As I mentioned earlier, however, the goal of the draft law would be to facilitate the use of electronics in the check collection and return process by empowering banks to truncate checks if cost savings or other benefits can be identified – in other words, when there is a good business case.
These new long-term prices are due to higher energy costs, while the relatively high current price is due to rather long production cycles, with significant fixed costs and low marginal costs. In turn, the prices of agricultural products are relatively high, but long-term prices have not increased.