Major General Benone Gabriel Duduc, with the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (IGSU), announced that the station for LPG distribution in Crevedia, Dambovia County received three fines in 2020, totalling 50,000 RON, and the General Assembly of Shareholders issued at that time a decision on the closure of that working point.
He presented the history of controls carried out at that company, highlighting that the safety measures underlying the issuance of the fire safety authorization in 2011 were not respected and that an unapproved pump was used.
In July 2020, ISU finds the loss of validity of the fire safety authorization and also finds the use of an unapproved pump for transferring LPG from one tank to the other and applies the contravention sanction of 10,000 RON. Moreover, after finding the loss of validity of the fire safety authorization, the Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (ISU) notified the Prefect Institution, the Trade Registry Office, the County Council, the State Inspectorate in Construction, the Environmental Protection Agency and Crevedia Town Hall. The IGSU representative mentions that a new unannounced control was carried out on September 28 and it was found that "the working point is still operating". A reason why the company is fined again, this time with 30,000 RON. For another contravention, an unapproved tank into which LPG is transferred the company is fined another 10,000 RON. All in all, the company is fined 50,000 RON.
The company announces the ISU Dambovita in October 2020 that the working point has been shut down and adds the General Assembly of Shareholders decision and the the ascertaining certificate issued by the Trade Registry Office, added the major general Duduc.
When asked why it was not discovered that the company was operating clandestinely, Benone Gabriel Duduc said that the IGSU has no role in authorizing activities other than those of LPG distribution in vehicles.
"Concerning its operation in a different form, activities other than those of distribution of LPG in vehicles no longer makes the object of our licensing," he said.
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