Restrictions on the principale of prices freedom in Algerian legislation

Abstract EN

As a result of global economic changes in general, in particular the mid-1980s, Algeria began to retreat from the monopoly economic policy, of adopting freedom of trade and industry under the Constitution of 1996, However, freedom of trade and industry is guaranteed and exercised within the framework of the law, The legislator has created a legal framework for the establishment of a set of principles that enshrine economic freedom, the most important of which is the principle of prices freedom, worthy to note that the adoption by the legislator of freedom of competition and prices by Ordinance No.

95-06 of 25 June 1995 of competition before this is explicitly enshrined in the 1996 Constitution, But if the principle of price freedom is an original principle in the market, it cannot be fully taken, The State can interfere through regulation to control and limit it in order to maintain market activity, normal competition and consumer protection