Vik Darchinyan: “I love fighting frequently”

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.