Strictly implement the direction of the Director of the Market Management Department of Hau Giang province on strengthening the management and supervision of the area to promptly detect, prevent and strictly handle violations in the business of textbooks with counterfeit labels and packaging. After a long time of monitoring and supervising subjects with signs of violations, with professional skills, civil servants assigned to manage the area determined the location of gathering, storing and trading textbooks without house numbers, without hanging signs, hidden deep in a deserted residential area with few people passing by on Road No. 1, Tay Do EcoPark residential area, Tan Phu Thanh commune, Chau Thanh A district, Hau Giang province, showing signs of gathering, storing and trading a large number of textbooks with counterfeit labels and packaging of Vietnam Education Publishing House.
Inspection team counts and classifies infringing goods
On July 15, 2024, after reviewing the content of the report of Market Management Team No. 1 regarding the case as very complicated, the nature and seriousness of the violation, the Market Management Department of Hau Giang province issued a document directing Market Management Team No. 1 to proactively develop a plan and scheme, coordinate with the Economic - Environmental Police Department of the Provincial Police, the Vietnam Education Publishing House in Can Tho, relevant functional forces and local authorities to effectively organize and implement inspections of the collection, storage and trading locations of textbooks at Road No. 1, Tay Do EcoPark residential area, Tan Phu Thanh commune, Chau Thanh A district, Hau Giang province.
Accordingly, on July 16, 2024, Market Management Team No. 1 coordinated with the Economic - Environmental Police Department of the Provincial Police, the VietnamEducation Publishing House in Can Tho, and local authorities to inspect the location of gathering, storing, and trading textbooks at Road No. 1, Tay Do EcoPark residential area, Tan Phu Thanh commune, Chau Thanh A district, Hau Giang province.
The results recorded at the time of inspection showed that business activities at the location of gathering, storing, and trading textbooks without a house number or signboard on Road No. 1, Tay Do EcoPark residential area, Tan Phu Thanh commune, Chau Thanh A district, Hau Giang province were operating normally. The owner of the facility was identified as Mr. Ng.PL, residing in Thoi Tan B, Truong Thang commune, Thoi Lai district, Can Tho city.
Working with the Inspection Team, Mr. L. could not provide the Inspection Team with a Business Registration Certificate. Here, the Inspection Team noted that Mr. L.'s facility stored goods that were textbooks with signs of counterfeiting product labels and packaging of the Vietnam Education Publishing House. Mr. L. also could not provide invoices and documents related to the goods. The total number of textbooks at Mr. L.'s facility was 1,210 boxes. To ensure the time and progress of the inspection, the Market Management Department of Hau Giang province mobilized all civil servants of the departments and teams under the Market Management Department of Hau Giang province and the Vietnam Education Publishing House in Can Tho to coordinate and support in sealing, temporarily holding and transporting them to the Department's specialized warehouse to conduct inventory and classify the quantity and type.
By the afternoon of July 18, 2024, after 2 days of checking and classifying quantity and types, the Inspection Team recorded 79,103 textbooks of all kinds from grades 01 to 12 with signs of counterfeiting product labels and packaging of the Vietnam Education Publishing House. The total value of the goods calculated according to the price listed on the textbooks is 1,375,413,000 VND.
The case is under further review and processing in accordance with the law.
In preparation for the new school year 2024 - 2025, the Market Management Department of Hau Giang province recommends that parents and students when choosing to buy textbooks to study should choose reputable business locations in the province, and pay attention to the front printed with "Vietnam Education Publishing House", the back of the textbook cover has an anti-counterfeit stamp.
Also according to the Director of the Market Management Department of Hau Giang province, in the coming time, continuing to implement the directive documents of the General Department of Market Management, the Provincial People's Committee, the Market Management Department of Hau Giang province directs the Market Management Teams to strengthen the management of the area, assign civil servants to implement professional measures to organize and monitor businesses with signs of violations in the fields of anti-smuggling, trade fraud and counterfeit goods in the province, protecting consumer rights for organizations and individuals doing business honestly.
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