In 2022, inspectors of the Republic of Srpska Inspectorate performed 25,749 controls in internal market, of which about 30% were with determined omissions in the work of business entities. Due to committed misdemeanors, 4,475 minor offence orders in the amount of BAM 7,648,300 were issued, while 80 misdemeanor and five criminal reports were submitted to the competent courts.
Due to identified omissions in work, the Republic of Srpska Inspectorate issued 4,859 administrative measures in the past year, which ordered subjects to take measures and actions aimed at eliminating deficiencies and harmonizing their work with the law.
A significant part of the capacity was also used on processing reports from other authorities, legal entities and citizens, on the basis of which over 5,000 extraordinary controls were carried out last year.
As can be seen from the structure of the measures taken, inspectors sanction all cases in which they find irregularities and order the elimination of omissions but also impose misdemeanor measures.
On the basis of employment contracts, 14,344 workers were controlled at the workplace, of which 200 workers did not have a concluded employment contract and were not registered for mandatory types of insurance.
Also, during the inspection process, 2,246 cubic meters of illegally logged forest wood assortments were confiscated, the value of which is estimated at BAM 258,184, as well as non-origin goods worth about BAM 8,000.
The Republic of Srpska Inspectorate focuses a lot of attention on the protection of consumer rights, and based on specific consumer complaints, which requested the protection of individual consumer rights, the Republic Market Inspection Service carried out 267 inspections in the past year. In 203 cases, it was determined that the complaints were justified. During the control, 182 complaints were accepted and resolved on the spot, and 21 were resolved after ordered administrative measures. In 64 controls, it was determined that consumer complaints were not justified. Consumers most often complained about non-acceptance of complaints by retailers for technical products, clothing, footwear, services of general economic interest and the like.
In order to protect the health and safety of consumers, by order of competent inspection services, 570 pieces of various non-food products were withdrawn from the market, which, based on administrative and visual control, as well as laboratory analysis, were found to not satisfy the prescribed safety parameters for use. Also, about 1,300 kilograms of food was withdrawn from circulation and destroyed due to expiration date, inappropriate declaration and sensory changes.
As part of the quality control of liquid petroleum fuels sold at gas stations in the Republic of Srpska, in 2022, 2,115 samples were taken for laboratory analysis. In 23 cases or 1.09%, deviations were found in relation to the parameters defined by the Decision on the quality of liquid petroleum fuels. It is about 20 non-compliant samples of diesel fuel and three non-compliant samples of fuel declared as BMB 95. Due to the determined irregularities, 40 misdemeanor orders in the value of BAM 500,000 were issued to the subjects.
