Category: Press Releases

(Final report of 2014)(Prague, February 5, 2015) The Czech Trade Inspection Authority permanently monitors vendors’ practices related to special offers and seasonal clearance sales. Inspection results show that rate of detected shortcomings is still high – almost 40% of sellers don’t inform truthfully about prices after discount, bill discounts incorrectly or offer goods that is not marked properly. In 2014, 933 fines amounting in total to more than 15 million CZK were lawfully imposed for detected breaches. “Most frequent findings concerned se...

(Final report of the project for 2014)(Prague, January 30, 2015) Surveillance project of the Czech Trade Inspection Authority was focused on inspection of equipment containing fluorinated greenhouse gases used as refrigerants. Inspectors checked whether small air condition units offered to consumers are marked in compliance with the Act on substances that deplete the ozone layer and on fluorinated greenhouse gases. They discovered that 25 of 86 inspected sellers offered the above mentioned products without required extent or form of marking pur...

(Final report of 2014)(Prague, January 29, 2015) In 2014, the public was permanently interested in activities of the Czech Trade Inspection Authority especially regarding presentation sales events. One of the reasons was the amendment of the Act on Consumer Protection that became effective on January 2014 determining new obligations to organizers of sales presentation events concerning reporting about events to the surveillance authority and information towards consumers. In total 66 organizers reported 27,600 presentation sales events during t...

(Final report of the project of 2014 – ATEX – 94/9/ES)(Prague, January 26, 2014) Inspections focused on lighting intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres were carried out at seven manufacturers, one importer, and five distributors. All inspected persons ensured conformity assessment for selected products in a procedure compliant with lighting of particular categories pursuant to government order. Situation in the market was monitored within the inspection action – distributors identified suppliers and possible importer of lighting ...

(Final report of the project of 2014)(Prague, January 23, 2015) Specialized inspection action of the Czech trade inspection Authority was aimed at manufacturers and importers of pressure accessories of pressure equipment in 2014. In total 9 detected manufacturers and 1 importer of these products were inspected. All of these subjects provided assessment of conformity of selected products in a manner that corresponds with category under which accessories of pressure equipment fall as stipulated in applicable Government Order. No shortcomings were...

(Monitoring of fuels quality – December 2014)(Prague, January 19, 2015) Violations of quality indicators were detected only in two samples of diesel fuel within inspections of 137 fuel samples collected at filling stations in December 2014. In both cases, determined limit for flash point was not complied with which stand for 1.5% of poor quality samples. Other collected and tested samples of motor fuels were without defects. Violation of the upper acceptable level of bio ingredients content was not discovered concerning diesel and gasoline. T...

(Final report of 2014)(Prague, January 14, 2015) Inspections focused on quality of solid fuels are carried out by all CTIA inspectorates throughout the year. Not only selected shops with coal and wood pellets, but also workplaces about which consumers submitted complaints were inspected. It is positive that no deviations from the quality determined by the Act on Air Protection and its implementing regulations were detected in any of 16 collected samples of solid fuels. Formal shortcomings related to the law were detected within 5 of 70 inspecti...

(Continuous report of 3rd quarter of 2014)(Prague, January 12, 2015) Inspections focused on counterfeits of various consumer goods offered in the Czech market continued in the 3rd quarter of 2014. Inspectors collected in total 12,445 pieces of products that violated certain intellectual property rights within one third of more than 400 inspections. If these products were sold, owners of intellectual property rights would be damaged by 22 million CZK. Different shortcomings were detected in another third of the inspections. In total 353 fines am...

(Prague, January 9, 2015) The Director General of the Czech Trade Inspection Authority Mojmír Bezecný received primary information from radio reporter Janek Kroupa about possible corruption concerning certain inspectors of the inspectorate of South Moravian and Zlín Regions and he immediately visited the inspectorate in order to get familiar with the situation. An extraordinary audit and detailed inspection started based on the order of the Director General. The Czech Trade Inspection Authority is ready to cooperate with the Police of the Czech...

(Final report of 2014)(Prague, January 5, 2015) All inspectorates of the CTIA participated in inspections aimed at secondary raw material collection sites, in some cases in cooperation with trade licensing offices. They detected shortcomings in 60 inspected workplaces, i.e. almost in 40% of cases. 55 fines amounting to 566,000 CZK in total were lawfully imposed. Operators of collection sites most frequently violated principles of fair selling, e.g. when they incorrectly billed price of purchased secondary raw materials or used scales without va...