Fines imposed due to sale of unsatisfactory fuel
(Prague, January 11, 2011) The Czech Trade Inspection respects the public’s right to information, especially the right to information concerning protection of property, health or environment, but it does not want to become any initiator of witch-hunting. This is why many negotiations were held before concrete filling stations’ names were published; these negotiations resulted in the free access to the list of filling stations where unsatisfactory samples of fuel were collected in 2010 and also the list of subjects lawfully fined for not having met quality requirements. The list will be regularly updated.

As for the legal point of view, nothing inhibits the supervisory body from publishing the concrete controlled person that was lawfully fined, but from the moral point of view, for most of these persons such publishing becomes another punishment.

The filling stations whose addresses we publish on www.coi.cz were selling fuels of unsatisfactory quality in the time of control and were imposed fines corresponding with the extent and consequences of their unlawful conduct and also further measures of remedy. The date of control shows when the law was infringed and the fine’s amount and the deficiencies from the quality standard indicate how serious the breaching of the quality standard was.

We need to add that issuing a fine does not mean the end of monitoring of the concrete filling station. Subsequently, the CTI inspectors collect samples that, in most cases, have got the required satisfactory quality. However, there are companies at whose stations we repeatedly detect unsatisfactory parameters in collected samples – in such cases, the issued fines concern hundreds of thousands or millions of Czech crowns.

 

Attachment: The list of the controlled filling stations and subjects who were lawfully issued fines for the sale of poor quality fuel in 2010.

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