The National Authority for Consumer Protection checked over 200 tons of vegetable products in the Bucharest-Ilfov region, non-conformities were found in more than half of the total (121 tons). It is about non-conformities regarding the way of classification, presentation and marketing, ANPC announces. «We specify that the 121 tons were identified in a single wholesale trading platform, a fact that reveals the extent of the phenomenon. As a result of the deviations found in the verified economic operators, ANPC drew up control documents based on the provisions of Law No. 363/2007 on combating unfair commercial practices and applied sanctions in the amount of over 80,000 lei.» However, no details are provided regarding the fined or controlled operators. A few days ago, Csaba Lajos Békési, the president of ANPC, declared for ZF that the institution has in progress a series of activities started since last Friday. You may also be interested: «We are going to communicate the results. We will also communicate the verified entities. Our actions were at warehouses that sell to individuals and at stores. Our role is that of an intermediary between a natural person (the consumer) and a legal entity (the merchant). The starting point in our action was a public information, then we went further along the line. Each state entity acted separately, we did not collaborate here with ANAF or ANSVSA», he affirms. Now, contacted again by ZF, Csaba Lajos Békési did not answer. NV asked which companies were checked. The controls took place in the context of fraud with fruits and vegetables of foreign origin, but presented as Romanian in the modern trade, which holds over 75% of the market. «Among the non-conformities identified are differences in caliber and quality, as well as the classification of products in quality categories by referring to the provisions of a normative act that is no longer in force. Also, the checks highlighted inconsistencies between the analysis documents that accompanied the products when they were introduced into the commercial circuit and the results of the tests carried out afterwards. The products came from a state outside the European Union and were accompanied by analysis documents attesting to the absence However, the tests carried out later in a European Union member state, using the same determination method, confirmed the presence of three active substances from the pesticide category, in compliance with the maximum allowed limits», according to ANPC. It is not specified whether it is about products that were presented on the shelf as Romanian, even though they were of foreign origin.
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