The instrument will come into effect from September 1, to become mandatory use from November 1, and will improve the traceability and security of grain transportation, by simplifying procedures and providing greater transparency to the activity.
From the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Nation, they highlighted the advantages of the new electronic consignment note, which aims to improve the inspection capacity of the agricultural sector and simplify procedures, and which can be used from September after a joint work that involved the portfolios of Agriculture, Transportation, Security and the Federal Administration of Public Revenues (AFIP).
Regarding the impact of the new instrument for the sector, which will improve the traceability and security of grain transportation, by simplifying procedures and providing greater transparency to the activity, the Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Nation, Jorge Solmi, expressed that "it is an old request from the sector, both from the producers and from the institutions that bring together the producers."
"The consignment note - he continued - today is going to be transformed into a digital instrument that will provide immediate information and much easier to load, with a QR code that will determine what type of grain is being transported, the reference rates and the places that this load will go through. This simplifies the activity of the entire production chain and corrects many errors that we had in the controls, "he added.
With the new modality, the process of requesting, loading and issuing the voucher will be done online in a single step and in the same application. Electronic consignment notes will not be reusable and will have a barcode and QR code that will allow you to view the data of origin and destination of the cargo, essential for control en route.
In this sense, the Undersecretary of Agriculture, Delfo Buchaillot, stated that the electronic consignment note "is a system that is immensely beneficial for agricultural producers, for collectors and for transporters because it provides traceability and security."
The digitization of the consignment note was implemented through a joint resolution signed by the ministers, Luis Basterra; Sabina Frederic; Alexis Guerrera, and the Director of the AFIP, Mercedes Marcó del Pont, and will replace the forms in paper format that until now were used to document the transportation of automotive and rail grains to the interior of the country.
Likewise, the tool gives the State greater control and traceability capacity. The changes will take effect on September 1 and will be mandatory as of November 1. ■