Principles of fairness often breached within buy-out of secondary raw material
(Prague, December 7, 2017)Within its inspection activities, the Czech Trade Inspection Authority focuses on compliance with legal regulations regulating buy-out of secondary raw materials. In the period from August 10 to September 30, 2017, it carried out 84 inspections on the whole territory of the Czech Republic and detected violations of law in almost 50% of cases. Vendors most frequently didn’t provide information about the buy-out prices, didn’t comply with fairness of sale and didn’t use certified measuring instruments.
The Czech Trade Inspection Authority carried out 84 inspections from August 10 to September 30, 2017. It inspected compliance with obligations stemming to traders from provisions of legal regulations governing provision of services related to buy-out of secondary raw materials. Special stress was put on compliance with the Act No. 634/1992 Coll. on Consumer Protection. It was also monitored whether vendors comply with provisions of the Act No. 185/2001 Coll. on Wastes, and the implementing Decree No. 3833/2001 Coll. on Details of Waste Management.
Violations of legal regulations were detected within 40 of the total number of 84 inspections, i.e. in 47.6% of cases.
The Czech Trade Inspection Authority carried out 13 inspections in cooperation with other surveillance authorities, namely 8 inspections with employees of the Czech Environmental Inspectorate, 4 inspections with trade licensing offices and 1 inspection with a municipality office. Cooperation with other surveillance authorities, especially the Czech Environmental Inspectorate, is very beneficial, so the CTIA means to continue in the joint inspections.
Inspections of buy-out of secondary raw materials–from August 10 to September, 2017Inspectorate / Number of inspections / Inspection with findings / Ratio of findings
Středočeský and Prague / 2 / 1 / 50.0%
Jihočeský and Vysočina / 6 / 6 / 100.0%
Plzeňský and Karlovarský / 16 / 4 / 25.0%
Ústecký and Liberecký / 18 / 7 / 38.9%
Královéhradecký and Pardubický / 11 / 2 / 18.2%
Jihomoravský and Zlínský / 12 / 2 / 16.7%
Olomoucký and Moravskoslezský / 19 / 18 / 94,7
Total / 84 / 40 / 47,6%
Detected findings
Most frequent findings related to breaches of the Act No. 634/1992 Coll. on Consumer Protection:
In 11 cases, principles of fairness of sale were breached within provision of services (section 3)
In 13 cases, vendors didn’t provide information about buy-out prices of secondary raw materials (section 12)
Further, in 19 cases the Act No. 64/1986 Coll. on Czech Trade Inspection Authority was breached. Inspectors found measuring instruments without certification. Sellers also used measuring instruments of uncertified types.
No infringement of the Act No. 185/2001 Coll. on Wastes was detected within the inspection.
Imposed measures
Based on detected violations of legal regulations, CTIA inspectors imposed 27 fines amounting to the total of CZK 72,000, and imposed prohibition on use of 6 items of measuring instruments that failed the requirements of special legal regulations.
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