The measure was carried out through resolution 390/2022, published this Monday in the Official Gazette, with which the parameters established in the Trust Fund for Subsidies for Residential Gas Consumption, created in 2002, are updated with those established in Law 27,637 Cold Zone, sanctioned 19 years later.
The Fund, created through article 75 of the 2002 Budget Law, included the provinces of La Pampa, Neuquén, Río Negro, Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego, the department of Malargüe in Mendoza, the Buenos Aires district of Carmen de Patagones and, later, four departments of Jujuy and six of Catamarca included in the region known as the Puna.
The Cold Zone law incorporates 94 parties from the province of Buenos Aires (in addition to Carmen de Patagones), 18 from Mendoza (including Malargüe), 13 from Córdoba, 4 from La Rioja, 16 from San Juan, 8 from San Luis , 8 from Santa Fe, 15 from Salta and 1 from Tucumán.
“It is necessary to carry out the regulatory modifications to enable said regime to also reach the users who reside in those areas”indicated the resolution in its recitals.
The maximum annual volumes to be compensated range from 3,930 kilograms of LPG in Tierra del Fuego and the Santa Cruz departments of Lago Argentino and Gûer Aike to 510 kilos in the 57 districts that make up zone I in Buenos Aires.
Residential users who purchase LPG at differential prices through the system of bonds, vouchers, magnetic cards or any other, must be registered in the Provincial Registry of Residential Users of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, which must be prepared by each province.
