Portugal: Know that prices will increase from 1 January.
The Portuguese can count, from this first day of January 2016, with increases in electricity prices, bread, rents or telecommunications, while gas prices, milk and public transport should remain.
The prices of gas and milk are expected to remain, once, in the first case, tariff update happens only 01 July for consumers who remain in the regulated market and, no second case, the industry association says that by the end of the first half the price of milk should not change “unless there are abnormal situations”.
Also prices of public transport in Lisbon and Porto remain unchanged next year.
But the bread should suffer only “minor adjustments” of 2% a 3% in 2016, They will have little impact on the price, in other words, about half cent a housing, according to industry association.
Here are some examples of how prices are in 2016:
Public transportation
Prices of urban public transport in Lisbon and Oporto – Carris and STCP, of meters of Lisbon and Porto and Transtejo / Soflusa – will remain unchanged next year, similar to what happened in 2015.
Contacted by Lusa, the office of the Minister for the Environment explained that the tariff increases “not justified”, due, namely, Low fuel prices, as well as the government defend “the increase in public transport mobility”.
Tolls
The tolls rises five cents in 2016, but the increase is limited to 10% the sections of motorways portajadas, remaining unchanged in the remaining, according to the Ministry of Planning and Infrastructure.
“The annual review of tolls on motorways is effective 01 January 2016, according to the respective concession contracts, providing for the update based on the change in the Consumer Price Index”, recalls the ministry tutored by Pedro Marques.
Already on bridges 25 April and Vasco da Gama, the update varies between five cents (class 1, in both bridges) and 15 cents (class 4, the bridge Da Gama).
The Infrastructure Portugal (IP) will increase by five cents 34 the 550 toll charges for motorways that are concessioned you next year.
Water EPAL
The price of water will rise on average 33 cents per month for most residential customers EPAL from 01 January, but remains the social tariff and family.
“For the vast majority of domestic customers EPAL, next to 86%, the new tariff for 2016 will mean an average update 33 cents per month”, reads the company statement.
EPAL recalls that have available a social tariff aimed at the neediest families and providing discounts that can go up to 94%.
Electricity
Electricity rates in the regulated market will rise 2,5% for domestic consumers from 01 January, representing an increase of 1,18 euros at an average monthly bill of 47,6 euros.
Already the social tariff for consumers considered economically vulnerable will have an increase of 0,9%, which corresponds to an increase of 19 cents on an average monthly bill for electricity 21,5 euros.
The transitional tariffs for some 1,9 millions of consumers who have not yet migrated to the liberalized market apply from 01 January 2016 and apply throughout the year.
Gas
The transitional tariffs of natural gas to remain unchanged 01 January, since tariff update on natural gas only happens 01 July for consumers who remain in the regulated market.
A 01 July 2015, Natural gas prices have fallen 3,5% for domestic customers and small businesses (annual consumption lower than or equal to 10.000 cubic meters), They fell 5% for consumption above 10.000 cubic meters (small industry) and the average pressure consumers (industry) downloaded 2,9%. Already the social rate fell by 7,3%.
milk
By the end of the first half of 2016, the price of milk should not change “unless there are abnormal situations affecting the industry”, adverse weather or as a raw material climbs, said the president of the National Association of Dairy Industry (ANIL), Paulo Costa Leite. “During the first half there will be no objective conditions to stir in milk prices”, He told Lusa.
A view supported by the National Federation of Milk and Dairy Cooperatives (FENALAC), Fernando Cardoso: “We wished there was some recovery in terms of price, but as the milk supply exceeds demand, it's gonna be hard”.
The pint of semi-skimmed UHT milk, representing more than half of the milk consumed in Portugal, costs about 52 cents, but it comes often cheaper to consumers, fruit of “aggressive promotions” in the retail industry that ANIL contests.
“Boss in prices is not production, neither industry, It is the distribution, playing with prices and promotions randomly and confuses the consumer with prices that are misfits of reality”, criticizes the head of ANIL, saying that “values ​​should not fall below certain levels.
Bread
The price of bread should have “minor adjustments 2% a 3% 2016”, which means about half a cent per housing, He told Lusa the president of the Association of Trade and Bakery Industry, Pastry and Similar (ACIP), José Francisco Silva.
The housing price currently stands at 12 a 16 cents, so buy ten chat-dry can come to cost five cents. “Bread is perhaps, within the Portuguese basket, the cheapest product”, He stressed the industrial, noting that the price of food has a very important social burden.
The update will be needed to keep pace with changes in energy costs and the projected minimum wage increases, He explained the head of ACIP, stressing that it is important to set this value as soon as possible. The minimum wage will increase to 530 euros already in January 2016.
telecommunications
telecommunications prices of Meo and Vodafone will rise on average 2,5%, a partir de 01 and 13 January, respectively, while US tariff rises on the first day of 2016, but does not reveal the average increase.
Vodafone Portugal has already announced that from 13 January, and as has happened in previous years, “there will be a price update, which varies according to the service in question, but that on average will be between 2% e 3%”.
Vodafone Portugal also states that “customers who have subscribed to services Net TV Voice, the fixed, RED and the mobile, that are still in the period of 24 month price guaranteed, will not have any change in their monthly”.
Already the US, carrier resulting from the merger between Optimus and Zon, declined to forward the average increase, but added that “a partir de 01 January 2016″, update their prices according to the released 'site’ nos.pt/tarifas2016”. The operator justifies “rising prices varies with the type of service or subscribed package, there being a benchmark for the entire base”. All operators have the information available on the update of the tariff in their 'sites'.
rents
The rents should increase 0,16% in 2016, after this year have been frozen, according to the inflation figures of the last 12 months through August, released by the National Statistics Institute (INE).
According to the values ​​published by the INE, we last 12 months to August the change in the price index excluding housing was 0,16%, value that underlies the coefficient used for the annual update of rents, under the New Regime Urban Lease (Competitions), and represents more 16 cents per 100 Income euros.
Or increase 0,16% rents in 2016, applicable to both the urban and the rural environment, follows the recorded freeze in 2015 the negative sequence variation price index excluding housing, and means the resumption of positive updates rents, which recorded four years of consecutive increases of 2011 and 2014.
