Price surveillance watchdog to strengthen monitoring

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 9 - Business and Made in Italy Minister Adolfo Urso on Friday instructed Italy's price surveillance watchdog to strengthen price monitoring as part of efforts to counter inflation.
    In a statement the ministry said Urso had "mandated the Guarantor for Price Surveillance, Benedetto Mineo, to initiate the necessary actions for closer collaboration with the Regions to monitor the dynamics of variation in the territories" in response to the findings of the government's new rapid alert commission, set up by the recent 'transparency decree'.
    "The fight against inflation is a government priority," the statement added. (ANSA).