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Monitoring of West Bohemia flea markets and buy and sell affairs during June 2009

(Prague, July 10,2009), during the month of June 2009, inspectors of the Czech Trade Inspection Authority, Inspectorate Plzeňský and Karlovarský, performed inspection of flea markets and buy and sell affairs in cooperation with the Foreign police, Customs office and local licensing offices.

During this inspection period, a total of 13 inspection actions, including 87 individual inspections, have been performed, focusing on markets and buy and sell affairs, located along the border. During this inspection period, the CTIA issued 56 fines, in the total amount of CZK 92,000,- due to violations of consumer rights protection law and 2 fines payable immediately in the total amount of CZK 2,000,-. In 9 cases the CTIA will begin applicable legal proceedings. On 5 occasions, CTIA inspectors discovered goods violating some regulations of the intellectual property law. The total number of such goods (256 pieces) represented the value of CZK 249,850,-.

71 CTI inspectors, 136 police officers of the Foreign police department and 12 employees of the Customs office participated in these inspection events.

Thanks to the systematic monitoring and thanks to the cooperation with other state authorities, we have successfully managed to completely eliminate sale of goods violating intellectual property law at all West Bohemian markets. During the month of June 2009, we have recorded 5 cases of such goods, which proved to be old storage goods (256 product), in the total amount of CZK 249,850,-.

In most sale locations, the situation is good in this region. That means that the selling locations or stores are properly marked, as required by the applicable legislature. During these inspection activities, violations of this type were discovered only on few occasions.

Inspections focusing on the fact, whether consumer rights protection law is observed are common practice of monitoring activities of markets and buy and sell affairs along the border. “Inspection activities performed during this time revealed deficiencies in goods pricing policies or in connection with responsibilities to provide consumers with applicable and relevant information. However, it is not a widespread issue or problem, but mainly negligence of local and individual sellers”, said RNDr. Jana Příhodová, the General Director of the Czech Trade Inspection Authority.

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