How to Distinguish Fuel Stations Caught Shortchanging Customers: A Project

The Office for Coordination of Inspections within the Prime Minister's Office proposes to install a sign reading "We have been fined for shortchanging" at fuel stations that have been penalized for shortchanging customers, for a duration of one month. This draft decision has been introduced on the unified website for the publication of legal acts, reports Hetq.

The justification for the project states that consumer rights protection is not being performed at the necessary level as consumers lack tools for public oversight and the ability to access information regarding the previous activities of fuel stations when utilizing liquid gas, gasoline, natural gas, and diesel fuel stations.

Therefore, if this project is adopted, consumers will be informed that a particular station has been fined for shortchanging in the past.

Following the discovery of shortchanging at retail points for liquid fuels, compressed natural gas, or liquefied petroleum or hydrocarbon gases, and after applying administrative responsibility as prescribed by law, the inspection authority will affix the sign "We have been fined for shortchanging" on the dispensing towers or fuel dispensing equipment within five days of the day the administrative act becomes unappealable, in a legible and visible area for the driver, for a period of one month. This project will only come into legal force if approved by the government.