The Competition Council has a report recommending that those with money and no experience in tax should set up companies in this area. Well, based on this report, it looks like the Treasury would like to change the legislation. Although it seems like a good idea in theory, in practice concrete examples show that when the same thing was done in the pharmacy market, it led to negative situations for all Romanians: medicines and all kinds of supplements that we do not need.

Very briefly:

• Dan Manolescu: The number of tests recommended in parallel for other types of conditions that I had no business with has grown fantastically compared to 15 years ago because it has become a business

• Capital’s desire to make a profit is felt in the fact that certain pills are imposed on the consumer, and some become dangerous.

• If the same thing happens in veterinary medicine, and animals are given certain treatments, many more people will be affected

• It does not seem to me that the competition in the pharmacy field has increased. I see fewer pharmacies if I search for a logo. They became places to push drugs to consumers.

• You have a salary according to the employment contract. If you want an extra bonus, target me for category X non-drugs (says College of Pharmacists)

• These are unanalyzed supplements, they have an opinion, it is not known what it contains, what they affect. They have no right to write that it will have some pharmacodynamic effect.

• What can happen in accounting: A clueless investor can take advantage of a company that has a 90-year-old expert and witness all sorts of anomalies. You know that there are issues of corruption and money laundering

• “Look for a solution outside the law, create an accounting article, that is, I do not know how you should repay my loss”

• Bohdan Chiritsoyu: We conduct very little research to see what happened in practice

This brings us to the question: Will this destroy the market for tax and accounting experts, as it did for pharmaceuticals?

The head of the Competition Council admits that he did not analyze it from this point of view, but only from the point of view of how much the market has grown, and not from the quality of the offered services, which has decreased, and even forces us to take more money from our pockets.

Competition was destroyed as several major players in the market practiced the same business model.

The model of human pharmacies can also be in veterinary medicine, the legislation in the field of professions related to taxation will also change

“In the areas where I don’t have a big need for capital and I use the human resource, it has a very high weight, there, obviously… I don’t understand how someone else who is not a professional can come and invest in this area.” – Bohdan Chiritsoyu, president of the Competition Council, said at a press conference.

Gheorghe Yalomitsianu interrupted him and said that there could be other interests.

“That’s why we have quality standards, codes of ethics, you professions are the ones to watch, the ministry is the regulator to see if these people are doing their jobs well,” Chiritsou said, saying he did not believes that employees have influence if X is the boss (this has been disputed by accountants – see below).

He gave examples from the field of medicine: “We have hospitals, polyclinics that have clients who are not doctors, but the equipment is also very expensive. It’s very good that we leave the opportunity to some investors who have money and will hire doctors, people who do their job properly.”

“It seems to me that the model works well for human pharmacies,” said Chiritsoi, and the audience could hear laughter from the experts.

Chiritsou said, after he also laughed that it was controversial: “We have networks that are being standardized. And here I need a lot of money to have a supply of medicine. I think it’s good that we allow some non-pharmaceutical investors to carry out such activities.”

The same applies to veterinary pharmacies.

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“I somehow saw in your face (Bohdan Cirica) that you agree with what I thought: that we may be starting from some wrong assumptions that things are going well in those areas where capital has entered,” said Dan Manolescu, President of the Chamber of Fiscal Consultants.

• We recently visited the medical field, human medicine, to see how private medicine, which has become a business, is developing. I was surprised to find that the number of tests recommended in parallel for other types of conditions that I had no business with has increased fantastically compared to 15 years ago because it has become a business.

Speaking about drugs in pharmacies, he said that the lifting of restrictions has become a business: “We see it in the pharmacy when we go to buy human medicine, which the medicine recommends to us: you don’t want this and that? “

• According to him, we feel the capital’s desire to make a profit in the area where certain products are forcefully pushed to the consumer, and some become dangerous.

If in the field of human pharmacy the risk is that a person will have problems if he takes certain pills, in the veterinary field, if measures are taken, as Chiritsou suggests, it could end up with a 400-kilogram animal certain pills or injections, and if it is killed and then sold in the market, this meat can even make 800 people sick. The risk increases many times over.

Dan Manolescu suggested Bohdan Chirica to conduct a study to see in detail how it affects people’s lives.

“On an empirical level, walking down the street, it does not seem to me that competition in the field of pharmacies has increased. I see fewer pharmacies if I search for a logo. They have become places where drugs are pushed to consumers,” Dan Manolescu also noted.

How business owners force pharmacists to sell certain products

Valentina Sorochanu from the College of Pharmacists said that there are few competitors on the market, but the same chains have hundreds of pharmacies.

“They practice the same methods of promoting products, give low salaries to pharmacists. On the other hand, it forces them to increase the sales of other categories of goods, because for medicines we (the pharmacists’ board) impose sanctions if they give additional recommendations in addition to the doctor’s prescriptions,” she said.

But what do employers of pharmacists say?

“You have a salary according to an employment contract. If you want an extra bonus, make me a target for X category of non-medical products. These are unanalyzed supplements, they have an opinion, it is not known what it contains, what they affect. They have no right to write that it will have some pharmacodynamic effect. In this way, they force the pharmacist to work overtime, to come on Saturdays and Sundays,” Sorochanu said.

According to her, in no country in the world do pharmacies work on Saturdays and Sundays without the owner’s consent. It opens on Saturdays and Sundays, especially in tourist areas.

“If we have many pharmacies, it does not mean that everything is fine,” she noted.

What could happen to accounting if the legislation is changed in the sense proposed by the Competition Council

“In the synthesis of the Competition Council, we are nominated together with a tax consultant and auditors due to the fact that the share capital of accounting companies is mostly owned by accountants and chartered accountants,” said the president of the Corps of Accounting Experts. , Alexander Bunya.

The profession is reflected in the accounting of the entire economy of Romania.

“If these companies are allowed to be owned by other investors who have only money but no training in this field, what is the guarantee of responsibility, independence? Where is the code of ethics? Where is the responsibility to the state authorities that control the respective companies? Where is the responsibility to the auditor?”, he asked, also giving an example:

• What the Competition Council is proposing is not beneficial to the national economy. An investor who has no idea, does not even know what it is, will be able to use a company that has a 90-year-old expert and certifies all kinds of anomalies. You know that there are problems with corruption, money laundering. Where is the responsibility?

According to him, when an accounting company signs a balance sheet, a financial report, it bears criminal responsibility before the law.

“If I don’t know which investors are coming from where, then the one who works there, who thinks about his bread, about tomorrow, is obliged to accept what he is told: look for a way out outside the law, draw up an accounting article, let it be yes, I don’t know how you should make up for my loss,” Bunea said.

Gheorghe Ialomicianu, president of the National Union of Liberal Professions, confirmed what Bunea said: “With subordination, you can no longer be independent. I don’t stamp, I don’t do it, but it drives me away. Another comes and does exercises. This is due to quality. The one who gives the order is not responsible, because the professional organization has no connection with this person.”

For his part, Bohdan Chiritsoyu, the president of the Competition Council, said that he agrees to conduct an analysis of similar measures taken in the past to see the consequences in society (as happened in the pharmaceutical sector).

“We do very little research to see what happened in practice. It consumes resources, but it is worth the investment to see later whether what you thought was confirmed or not,” said Chiritsou.

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