VIK DARCHINYAN: "I LOVE FIGHTING FREQUENTLY"
Aysor, Armenia
Jan 15 2010
The Public Council’s entrepreneurial and the consumer’s rights
defense sub-commission has worked out a project together with the
RA Ministry of Economy, the Standards and Metrology institute and
the participation of the Public Council representatives. They should
organize frequent visits
On the interview with Aysor.am A. Sadoyan informed that "1-2 visits
have already been realized, now they are planning to start and realize
corresponding activities in the nearest future."
"There have been recorded many breaches in many places, but no
activities have been undertaken. The program is continuous. Once in a
week the results will be introduced to the public", – said A. Sadoyan
and added that the result will be in the second half of the next week.
A. Poghosyan informed that in different shops of Armenia, in markets
and shopping centers there are around 26 thousand scales, of which
only 6 thousand are checked and sealed.
"When the institute of Metrology states that the scale is not correct,
the same working center continues working with the same scale. The
weight checking process starts with the selling company, which applies
for checking which in our point of view is not correct", – mentioned
A. Poghosyan.
He also told a very curious thing. Who could imagine that the 5
kg weight is 0.5 kg in reality? It seems that it’s absurd and the
difference will be noticeable, but if you buy 40 kg potato or 50 kg
sugar they put several weights on the scale, one of which is 0.5 kg
instead of 5, and you can guess the result.