The board of the Gasoline Station Owners Federation decided on Monday night to call for a 24-hour closure of gasoline stations next Thursday, March 18.

The sector's general assembly will be convening on March 21 to decide on the form of further action.

Gasoline sellers are reacting to the instalment of cash registers without the simultaneous instalment of integrated systems for the control of the inflow and outflow of the volume of fuel at gasoline stations, while they are also protesting the illegal, as they are stressing, retrogressive increase in the Special Consumption Tax last February, with a procedure that burdened gasoline sellers.