Minister Hasani Says No Compromise in Consumer Protection

International Consumer Day. For this day it has been held the table where you will discuss “International Consumer Day”.

Minister of Trade and Industry (MTI) Bajram Hasani said the MTI has a programme to protect consumers, but that the challenge remains the small number of inspectors.

Despite that, he said they would not stop by stock and there would be no compromise if they encountered products that harm citizens.

We will not stop at these shares. I assure you, we've also got continuous shares. And we won't tolerate and we won't compromise. I just ask consumers once again, citizens to give us the information because of the small number we have of the Inspectorate. We have also requested from the Ministry of Finance that in the second six months, the number of inspectors increase, even though the number of inspectors increases, without good co-operation with citizens is very difficult to eliminate these “phenomena, Hasani said.

He has also said there have been shares that have taken and pronounced fines in cases they have faced in goods indefinitely. Until, he also spoke of the law on consumers, which was adopted today in the Kosovo Assembly.

Special attention will be paid to awareness because citizens, the consumer must understand its right to protect the law and the right to free selection of products and services, whether they are even the right to complain“, Hasani said.

The head of the consumer protection council at the MTI, Sheriff Feyzullahu, has said the law is of great importance but that the current one is not implemented.

The legal “Ascetic is a very important segment that should be present but ask whether there is abuse among us here in Kosovo, there is. There is often no law in society. No law has, luckily, our Kosovo state has achieved many laws to harmonise with the EU. I'm referring to some examples, whether there is a law about nonsmoking, whether there is a law on energy, whether there is a law on the environment, whether there is a question of whether they are applied. Here is the problem that boils in law enforcement”, Fyzullahu said.

Ceatin Kachanic of the non-government association “Consumer” has said Kosovo has improved from its pre-war period to this 10th anniversary of independence.

“On the 10th anniversary of Kosovo's independence, we can see and see major positive, quality and quantitative changes, but to advance the position and rights of tax consumers, I think we need to less and more praise to deal with the other side of the assessment that imposes corrections, improvements, incentives, advancements, more dynamic and energetic processes in raising and accelerating them. “, Kachanik said.