The Cabinet Council has extended temporary controls on the marketing of roasted coffee for a further six months. The decision appears in Cabinet Decree No. 14 of October 13, 2026, published in Official Gazette No. 30637 F of October 19, 2026. The measure maintains an existing framework without itself establishing a new selling price.

Article 1 extends the validity of Cabinet Decree No. 5 of March 30, 2021, which introduced the measures. Article 3 provides that the new decree takes effect upon promulgation. The published text does not replace the framework with a different comprehensive regulation: its purpose is to temporarily prolong controls that have already received successive extensions since 2021.

The decision follows an assessment by the Coffee Agri-food Chain on August 20, 2026, involving producers, the processing industry and government representatives. According to the recitals, that group recommended maintaining the measures for another six months. The following day, the Ministry of Agricultural Development asked the Interinstitutional Commission for the Defense of National Production to assess the extension, which it also recommended.

The stated rationale combines roasted coffee’s status as a sensitive product for the national economy with concerns about compliance with health standards. The decree recalls that this classification dates from 2003 and cites provisions on licensing and tariff-rate quotas, alongside international trade rules allowing certain restrictions related to quality and marketing. This background explains the decision but does not amount to new requirements created by the extension.

For producers, processors and traders, the relevant change is the temporary continuation of the control framework. When planning supply, purchases or distribution, companies must distinguish that extension from a change in prices or specific commercial terms. The decree does not set a retail price, nor do its operative provisions announce a subsidy, financial compensation or a new individual import quota.

The measure also orders that an authenticated copy be sent to the National Assembly. Identifying the obligations applicable to a particular transaction requires reading the original decree and the relevant provisions, not just this extension. The publication confirms the regulatory extension, but its effects on prices, availability or costs cannot be anticipated without additional market information.

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