Often, during inspections carried out in one business person, several non-conformances are detected at the same time. Therefore, penalties are not usually imposed for individual non-conformances, but collectively for more non-conformances (the penalty can thus include even 6 reasons).

• The most frequent reason for imposing penalties in administrative proceedings were non-observance of obligation arising form Section 10, paragraph 1, of the Food Law - altogether 2705 cases. The financial amount of penalties for infringement of such obligations reached a total of CZK 17,139,000. Note: Section 10, par. 1) of the Food Law prohibits to release into circulation foodstuffs other than safe, falsely labelled, with an expired date of use and of unknown origin.
• Infringement of obligation stated in Section 6 of the Food Law (sets obligations for labelling of packed foodstuffs) gave reason to imposing a penalty in altogether 873 cases, which represents CZK 1,264,000.
• Infringement of obligation set in Section 11, par. 1), letter d) of the Food Law (sets obligations to separate and clearly identify foodstuffs that can be used differently independent of their original use, and foodstuffs with expired date of minimum durability) gave reason to impose a penalty in altogether 1,263 cases, which represents the total of CZK 1,289,000.
• Infringement of other obligations (e.g. non-observance of obligations in releasing into circulation the food packed and unpacked, etc.) gave reason to imposing a penalty in altogether 2,565 cases, which represents the total of CZK 5,077,000.

Bans

Bans in the total value of CZK 48,951,000 were imposed on food that did not comply with the set requirements.

The part coming from production reached CZK 7,228,000 and from shops CZK 41,723,000 (domestic products - CZK 9,215,000, and imported products - CZK 32,508,000).

Chart 4 - Proportion of bans imposed on domestic/imported products in shops (in CZK)