Category: Press Releases

(Prague, August 7, 2012) The new act stipulating the obligations of consumer credit providers and intermediaries has been in force since January 1, 2011, but the Czech Trade Inspection Authority finds out breaches of consumer rights in the same rate not only at intermediaries, but also at creditors from the non-banking sector. In 72 of 141 controls of credit contracts and offers or of advertising on provision or intermediation of a consumer credit which were carried out within the first half-year of 2012, the CTIA inspectors found breaches of o...

(Prague, August 8, 2012) The CTIA warns against potential purchases of the Alpina Rocky bicycle. There are several reasons for such recommendation: the bicycle doesn’t have two independent brakes; pedals do not provide enough space for pedaling and the child may hit the mudguard with the toe-caps of his shoes; the handles are not efficiently fixed to the handlebar. Thus it is not possible to effectively stop the bicycle before a barrier; the child loses balance and falls when his shoe’s toe-cap gets hooked by the mudguard as well as when the ha...

(Prague, August 1, 2012) When monitoring safety of toys, the Czech Trade Inspection Authority found that in the market an anonymous product is sold – children’s bike Bug which poses a risk of injury to its users. They could pinch their fingers or injure other parts of their bodies. Several parts of the bike are dangerous so we advise consumers to check whether this product is used by their children or to step back from considering a potential purchase of this product.

(Prague, August 3, 2012) The Czech Trade Inspection Authority warns against another dangerous toy which was found by the CTIA inspectors in Western Bohemia. The pelican wind-up toy is attractive for children due to its colours and movable parts, but it is not suitable for playing as it is dangerous for small children. The toy can be very easily disassembled into small parts that may potentially injure the baby or cause suffocation – e.g. the sharp metal turning pivot decorated with a flower or tiny balls placed in the beak. The CTIA banned sell...

(Prague, August 2, 2012) Procurement of secondary raw materials is not only where metal waste is concentrated for further elaboration. As the controls carried out either by the CTIA alone or in cooperation with the Czech Environmental Inspectorate have proven, some operators of the procurement centres also buy various objects whose procurement is forbidden due to the suspicion that they were stolen (manhole covers, metal parts of street lighting, traffic signs, safety cables and so forth). In the range of their competencies, the inspectors of t...