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Several thousands of inspections and diet medication phentermine against price abuse have taken place with a view to uncovering and cracking down on price abuses by the Consumer and Competition Division as well as the National Euro Changeover Committee, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said yesterday while addressing a party gathering in Naxxar. The Consumer and Competition Division alone has carried out over 54,000 diet medication phentermine and embarked on no less than 19,420 diet medication phentermine. These have resulted in the uncovering of 1,320 contraventions and steps being taken in 87 cases. NECC officials, meanwhile, have carried out 38,000 inspections and 357 price diet medication phentermine. 204 cases resulted in no steps being taken as opposed to steps being taken in 153 cases. Over and above such action, Dr Gonzi said yesterday, similar clampdowns on the prices of medicines have also been taken in hand by the government. Out of 966 inspections into the prices of different medicines, 437 diet medication phentermine were undertaken. Of these, 322 were found to have had the same price as in the European Union while 115 were priced higher than in other EU member states. 40 of the instances were found to have been unjustified while the remaining 75 cases were found to have been justified. Such diet medication phentermine, Dr Gonzi said, were among the several initiatives undertaken by the government aimed at guaranteeing a better quality of life. The majority of price hikes being registered in the country, Dr Gonzi said resulted from imported inflationary pressures related to the international prices of items such as oil, animal feed and cereals and had nothing to do with the adoption of the euro, which has not yet been introduced to the country. To measures such as the FAIR retail scheme and the several price stability agreements with Malta's importers, evidenced that the government was taking mitigating measures against any possible price abuse resulting from euro adoption. While the international price of oil continued to be a burden on the government as well as consumers, the government continues to heavily subsidise the surcharge on water and electricity, while it is also assisting over 27,000 families who were in financial need by forking out more than half the surcharge and waiving the surcharge completely in many cases. Dr Gonzi added that the government was also subsidising the prices, within EU parameters, of other products hit by price hikes such as cereals, flour, animal feeds and corn products. There were other problems in the negotiations in the prices of such products in that the prices negotiated for Malta tended to be higher than those arranged in other countries due to Malta's smaller market size. In the budget announced a month and a half ago, the government had taken other measures to mitigate the imported inflation affecting families in Malta and Gozo. Such measures included the Lm1.50 per week advance rise in wages as well as the Lm1.50 rise in pensions. Referring to the last time the MLP was in power, Dr Gonzi remarked about the government's high debt and deficit and levels, although at the time the international price of oil was nine times lower than at present. The price of oil, he said, at the time had stood at just USD12 per barrel. Dr Gonzi said how the government was continuing to invest in the country and will also continue with its work on assuring a better quality of life for its citizens not by acting irresponsibly and by spending in a wanton fashion as being promised by the opposition party. Education formed a cornerstone of the policy and the government will continue with its investment in the crucial sector. Projects in the educational field included the San Benedittu, Sant'Injazju and Verdala schools and the school about to be built at Pembroke. Dr Gonzi also referred to the modernisation of homes for the elderly such as that being completed in Mellieha and the opening of the Mater Dei hospital evidence of the government’s work. In terms of employment, the government has attracted investments such as Lufthansa Technik, the HSBC call centre in Gozo, the expansion of Methode and the SmartCity project all of which chose Malta as bases over other European countries. Overall, the last two years have been the best in terms of foreign direct investment into the country, while the tourism sector is also back on the rebound after having seen the best 10 months in the country’s history. ... diet medication phentermine