Text file: 10830.txt
author: Big brother
downvotes: 4
end consideration date: 2020-03-03
id: '10830'
number comments: 24
number views: 825
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: 'Response from the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology

  The subject matter of the proposal is already regulated by the Act on Consumer Protection
  against Unfair Commercial Practices (Official Journal of the Republic of Slovenia,
  No 53/07 - hereinafter referred to as the ZVPNPP), which also prohibits misleading
  acts with regard to price or the way in which a price or a price advantage is calculated
  in Article 5(1)(4), and also provides for administrative control and judicial protection
  in Chapter IV. For aggressive business practices, the Market Inspectorate of the
  Republic of Slovenia or another competent inspection body may impose an offence
  fine on a legal person and a sole proprietor or individual entrepreneur of up to
  EUR 3,000 to EUR 40,000.

  We can agree with the petitioner that sometimes the fines imposed do not deter violators,
  and therefore, as part of the reform of the Consumer Protection Act, which should
  also include the provisions of the ZVPNPP, the Ministry will also consider a proposal
  that proposes a percentage of the company''s annual sales of the products (and services)
  affected by the violation as the basis for setting the fine.'
response date: 2020-04-07
response due date: null
sent date: 2020-02-02
title: "I appeal to the government to regulate the control of retail chains that regularly\
  \ cheat with discounts and mislead the consumer, and to set penalties as a % of\
  \ gross turnover, as in other countries, and not as a drop in the ocean for large\
  \ retailers, from \u20AC3-10,000, which is a drop in the ocean for large retailers."
upvotes: 96
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/10830
