Category: Press Releases

(Prague, April 6, 2016) In the spring time people start buying scooters especially for children. However, not all scooters are safe. This has been the case of a toy which was detected in the Czech market and which poses risk of injury to smallest users. The Czech Trade Inspection Authority ordered immediate withdrawal of the product from distribution. The product failed safety requirements within several parameters, namely concerning protruding parts, wheels and strength. The toy was notified as dangerous into the RAPEX database, notification n...

(Final report of 2015)(Prague, March 31, 2016) During 2,414 inspections of offer, sale and storage of products or provision of services that infringe certain intellectual property rights the Czech Trade Inspection Authority discovered flaws in 1,643 cases, including 474 violations of certain intellectual property rights. Besides sanctions, 35,694 pieces of counterfeits were collected and stored out of reach of inspected persons because the damage to the owners of the intellectual property rights would amount to more than CZK 101 million. As reg...

(Partial report from monitoring of fuels quality – February 2016) (Prague, March 29, 2016) In February the Czech Trade Inspection Authority collected 200 fuels samples. Two diesel samples (i.e. 1.0%) failed the quality requirements of the applicable technical standard concerning flash point. In one case the flash point value was 49°C and in the other case it was 45.5°C while the determined limit is 53°C. Such defect could have been caused by transportation of diesel and connected contamination from other products, for example petrol. In ...

(Final report from the inspection project of 2015)(Prague, March 21, 2016) Inspection action was scheduled for the 2nd semester of the year when most consumers order coal and resupply fuels for the winter season. Besides compliance with principles of honest sale as well as other obligations stipulated in the Act on Consumer Protection, inspections were also focused on inspection of qualitative indicators of acceptable level of solid fuels pollution in the extent determined by the Act on Clean Air Protection and the applicable implementing decre...

(Final report of 2015)(Prague, March 18, 2016) In 2015, special offers and seasonal cleansing sales belonged to the inspection areas monitored during the whole year. The Czech Trade Inspection Authority inspected almost 4,500 shops offering discounted goods or services and detected violations of obligations stipulated in generally binding legal regulations in 43% of cases. Results of the inspection action again proved numerous repeated flaws, especially insufficient or deceitful information provided about the prices of offered products and serv...

(Final report of 2015)(Prague, March 14, 2016) The aim of the inspection project of the Czech Trade Inspection Authority was to inspect the level of services provided by tire services as well as the compliance with obligations stemming to sellers or services providers from generally binding legal regulations. Inspections were scheduled for the spring and the autumn when consumers-motorists use these services most frequently. Inspectors detected flaws in 77 of 204 inspected workplaces (almost 38%). Vendors most frequently breached the obligation...

(Final report of 2015)(Prague, March 11, 2015) E-commerce belonged among the most frequently monitored inspection fields in 2015, not only due to the high number of existing e-shops but also to numerous consumers’ submissions. Consumers most frequently complained about deceitful commercial practices, unfair and in some cases even fraudulent vendors’ conducts. The Czech Trade Inspection Authority inspected 1,194 e-shops offering goods and services and found breaches of legal obligations in 990 cases (82.9%). During the year, 825 fines amounting ...

(Final report of the inspection project of 2015)(Prague, March 7, 2015) Within inspections of small air conditioning equipment containing fluorinated greenhouse gases used as refrigerants CTIA officers inspected whether products offered to consumers are marked in compliance with the Act on substances that deplete the ozone layer and on fluorinated greenhouse gases. During 62 inspections they found out that 4 products weren’t properly marked in the extent and form determined by the law. Most findings were transferred to the Czech Environmental I...

(Final report of 2015)(Prague, March 4, 2016) Results of inspections aimed at presentation sales events were partly successful when the number of organized events decreased by one third in 2015 when compared with 2014. The number of organized events decreased from more than 27 thousand down to about 18 thousand. However, behaviour of some commercial entities didn’t change - they avoided or even intentionally breached the obligations of organizers of presentation sales events. CTIA officers detected flaws in 339 of 420 inspections, i.e. 80.7%. T...