The mixed commission of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies approved the conversion into law of Provisional Measure 836/2018 on 14 August 2018, which will effects from 1st September 2018. The measure still needs to be approved by the plenary of both Senate and Chamber of Deputies. The measure retracts the special regime for chemical industry under which the import or acquisition in the internal market of ethanol, propane, butane and naphtha by the oil industry is exempt from the contributions to the employees’ profit participation programme and the social security contributions.
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