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He The Government will seek to simplify and deregulate the controls carried out by the National Directorate of Agricultural Commercial Control (DNCCA), today in charge of Matías Canosa in the Bioeconomy Secretariat led by Fernando Vilella. As he was able to reconstruct LA NACION through different sources consulted, the objective is to reduce the regulations and standards that that office has today, with a process similar to that carried out with the Simplified Agricultural Information System (SISA), where the mandatory declarations for agricultural producers were lowered from five to two. It is worth remembering that, among other measures, the government of Javier Milei removed the obstacles to export beef, wheat and corn that came from the administration of Alberto Fernandez.
The news surrounding the DNCCA became known after Last week, an alleged decision by the Government to “deactivate” that direction began to circulate among businessmen in the different agricultural chains. The version indicated that the functions of the office that today depends on Bioeconomy were going to pass directly into the orbit of the Ministry of Economy, of Luis Caputo, and the AFIP of Florence Misrahi. The message reached the businessmen in the sector last Friday.
The DNCCA is in charge of the administration of the Single Registry of the Agri-Food Chain (RUCA), the granting of qualifying license plates and the supervision of meat processing plants, slaughterhouses, flour mills and the grain sector. “We guarantee compliance with commercial standards by operators participating in the livestock and meat, grain, dairy, herbal, sugar and fruit and vegetable markets in order to ensure transparency and equity in the development of the agri-food sector, throughout the territory of the Argentine Republic. In turn, we assist the Ministry of Agriculture [hoy Bioeconomía]in the defense of agro-industrial chains, marketing, market transparency and the free participation of operators in it, bringing all unfair marketing practices to a minimum,” indicates that agency on its website.
As reported, the Government is analyzing simplifying commercial controls, records and regulations that the DNCCA has. Although at the moment the supposed “deactivation” that was circulated has not been decided, they slipped that it does not mean that in the future, according to the simplification process that is carried out, it will not happen. The sources consulted emphasized that There is not going to be a dissolution of that dependency. However, although this was not raised, it does not mean that at some point it will end up happening. Simplifying the regulations and their functions are being analyzed; also work on how to obtain the necessary records and procedures without giving up control. The purpose is to think of a logic that promotes competitiveness in agriculture.
In this context, contacts have already begun with the private sector, who were warned, without providing more details, about simplification work in each of the activities.
In the private sector they stated that the decision would be Juan PazoSecretary of Planning and Management for Productive Development and the Bioeconomy. They hope that the measure, when defined, will be published directly in the Official Gazette, since there is secrecy on the subject.
The versions that the AFIP and the Economy would absorb the functions generated noise given that there are sectors that have to have registration in order to operate. A businessman from the milling industry said that the intention to transfer functions has no reason because It would multiply the problems in the different chains. The version reached the refrigeration industry informally. “If the RUCA disappears you will enter gigantic informality”, pointed out a business source. The DNCCA has offices in the interior of the country that are responsible for carrying out controls. In meat it has a part of quality and control over the classification. If progress is made, the office could become controlled by Senasa and the inspection controls carried out by the AFIP. But, as a source highlighted, today there is no decision to dissolve.
The origin of the agency dates back to 1996 with the creation of the National Agricultural Trade Control Office (Oncca). In 2011, amid complaints about irregularities in the payment of a compensation system to the private sector, it was dissolved by the former president Cristina Kirchner. It was replaced by the Consumer Subsidies Coordination and Evaluation Unit (Ucesci). Today the strict task of supervision is in the DNCCA.
