other central and local bodies, as well as economic units, the realization of the costs of products and services, in order to determine the bodies in law to introduce the most effective measures to lead to reducing them; e) pursues how to comply with the legal norms in the field of prices for products intended for domestic consumption, for export, to those originating from import, as well as tariffs for services rendered; central bodies and local bodies-state, cooperative and other public organizations-, as well as the units subordinated to them, to take measures to eliminate the deficiencies and deviations found and to sanction the guilty, informing the Council of Ministers, in situations where deficiencies or deviations have not been removed; f) controls and directs the central unions of the craft and consumer cooperatives to modify or order the cooperative organizations in their system to modify the prices and tariffs established by them and to sanction the guilty, if it is found that their establishment was made without compliance with the legal norms or in cases when it is found that the production expenses envisaged were overvalued. + Article 120 For the performance of the tasks provided in 119, within the State Committee for Prices, the State Inspection for Price Control is established, which will have in subordinate the control bodies of prices and tariffs within each county, as well as in Bucharest. The state inspection for price control collaborates with the General State Inspectorate for Product Quality Control, the state commercial general Inspectorate and other bodies that have control tasks in the field of prices and tariffs. + Article 121 The Ministry of Finance, in exercising control over the economic and financial activity of socialist units, checks, through the central apparatus and its territorial control and revision bodies, how the rules in force apply in the field of prices and tariffs, aiming to respect the legality in terms of establishing, modifying and applying them and, according to the law, measures for the entry into law and the establishment of responsibilities. + Article 122 The National Bank of the Socialist Republic of Romania and the specialized banks control, at the units they serve, the application of legal prices and tariffs and take measures, according to their duties, in order to respect the legality of prices. + Article 123 The Ministry of Industrial Construction and the Committee on the Problems of the People's Councils control the establishment and application of prices for construction-assembly works that fall within their competence and take measures to respect legality in this area. + Article 124 The Ministry of Interior controls the observance of retail prices and tariffs in relations with the population, as well as the consistency between the quality of the products sold and the services provided and the prices and tariffs applied by the socialist state, cooperative and other public organizations, as well as individuals. It also controls how to set prices and tariffs by the organizations and units it directs or coordinates, taking measures to remove deficiencies and misconduct and sanction those guilty. + Article 125 The Ministry of Foreign Trade and International Economic Cooperation controls the application of the rules on the conditions of treatment of prices and tariffs in foreign currency for the products and services covered by the import-export with foreign partners, as well as their efficiency, taking strict enforcement measures of the established rules. + Article 126 The control bodies of the militia control compliance with the legal norms on the application of prices and tariffs and take measures according to their duties. + Article 127 The other ministries and central bodies of the state administration, the executive committees of the popular councils, the industrial plants and the other units with central status, the central unions of the craft cooperatives and the cooperatives consumer, central public organizations, cooperative unions, as well as enterprises, cooperatives and other economic units, control and respond to the manner of pricing and pricing, as well as the consistency between the quality of the products and the prices set, at the units and who lead, guide or coordinate, according to the law, taking operative measures to eliminate the deficiencies and deviations found and to sanction the guilty. The executive committees of the county folk councils and the city of Bucharest control the application of prices and tariffs in the respective administrative-territorial units, regardless of the body or unit that established prices or tariffs. + Article 128 The public control bodies will follow, according to the law, the fulfilment of the obligations of the manufacturing units, organizations and commercial units, as well as producers, craftsmen and other individual suppliers in connection with the application prices and tariffs and the consistency between the quality of the products or the provision of the services and the prices + Article 129 The Central Union of Craft Cooperatives and the Central Union of Consumer Cooperatives, as well as the unions of craft and consumer cooperatives, will guide and control organizations in their system and take steps to remove them. deviations in the field of prices and tariffs and sanctioning the guilty. + Article 130 Ministries, other central bodies, local bodies, as well as units that establish or apply prices and tariffs, are obliged to take the necessary measures to remove deficiencies and deviations to the complaints made by the control bodies. and compliance with legal rules in the field of prices and tariffs + Article 131 Ministries, other central bodies, local bodies, as well as economic units, will periodically analyze, in their driving teams, the conduct of the price activity and will take measures to improve it. + Chapter 12 Special provisions + Article 132 The change in prices and tariffs can only be made when more important changes occur under the conditions of the economy envisaged in their establishment, as well as at the level and price correlations on the external market. The modification of the production and delivery prices by branches or subgroups, on products and groups of products, according to the provisions of this law, will be made, as a rule, until July 1 of each year, with the application from the beginning of the following year, in order to be considered at the conclusion of the economic contracts and the completion of the plans by the units. The modification of the prices and tariffs in force at the time of application of this law will be possible to make the bodies and units in whose competence the products and services are provided, according to the + Article 133 The products that will be executed by the newly established units and which do not have established prices will be taken into account, in the elaboration of technical-economic studies, at provisional prices, determined by the units that draw up these studies, by comparison with the prices of similar products on the economic circuit and the agreement of the central body of the main beneficiary. The establishment of prices by ministries, other central bodies, local bodies, as well as by units, on those products, at a different level from the provisional one, can be done only on the basis of the agreement of the bodies that approved the indicators technical-economic. Ministries, other central and local bodies are obliged, when developing opportunity studies for new products, to present provisional prices or, as the case may be, ceiling prices, according to the law. With the approval of the products will also present the proposals on production and delivery prices or, as the case may be, retail, determined according to the law. + Article 134 The State Committee on Prices and the National Council for Science and Technology will take measures to ensure the consistency between the provisions of state standards or internal rules and the level of prices. If the amendment or derogation from the state standards or internal rules does not determine the change in the quality or the conditions for the presentation of the products, a situation confirmed by the main beneficiary bodies, the prices will be maintained in vigor. + Article 135 Prices and charges shall enter into force from the date of their establishment or at a later date provided for in the act of approval of prices and tariffs. It is forbidden to introduce in manufacturing the products and the provision of services of a serial or mass character before the prices and legal tariffs have been established. By exception to the provisions of the previous paragraph, the governing bodies of ministries, other central bodies and local bodies, industrial plants and other units with central status will be able to order: -the execution of new products and services, following the establishment of prices and tariffs to be made until the first delivery (condition), or -fixing, with the agreement of the beneficiary, of production prices, of delivery or tariffs, of a retroactive nature, in the situations provided in art. 25. Any damage caused by improper application of the above provisions will be imputed to the guilty. It is forbidden to establish with retroactive effect retail prices and tariffs for services rendered to the population. + Article 136 The Council of Ministers will establish for ministries, other central bodies and local bodies-categories of works and links-the maximum deadlines for the establishment and approval of prices and tariffs on new products and services, so that the total duration does not exceed 30 days from the date of the price or tariff proposal of the establishment. + Article 137 Collective management bodies of ministries and other central and local bodies, as well as of organizations and units-provided in art. 97, 103, 109 and 110-can delegate to the operative governing bodies the right to set prices and tariffs on some products and services. The operative governing bodies will regularly report on the performance of this task. + Article 138 Prices and tariffs are established by acts issued by the bodies and organizations with legal competence. The socialist state units provided for in art. 111 of this law and which set prices and tariffs on the basis of the agreement with the beneficiaries enter these prices or tariffs in contracts. + Article 139 The application of prices and tariffs that are determined by summing up the components of prices and tariffs shall be made only on the basis of the rules issued by the State Committee for Prices. + Article 140 The State Committee for Prices, the State Planning Committee and the Ministry of Finance will consider and propose for approval, until June 30 of each year, the changes that are required to be brought to the production and delivery prices, following that the new prices amended to enter into force on 1 January of the following year. + Article 141 Agricultural cooperative organizations, members of agricultural production cooperatives, craftsmen, individual producers and other authorized individuals sell the products and provide services at prices and invoking tariffs. The prices and invoking tariffs charged by agricultural cooperative organizations, for products resulting from industrial processing, construction, service provision and other non-agricultural activities, shall be determined on the basis of the normatives given by the Union National of Agricultural Production Cooperatives, with the agreement of the State Price Committee. In all cases where-according to the legal provisions-maximum, mercurial prices and tariffs are established, for sales to the population, prices and invoking tariffs will be practiced within their limits. + Chapter 13 Liabilities and penalties for infringements of the rules on price and tariff arrangements + Article 142 The violation of the duties provided for in this law attracts disciplinary, contravention, material, civil or criminal liability, as the case may be. + Section I Disciplinary misconduct + Article 143 The disciplinary sanctions that apply to the personnel with duties and responsibilities arising from this law, for the violation of labor obligations, are those provided for in labor law or other legal provisions. The establishment and application of sanctions shall be made under the conditions and with the procedure provided for in the internal order regulations of those The disciplinary sanctions that apply to the members of the agricultural production, craft and consumer cooperatives, as well as of the other public organizations, for the guilty violation of their obligations, are those provided by legal regulations. The establishment and application of disciplinary sanctions shall be made under the conditions and with the procedure provided for in the statutes and in the + Section II Contraventions + Article 144 It constitutes contravention to the rules on the regime of prices and tariffs, if they are not enjoyed under such conditions, according to the criminal law, to be considered crimes, and shall be sanctioned as follows: 1. With a fine of 100 per 1,000 lei: a) the sale of goods or the provision of services with illegal prices or tariffs, at fault, by the staff of the socialist units or members of cooperatives and other public organizations, within the framework of the duties; b) the sale by producers of the products, with exceeding the prices established by mercurial; c) classification and marking of products in classes of qualities other than those for which the prices or services have been established in categories other than those for which the tariffs have been set; d) non-display, in units and places of sale or service, prices or legal tariffs, lack of menu lists, display of prices or tariffs in improper conditions of visibility, clarity or identification of goods or the services and non-display of the quality category of the products or services and the category of the venue, in cases where prices or tariffs apply according to these elements, as well as non-insurance, by the prestate organizations of services, tariff lists or other forms of bringing to the attention of tariffs practised; e) failure to reduce retail prices for vegetables and fruits by employees of socialist trade organizations, empowered to apply price reductions, in such a way that the socialist trade units that unwrap vegetables and fruits in markets to practice actual retail prices at most at the level of prices frequently applied by producers to products of the same quality and under the same conditions of presentation. 2. With a fine of 200 to 1,200 lei: a) the sale by the staff of the socialist units or members of the cooperatives and other public organizations, within the tasks of the service, of the vegetables and fruits not sorted by varieties and qualities, to those products at which the prices are established on varieties and qualities; b) the exposure or undoing of low-priced goods-except for seasonal soldiers-without them bearing the distinctive sign of the soldier and without having labelled the old and new price; c) non-application of changes in prices and tariffs within the deadline; d) refusal to communicate, at the request of the control bodies, the data and information on compliance with the legal norms on the establishment, application or modification of prices and tariffs or communication, at fault, of erroneous data and information; e) the introduction into manufacturing of products and the provision of services of a serial or mass character before the prices and legal tariffs have been established, except in the cases provided for in art. 135 of this law, as well as non-compliance with the provisions III Section III, relating to the setting of ceiling prices. 3. With a fine of 500 to 2,000 lei: a) the manufacture or sale of certain products, as well as the provision of services of other quality than that provided by standards, internal rules, manufacturing prescriptions or any normative acts and which was envisaged when determining the price or of the tariff; b) the sale of some products or services for which the modification of the quality provided for in standards, internal norms, manufacturing recipes or any normative acts has been approved, without the price or tariff being modified or maintained according to art. 134, if damage is caused by the manufacturing units or beneficiaries; c) the application of the draw, in the food establishments, without approval or under conditions other than those approved by the bodies in law; d) sale of products or services by private craftsmen, with exceeding prices and tariffs-if prices and tariffs for their activity are established; e) the overvaluation of costs or the inclusion in the price calculations of larger than legal elements, if this has led to the establishment of prices or tariffs that cause damage to natural or legal persons; f) the establishment or modification, without legal approval, of prices or tariffs exceeding the limits determined according to the law, as well as the establishment or modification, without legal competence, of prices or tariffs by state economic units, cooperatists or other public organizations, producing goods, services or trade; g) non-compliance by employees of state units, at the establishment of retail prices for vegetables and fruits, of the ceiling prices established by the executive committees of the county folk councils or of the city of Bucharest. + Section III Offences + Article 145 The enjoyment by the staff of the socialist units or members of the cooperatives and other public organizations, within the framework of the duties of the service, of the following facts: a) the sale of goods and the provision of services, with exceeding prices or legal tariffs; b) classification and payment, in categories of quality inferior to real ones, in bad faith, of products bought from agricultural producers, constitutes a crime of abuse of office against the interests of persons, provided for in 246 of the Criminal Code, and is punishable by imprisonment from 3 months to 2 years. The attempt is punishable. + Article 146 Falsification or substitution of goods, as well as exposure to sale or sale of such goods, knowing that they are falsified or substituted by those provided in art. 145, constitutes a crime of deception with regard to the quality of goods, provided in art. 297 of the Criminal Code, and is punishable by imprisonment from 6 months to 3 years. If the goods have become, by falsification or substitution, harmful to health, the provisions of art. 313 of the Criminal Code. The attempt is punishable. + Section IV Application of sanctions and other measures provided for in this Law + Article 147 Persons who commit the crimes provided for in this law will be tried, in special cases appreciated as such by the court, in front of their work collectives, or of the collectives that suffered as a result of their actions illicit. Under the same conditions will be tried and instigators, accomplices, concealers and favorizers of the crimes provided in this law. + Article 148 In the case of conviction for the offences provided for in this law, the president of the court, if applicable, will notify the financial bodies at the residence of the convict, who, after examining the situation, to the extent that they find that they are grounds sufficient, will refer the research committee provided for in Law no. 18/1968 on the control of the provenance of some goods of individuals, which were not legally acquired. + Article 149 Persons convicted of the offences provided for in this law cannot be managed, applying the provisions of art. 4 4 and 5 of Law no. 22/1969 on the hiring of managers, the establishment of guarantees and liability in relation to the management of the assets of socialist organizations Also, these people cannot occupy functions of financial control bodies. In the case of crimes committed by the staff of socialist units or members of cooperatives or other public organizations within the duties of service, those convicted will not be able to fulfill, for 3 years from the execution the sentence, in the same unit or in other units, the function in which they were assigned to the date of the offence, insofar as the provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply to them. + Article 150 The final decision of conviction will be communicated by the court of execution to be displayed for two months, through the care of the management body, at the workplace in the unit to which the one convicted was operating at the time of the crime. + Article 151 The contraventions regarding the violation of the rules regarding prices and tariffs are found and sanctioned by inspectors and other workers of the State Committee for Prices, empowered for this purpose, persons with technical control powers of quality, economic and financial from the central and local bodies of the state administration and their subordinate units, as well as from the cooperative organizations and other public organizations, in the sectors of the activity and units in which they exercise control according to their duties; state commercial inspectors, in the sectors of activity where they exercise control according to the normative provisions governing the activity of the state commercial inspection; employees of the offices of prices and tariffs from the own apparatus of the committees executive of the county folk councils and the city of Bucharest, empowered for this purpose by the executive committees; mayors, officers and militia subofficers. + Article 152 Provisions of Law no. 32/1968 on the establishment and sanctioning of contraventions shall also apply in respect of the contraventions provided in art. 144. In case of contraventions provided in art. 144, the complaint shall be settled by the head of the organ to which the ascertaining agent belongs or by another hierarchical employee superior to the ascertaining agent, empowered by the head of this organ. If the contravention was found by the leader of the organ, the complaint is settled by the head of the superior hierarchical body, and if it was found by the mayor, the complaint is settled by the executive committee of the popular council. In case of contraventions provided in art. 144 144 section 2 and 3, the complaint is settled by the court in whose territorial area the contravention was enjoyed. + Article 153 If the public control teams, in the exercise of their duties, appreciate that the facts found constitute contravention or crime, they will notify the competent bodies to apply the contravention sanctions or the prosecution bodies; if it is considered that the facts found constitute disciplinary violations or are within the competence of the court committee, they refer the leadership of the socialist unit to take appropriate measures. + Article 154 In situations where the checks carried out or the postcalculations of new products are found to be an unjustified increase in profitability, as a result of the inclusion in the price or tariff calculations of overvalued production expenses, of other higher price elements than legal ones or due to deviation from the quality norms and manufacturing recipes provided in state standards, internal rules or specifications, state units will spill to the budget the additional benefit thus realized in the current year, as being unwelcome. The organizations of the craft or consumer cooperation and the other public organizations will pay to the budget the additional benefits thus obtained only for the supplies of products and services performed to the units outside the system Own. At the same time, the bodies and units provided for in the previous paragraph will reduce accordingly the prices and tariffs they have set wrong, recalculating for the current year the realization of economic and financial plan tasks. + Article 155 The state units, the cooperative ones, as well as the other public organizations, are obliged to return to those in law, under the law, the amounts wrongly collected as a result of the application of higher prices or tariffs than those established and to pay the unpaid amounts as a result of the application of lower than legal prices for the purchase of agricultural products. The control bodies have the obligation to inform the guardianship bodies or who coordinate and guide the interested units the cases found according to the previous paragraph. The amounts from sources for which it is not possible to identify those entitled to claim them will be paid to the budget as soon as the existence of these amounts has been established. If a criminal or contravention penalty has been imposed, the amounts shall be paid to the budget as soon as the sanction has remained final. The bodies that found the existence of the amounts wrongly collected will refer the bank unit to make the budget settlement. + Chapter 14 Final provisions + Article 156 The ministries and other central bodies of the state administration, the central bodies of craft cooperation and consumer cooperation, as well as other public organizations, will issue-with the State Committee on Prices-bareme and the agreement. normative calculation, rules for the establishment, correlation and formation of prices and tariffs according to the specificity of the branch, subbramure, groups or products and services within their competence, and for the products and services to which the competence of approval of prices and tariffs has been left to the subordinate units or those of Own system + Article 157 The State Committee for Prices together with the Central Statistics Directorate, the Ministry of Finance, the State Planning Committee and other interested central bodies will follow the evolution of prices and tariffs according to an information system improved, which will be developed and subject to the approval of the Council of Ministers within 90 days from the date of publication of this Law. + Article 158 The provisions of this law also apply accordingly to prices for repairs. For capital repairs executed in series to machines, machinery and their component parts, in specialized state units or specialized sectors within other state units, fixed production prices are applied, which will be determined according to legal provisions. + Article 159 The duties and rules of establishment and modification of prices for military technical products intended exclusively for the defense sector will be approved by decree of the State Council. + Article 160 This law shall enter into force within 90 days of publication. On the date of entry into force of this Law is repealed: Decree no. 172 of 18 April 1953 for the reorganization of the pricing regime; art. 2 lit. h) and i), as well as art. 3 lit. b) of the Decision of the Council of Ministers no. 2.503 of December 31, 1969 on the establishment and sanctioning of contraventions to the general rules of trade, and any other provisions contrary to this law. + Annex ASSIMILATION OF THE CATEGORIES OF PRICES IN FORCE WITH THOSE PROVIDED FOR IN THE LAW Price categories in force assimilated to the new names The price categories provided in law I. Prices of producers a) for industrial products:-wholesale prices of the enterprise-production prices b) for agricultural products delivered by state agricultural units:-delivery prices-production prices c) for agricultural products bought at the state fund from C.A.P., their members and individual producers:-contracting prices-contracting prices- purchase prices-purchase prices d) for construction-assembly works: -prices of construction objects-prices on parts of objects, on physical units and for use-deviz prices-deviz prices e) for craft or handicraft products bought from C.A.P., their members and other producers individual:-purchase prices-purchase prices *) II. Delivery prices a) for industrial products:-wholesale prices of the industry-delivery prices b) for agricultural products delivered by the acquiring organizations:-delivery prices-delivery prices III. Retail prices Retail prices IV. Tariffs-tariffs for services rendered to socialist units-tariffs for services rendered to socialist units-tariffs for services rendered to the population-tariffs for services rendered to the population. Note *) It also applies to the purchase of waste. ---------