Month: June 2014

(Prague, June 26, 2014) Your luggage didn’t arrive at the airport at the destination of your holiday? You may have the right for compensation up to 35,000 CZK. You shall prove the harm at best by providing receipts of items you needed to purchase in your final destination. People learned this within the Air Passenger Rights Day at the Václav Havel Airport Prague on June 26. The complete press release is available in the attachment.

(Partial report of first quarter of 2014)(Prague, June 18, 2014) Within the market surveillance CTIA inspectors find out that sellers permanently breach certain intellectual property rights when they sell and offer counterfeits and use prohibited unfair commercial practices. High ratio of detected flaws – 67.3% - as well as frequency of detected counterfeits (36.06 % of inspections) is a proof of such violations of legal regulations in the surveillance competence of the Czech Trade Inspection Authority. In the first quarter of 2014, the highest...

(Extraordinary inspection action at Olomoucká marketplace in Brno)(Brno, June 19, 2014) An extraordinary inspection action of inspectorate seated in Brno was based on information received from members of the Alien Police who detected a stall at Olomoucká marketplace in Brno in which counterfeits of popular trademarks were offered. “More than 500 pieces of counterfeits of textile products, shoes, and haberdashery were detected within the inspection and placed out of reach of the inspected marketeer. The value calculated in the prices of original...

(Partial report of 1st quarter of 2014)(Prague, June 4, 2014) Results of inspections focused on intermediaries and providers of consumer credit proved high ratio of shortcomings concerning obligations stemming from the Act on Consumer Credit as well as other laws. During 1st quarter, in total 65 inspections were carried out, including 78.5% of cases in which inspectors detected violations of law. Other inspections are still in progress. The total of 49 fines amounting to 2,917,500 CZK was lawfully imposed in the respective period. The most freq...