Inspectors try to determine, whether products that may jeopardize children´s health due to faulty mechanical or physical properties, due to faulty construction or design or due to missing warning labels and other necessary information that are required to comply with the applicable safety standards, are sold on markets.
Toys designed for children below 36 months of age
During the III quarter, 110 distributors, 2 importers and 1 manufacturer were inspected.
The most frequently discovered shortcomings: The sale of insufficiently marked products, such as missing labels in Czech language, sale of products without the CE symbol and sale of products without labels specifying the name of the manufacturer, distributor or supplier.
In 24 cases the CTIA banned 807 pieces of products from sale, in the total amount of CZK 49.843,-. In 8 cases, the CTIA issued fines payable immediately, in the total amount of CZK 13.000,- and in 2 cases the CTIA applied relevant corrective and protective measures. In 17 cases the CTIA forwarded the discovered findings to the applicable court of law for further processing.
Toys designed for children between 3 - 14 years of age
During the III quarter, 260 distributors and 2 importers were inspected.
Discovered defects: The sale of insufficiently marked products, such as missing labels in Czech language, sale of products without the CE symbol and sale of products without labels specifying the name of the manufacturer or distributor or supplier and lastly, the sale of products without the necessary user´s manuals.
In 105 cases the CTIA banned 3.737 pieces of products from sale, in the total amount of CZK 236.323,-. In 68 cases, the CTIA issued fines payable immediately, in the total amount of CZK 77.500,- , and in 1 case, the CTIA applied relevant corrective and protective measures. The CTIA also collected 18 product samples. In 36 cases the discovered findings were forwarded to the applicable court of law for further processing.
Children care products
During the III quarter, a total of 25 distributors and importers were inspected.
Discovered defects: The sale of products without labels specifying the name of the manufacturer, distributor or supplier and the sale of products missing information in Czech language.
In five cases of failure to comply with the consumer protection, parties at fault were issued fines in the amount of CZK 7.000,- and in three cases the CTIA banned 4 pieces of products from sale, in the total amount of CZk 13.699,-.
From the information mentioned above it is clear that the majority of failures were discovered in the toy sectors, where toys for children of age 3 and above belong. "The discovered defects were caused due to the incompliance of manufacturers, importer and distributors with the applicable legal regulations," said RNDr. Jana Příhodová, the General Director of the Czech Trade Inspection Authority.