Business deceives consumers in scales, Inspectorate condemns 9 of them

The one with the scales. These frauds have also been confirmed by officials of the Kosovo Institute of Metrology.

In the last period alone, the market Inspectorate in the Ministry of Trade and Industry has managed to impose 9 fines for frauds in businesses, while Dogana has confiscated about 90 scales on borders, which have not met the required standard of balance fixing.

That merchants cheat and tell the citizens who have been deceived in the scales during the purchase.

Citizens Hamdi Nura says there have been cases when he was deceived in buying a weighed product in the scales.

Even Ibrahim Abazi, a citizen has said that the weight victim except consumers is also the producer in Kosovo.

While, Ragip Gashi consumer, has said frauds with scales are frequent and do not expect to stop this phenomenon from big businesses in the country.

However, directors of the Kosovo Institute of Metrology are also saying that opportunities for weight fraud are always, not only in Kosovo, but in the most developed countries of the European Union.

But Isa Elshani, leader of the Legal Metrology Directorate at the AMK, has said that they are trying to eliminate these phenomena on the basis of the Law in power and between the body appointed for the Accountary Rating, who, according to him, verify legal measurements, and if they are in accordance with the requirements of initial verification and periodical confirmation, place the certificate and issue the certificate of verification.

Elshani says that since June 7th the regulation of non-automatic scales, which defines the criteria for which it must meet a non-automatic scale before being placed on the Kosovo market.

Elshani has said that under the Administrative Guide for the verifiative period of legal measurements, non-automatic scales with maximum measurements of over 9 thousand pounds, are verified annually.

MTI Market Chief Inspector Lulzim Syla has said that during the market inspections, there have been irregularities in businesses, where they have even pronounced fines of 500 to 1500 euros. He has not indicated for which economic operators have issued fines.

While, in the last two years in Kosovo, 90 thousand scales have been imported, where, according to Kosovo Customs spokesman Adriatic Stavileci, the last case for the ban on digital-separity imports has been three months ago, as customs has encountered an import of China-born scales that have not been a set of standards that show accuracy or the level of accuracy.

For this phenomenon, Kosovo Economic Ode Chairman Berat Rukiqi has asked the relevant authorities to urgently address the balance-fixing burden, because this, according to him, creates uncertainty and many market problems.

Otherwise, multiple frauds occur with digital scales used by businesses.