Category: Press Releases

(Monitoring of fuel quality in 2013)(Prague, February 11, 2013) All-year monitoring as well as continuous and targeted inspections carried out by the Czech Trade Inspection Authority in cooperation with other surveillance authorities in the Czech market with fuels have resulted in further slight reduction of proportion of poor quality motor fuels in the retail market. In 2013, CTIA collected a total of 2,495 samples of motor fuels, including 73 (2.9%) that failed requirements of technical standards. The proportion of minor deviations from requi...

(Final report of 2013)(Prague, February 6, 2014) All-year action of Czech Trade Inspection Authority focused on inspection of obligations of operators of secondary raw materials procurement centres proved that more than one third of them breached the obligations stipulated in generally binding legal regulations. CTIA’s authorization to inspections within this field is governed by the Act on Consumer Protection and partly by the Act on Wastes that is inspected by the Czech Environmental Inspectorate (CEI). In 2013, within its inspections the CTI...

(Final report of 2013)(Prague, February 4, 2014) Breaches of intellectual property rights have been a long-term problem with which surveillance authorities of inner market of the Czech Republic dealt with in 2013 as well. With regard to the interest of especially foreign consumers in cheap counterfeits of branded products and copies of both audio and video carriers there are still many entrepreneurs trying to satisfy such demand. Nor frequent inspections or long-term monitoring of large marketplaces can stop them. The same applies to fines amou...

(Final report of 2013)(Prague, January 31, 2014) Higher number of breaches of the Act on Consumer Credit and higher fines – this is the summary of results of the Czech Trade Inspection Authority within inspections focused on intermediaries and providers of consumer credit. Violations of applicable legal regulations were detected in 65% of the total of 319 inspections. The Act on Consumer Credit was breached by almost a half of inspected non-banking subjects that intermediate or provide consumer credit. Most frequently, the act was infringed whe...

(Final report of the project for 2013)(Prague, January 29, 2013) In 2013, CTIA carries out inspections focused on gypsum plasterboards and accessories, i.e. construction, connective and fastening components, metal beads, grouting materials and gypsum based adhesives. At 7 manufacturers and 24 distributors, inspectors of the Technical Inspection Department checked a total of 77 product types used for installation of gypsum plasterboards and detected shortcomings in 53 cases. The shortcomings concerning installation components and other accessori...

(Brussels, January 14, 2014)  The Joint Action 2011 has recently completed the testing of 25 lawnmowers. Two thirds of the tested lawnmowers did not comply with safety requirements. The results of these and other product tests in this Joint Action will be presented at the final conference of the Action on February 19, 2014. The entire press release for download (PDF):

(Final report of 2013)(Prague, January 23, 2014) Resilient, textile as well as laminate floor coverings that are designed for floors inside buildings or in exteriors were inspected within an action carried out from February 18 to October 15, 2013. During the project, inspectors of the Czech Trade Inspection Authority checked 94 distributors of these products in retail network and detected violations of the Act on Technical Requirements for Products in one third of cases. Offered floor coverings were not equipped with CE marking of conformity or...

(Final report for 2013) (Prague, January 22, 2013) Electrical appliances are specified products on which provisions of the Act on Technical Requirements for Products as well as a number of technical standards apply with regard to high rate of risk of injury by electric current or fire in case when safety standards are not complied with. Fulfilment of obligations by producers, importers, and distributors of electrical products is continuously enforced by the Czech Trade Inspection Authority. In 2013, technical inspectors inspected a total of 1,1...

(Final report of 2013)(Prague, January 9, 2014) When placed on the market, decoration wallpapers shall fulfil obligations determined by the Act on Technical Requirements for Products as well as appropriate implementing regulations and technical regulations. With regard to numerous breaches of law detected within inspections of wallpapers in 2012, the inspection action continued in the following year. During 2013, CTIA inspectors inspected 82 distributors in retail market network and detected shortcomings in 19 cases that mostly concerned wallpa...

(Monitoring of fuel quality in December 2013)(Prague, January 14, 2014) In December, a total of 166 samples of petrol, diesel fuel, fuel blends, FAME, LPG, CNG, and ethanol were collected and 5 of them failed technical regulations, i.e. 3%. Three collected samples of LPG exceeded limit contents of sulphur up to three times, thus, it can be assumed that such deviations were a result of a production defect or it was intentionally manipulated with the motor fuel. Excessive content of sulphur in two samples of LPG was already detected by the Czech ...