Albay Rep. Joey Sarte Salceda on Tuesday dismissed the proposed amendments Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) charter as “immaterial to actual sugar prices and supply.” READ:
Salceda, chair of the House Committee on Ways and Means, made the observation as the SRA issued a memorandum circular seeking comments on the recommendations made by the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee following hearings on the sugar imports issue.
The proposal also called for expanding the membership of the SRA board from two to eight, with the supposed additional members coming from the following sectors: industrial and household consumers, sugar industry workers, sugar transportation sector workers, other relevant stakeholders.The changes also sought to prohibit the SRA board from “delegating its authority to reclassify sugar”.
“Refined sugar is now up to P120 per kilo. Industrial users have 4-5 days’ worth of inventory, and several bottling plants have ceased or downscaled operations. These are immediate price and supply problems, and the answers aren’t going to be in increasing representation in the SRA board. That might be good. But the good that comes out of that will take months if not years,” Salceda said.
“Second, a technical panel of experts composed of the DA , DTI , and NEDA should have motu proprio powers to determine, based on official statistics, whether a sugar shortage exists. That should be the basis of all sugar import orders. Acting on a shortage is not something you can compromise on in a committee. A shortage is a shortage.”
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