200-300 GRAMS IN EACH KILOGRAM
Support A1+!Abgar Yeghoyan, chairman of “Consumers’ Rights Protection” NGO announced today that one would hardly meet scales that weighted correctly in the trade centers in Armenia. Majority of consumers are deceived about 200-300 grams in each kilo. According to him, this is one of the spread violations in the trade centers. “It has a widely expended phenomenon and negatively influences on the establishment of fair economic competition in the country”, noted Abgar Yeghoyan.
Chairman of “Consumers’ Rights Protection” NGO mentioned that according to the RA Law on “Securing unity measurements” once a year scales in the trade enters should be checked in the Republic, while according to “2007 facts of the RA National Institute of Metrology, about 6000 scales of 25 000 have been checked in the Republic”. Those who use unchecked scales, should be fined with 50000-100 000 drams.
Abgar Yeghoyan ensures that if scales worked correctly, New Year rise in prices would be 15-20 percent. According to him, index of checked scales could be violated when the conditions and rules of the usage of scales were altered.
Reflecting on the hand scales used in the street trade, Mr Yeghoyan mentioned that might deceive for 300-500 grams. “Scales used in the streets are not checked and they show lower weight than other scales do. Those hand scales are the property of physical individuals, who are not registered as enterprisers, thus, the law does not refer to them”.
“Consumers’ Rights Protection” NGO has made a number of proposals to the RA Ministry of Trade and Economic Development to settle these problems. “We offer to use checking scales in the trade centers, to take stricter measures of punishment in case violations”, informed Abgar Yeghoyan.
