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Havana, Nov 2.- The Official Gazette of the Republic publishes today Resolution 93/2023, of the Ministry of Domestic Trade (MINCIN) , which will come into force within 30 days and highlights the obligation of entities dedicated to trade to ensure consumers access and use of electronic payment channels.
It is established as a requirement for these establishments to have payment facilities through national gateways or point-of-sale terminals for the marketing of goods and provision of services to the consumer, a measure that extends to all natural and legal persons that carry out commercial activities subject to Registration in the Central Commercial Registry (RCC).
In this way, the rights of consumers are reinforced when they attend any of the 20 thousand units of the sector and local subordination with electronic payment in the country, or of all state and non-state economic actors that carry out the activities governed by the MINCIN.
Some of these are retail and wholesale sales of merchandise, gastronomic service and social food, but to exercise them you must be registered in the Central Commercial Registry, as Inalvis Smith Luben, vice minister of the organization, and Santiago Secada Elozegui, director, stressed to the press of that dependency.
Both offered details of the scope or importance of Resolution 92/2023 to the press, and Smith particularly stressed that every establishment must have at least one electronic payment platform, and only units in quiet zones are exempt from the measure, with the corresponding certification from the Cuban Telecommunications Company (ETECSA).
It was explained that as part of the improvement of commerce in 2020, the deployment of electronic channels through point-of-sale terminals began in the local subordination system, starting in 2021 it was expanded to Transfermóvil and the QR code, and from implementation of Resolution 111/2023, of the Central Bank of Cuba, work is being done in an accelerated manner on banking.
Specified that these BCC regulations, in addition to constituting a strength for establishments in the sector in terms of consumer rights to use payment channels, expand the scope of what was being done by requiring the use of payment channels from now on electronic platforms to all economic actors, state or not, that carry out Commerce.
It is established that these natural and legal persons, who operate without national gateways or point-of-sale terminals for the marketing of goods and provision of services to the consumer, have up to 60 calendar days to guarantee said facilities, counted from the date of entry into validity of this regulatory provision.
After this period, the activity in question is suspended, says the Resolution.
Secada specified the mission of the Central Registry to issue commercial authorizations or licenses, according to the type of currency, to operate in establishments in the sector. (ACN) (Photo: Archive)
