“There are resources that are running in parallel, filed on this topic. And so as not to add a new judicial instance It will wait for them to be elucidated to make a definition, ”he said this Friday in statements to Telemundo (channel 12).
He added that the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining “seemed (correct) not to superimpose a new judicial instance.” The new regulations of the Executive Power modified, among other things, the neutral packaging of cigarette boxes and allowed the commercialization of soft boxes and that companies introduce their logo in the filter to individualize them. The government argued that it was a measure to combat the smuggling.
The decision “has a lot of legal opportunity,” Delgado added. “The decisions of a government always end up being political, but here with legal support,” he said..
As reported The Observerthe ruling of Family Judge María Emmenengger, which gave rise to the amparo action filed by the Uruguayan Society of Tobacco, said that the application of the decree was suspended until the TCA issued an “executory sentence”.
Usually an annulment process before the TCA, the administrative justice made up of five ministers, takes between two and three years.
