Post by account_disabled on Mar 14, 2024 3:17:46 GMT -5
The President of the Republic, Jair Bolsonaro, completely vetoed a bill approved by Congress that regulated payment by check in commercial establishments. The decision was published this Friday (11/1) in the Official Gazette of the Union (DOU). The text presented situations in which the payment method could be refused.
According to the rejected text, the merchant who decided to accept a check as a form of payment could only refuse it if the customer had a "dirty" name, that is, registered on a credit protection B2B Lead register, or if the check presented was from the 3rd. Furthermore, the project made it mandatory for retailers to accept checks if they did not post "ostensible and clear information" refusing this type of payment.
By vetoing the proposal, the government justified to the Senate that "the proposal could represent an obstacle to the dissemination of the potential benefits of the large-scale implementation of the Positive Registry, in Law No. 12,414, of 2011, and bring insecurity to commercial establishments."
The bill on positive registration has not yet been definitively voted on in the plenary of the Chamber of Deputies. It makes the inclusion of consumers and companies in the positive register mandatory, to allow good payers to have access to lower interest rates based on their credit rating.
No discrimination
PLC 124/2017, authored by Vinicius Carvalho (PRB-SP), sought to prevent consumers from being discriminated against, restricting the possibility of customer refusal, and also protecting commercial establishments from fraud attempts and receipt of checks no funds.