It has allowed small but regular increases in state-set diesel prices and allowed more foreign investment in a number of sectors, including retail and aviation.
Since September, the government has taken several fiscal reform measures such as allowing regular increases in state-set discounted prices of diesel and capping the number of LPG cylinders available to families at subsidized rates.
Most of this burden was carried as an implicit subsidy to domestic energy consumers, with the price of diesel fuel, for example, set at the equivalent of two American cents a litre, and petrol selling for less than bottled water.
The BBC understands that it also believes the European Commission is partly to blame because it did not set proper limits on pollution from diesel exhausts in the first place.
The Forum said that automakers are set to introduce more than 20 new clean-diesel vehicles in North America this year, roughly doubling the number of diesel nameplates available.