Category: Press Releases

(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 ...

(Final Report of 2013)(Prague, January 7, 2014) Subjects that place on the market any types of packaging shall respect a number of provisions stipulated in the Act on Packaging which is supervised by the Czech Trade Inspection Authority. Surveillance especially concerns compliance with limits of heavy metals content in packaging as well as responsibility to ensure safe take-back of packaging. Among others, vendors are obliged to comply with provisions concerning returnable deposit packaging. Inspectors detected breaches of the Act on Packaging...

(Final report of the project of 2013)(Prague, January 3, 2014) Portable batteries and accumulators belong among products that are regulated by the Act on Wastes concerning marking, information obligations of distributors as well as take-back of used products. At present, inspection activity of the Czech Trade Inspection Authority is mostly preventive and informative and has been positively reflected in results of surveillance actions in 2013 when only one breach of the Act on Wastes concerning monitored assortment was detected. CTIA will contin...

(Interim report of third quarter of 2013) (Prague, December 31, 2013) Discrimination of consumers is a very difficult thing to prove because in some cases consumers consider certain conduct discriminative despite vendor’s conduct is legal and cannot be considered discriminative. In other cases, consumers don’t raise their voice against discrimination, so surveillance authority is not informed about it and hence cannot punish it. However, the Czech Trade Inspection Authority inspects every submission or suggestion concerning any consumer discri...

(Prague, December 19, 2013) Each year, inspection activities of inspectors of the Czech Trade Inspection Authority are of traditional focus during the pre-Christmas period. Besides long-term inspection actions they monitor Christmas fairs that also include sale of trees and various Christmas decorations and one week before the Christmas Day sale of fish as well. In the last days of the year, there are many new stall with pyrotechnics. As well as in the previous year, December has been one of the most demanding months for the CTIA inspectors. Th...

(Monitoring of fuel quality in November 2013)(Prague, December 17, 2013) In November, the Czech Trade Inspection Authority continued scheduled inspections of fuel quality. At filling stations, inspectors collected a total of 222 motor fuel samples, including 8 samples that failed requirements of quality standards. Three samples contained excessive amount of sulphur and other four samples had lower flash point than stipulated in the appropriate technical standard. Serious deviations from a quality standard were detected in one samples of automot...

(Interim report of third quarter 2013) (Prague, December 12, 2013) With regard to the range of assortment of toys and risks that these products pose when they fail safety requirements, monitoring of market with toys and surveillance carried out at distributors belong to major annual projects of the Czech Trade Inspection Authority. Within 255 inspections carried out in the 3rd quarter of 2013, inspectors found out that more than a half of inspected entities breached obligations stipulated in legal regulations. CTIA imposed ban on sale of 470 ...

(Prague, December 3, 2013) Jewels belong among popular presents. Therefore the offer is constantly growing both offline and online which results in increased attention paid by the Czech Trade Inspection Authority to e-shops offering jewels. Results of several recent inspections carried out based on consumers’ suggestions have indicated that sellers could deceive buyers for example when providing untruthful data as well as incomplete information about products. CTIA organized an inspection action whose aim was to check selected e-shops offering ...

(Interim report for the third quarter of 2013) (Prague, November 28, 2013) In the third quarter, CTIA inspections that are focused on products infringing certain intellectual property rights continued. Inspectors checked whether sellers offered, sold or stored counterfeits, illegal imitations of products or copies of audio or video media. The Czech Trade Inspection Authority focuses not only on stall sale in border regions or market places that are known for sale of fakes, but also inspects points of sale and boutiques in shopping malls or cit...

(Inspections of services and sale of goods in connection with floods – final report)(Prague, November 25, 2013) This year’s floods have caused great damage and inhabitants of affected areas still face the consequences. However, CTIA inspectors didn’t see positive results at sellers and providers of services relating to floods in the period of July 11 to October 3, 2013. Inspectors focused on inspections of entrepreneurs who could misuse difficult situation of inhabitants with increased interest in various goods and act in contradiction with law...