הצעת חוק הגנת הצרכן (תיקון מס' 69) (איסור הפעלת השפעה בלתי הוגנת במצב חירום), התשפ"ד–2024Bill for Consumer Protection (Amendment No. 69) (Prohibition of Exercising Unfair Influence in a State of Emergency), 2024 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

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Bill: חוק הגנת הצרכן (תיקון מס' 70), התשפ"ד–2024Consumer Protection Law (Amendment No. 70), 2024auto

About the law and the debate

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

The Law is intended to address exceptional and significant price increases following a declaration of a state of emergency. A state of emergency is defined as one of the following: a special situation on the home front, a civil emergency event, or a state of emergency declared under law for the purpose of dealing with a dangerous infectious disease. The Law establishes that if a state of emergency has been declared, and the Minister of Economy and Industry is convinced that there is a real concern that dealers will exploit the state of emergency to raise the prices of essential goods and services, he may, in consultation with the Minister of Finance, issue a declaration prohibiting unfair influence during a state of emergency. The Law establishes that during the validity period of this declaration, a dealer shall not offer, display, or sell to a consumer a service or goods listed in such a list, at a price that significantly and exceptionally exceeds its average price in the three months preceding the declaration of the state of emergency. Regarding the products and services to which these provisions will apply, the Law establishes that during the validity period of a declaration prohibiting unfair influence during a state of emergency, the Commissioner of Consumer Protection and Fair Trade and the Commissioner of Budgets at the Ministry of Finance will be authorized to establish a list of essential goods and services, which will be published in the Official Gazette, and will also be authorized to update the list. This list will be established taking into account the characteristics and circumstances of the state of emergency that will be declared. A dispute between these two parties regarding the inclusion of a particular good or service in the list will be brought for decision to a public representative appointed by the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Economy and Industry, but this will not prevent the publication of the list of goods and services on which there is agreement. Alongside the prohibition on raising prices during a state of emergency, the Law establishes exceptions in which a dealer who performed the above will not be regarded as having exerted unfair influence. For example: cases in which the price increase was made according to law or according to an agreement between the dealer and the consumer, signed before the declaration of the state of emergency, or cases in which the increase in the price of the service or goods results from increased costs that the dealer is required to bear in order to supply the service or goods. For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of the Law, the Commissioner of Consumer Protection and Fair Trade was authorized to issue an administrative order to stop a violation under Section 21C of the Law to a dealer who exerted unfair influence under such circumstances, and also to impose financial sanctions on a dealer who violates the administrative order. The financial sanction that the Commissioner is authorized to impose is not a fixed amount from the amounts listed in the Consumer Protection Law, but rather a percentage of the violator's sales turnover.

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