Nghe An: Revoking the right to use the Certificate of General Agent for Petroleum Business for 2 enterprises

Pursuant to Decision No. 1039/QD-UBND dated April 17, 2021 of the People's Committee of Nghe An province on the establishment of an interdisciplinary inspection team to inspect petroleum business activities in Nghe An province, after nearly 2 months of direct inspection, the team has inspected 21petrol retail stores and businesses.

Through inspection, 4 establishments were fined 110 million VND; at the same time, the right to use the Certificate of eligibility to act as a General Agent for petroleum business for 02 enterprises was revoked for 1 month.

In addition, the Delegation coordinated with Market Management Team No. 7 - Market Management Department of Nghe An province to inspect and handle 02 cases of fake quality E5 Ron 92 gasoline in the area.Con Cuong district; including 01 administrative case of 23 million VND, 01 violation case is being transferred to Con Cuong District Police for investigation.

The inspection team took gasoline samples to measure quality, Photo: Thanh Phuc

According to the report of Nghe An Market Management Department, in the first 6 months of 2021, the Department inspected 137 petroleum business establishments, of which 50 cases were handled, with an administrative fine of 374 million VND.

The main violations include: Not posting sales hours, not registering sales hours with competent authorities, violating regulations on signs,fake quality gasoline business,violating regulations on conditions of General Agent for petroleum business.

The interdisciplinary team measured gasoline quality with a measuring device and made a record of handling the violating facility. Photo: Thanh Phuc

Mr. Nguyen Van Huong - Director of Nghe An Market Management Department said: "In the face of the complicated developments of the Covid-19 epidemic and the potential risk of spreading the disease in the community in Nghe An province, the Provincial People's Committee recently issued Official Dispatch No. 3991/UBND-KT on the temporary suspension of the petroleum business inspection activities of the Interdisciplinary Inspection Team. After the Covid-19 epidemic situation in the province is under control, the team will continue to perform its duties to promptly detect, handle, and resolutely fight against smuggling, mixing, trading in fake petroleum, poor quality petroleum, and commercial fraud in the petroleum business"./.