{"id":1280,"date":"2008-09-11T11:03:35","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T09:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ulclegal.com\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:11:06","slug":"sale-of-goods-and-services-for-excessive-prices-to-be-made-punishable-by-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ulclegal.com\/en\/sale-of-goods-and-services-for-excessive-prices-to-be-made-punishable-by-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Sale of goods and services for excessive prices to be made punishable by jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"abstract\">\r\n\r\nSelling goods or providing services for prices higher than the\u00a0 legally-permitted maximum, if such a price limit has been imposed by a\u00a0 generally binding law, will be punishable by jail as of December 1.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nThe measure was proposed in an amendment to the Criminal Law drafted by the Justice Ministry of the Slovak Republic which was sent for its second reading by MPs on September 10, 2008.\r\n\r\nThe proposed amendment strengthens elements of the Slovak legal code ensuring consumer protection. \u201cAt the same time, it is a reaction to the possible, and in some cases already observed, impact of preparation for adoption of the euro in Slovakia on increasing of consumer prices of goods and services\u201d, the ministry says. The ministry also warns that denying consumer rights by using business practices which would be considered unfair in any circumstances will be punished by imprisonment from six months to three years. Such sanctions will also be applied to those giving orders to apply unfair business practices.\r\n\r\nAlso on September 10, an amendment to the Commercial Code, an amendment to the law on courts, and an amendment to the law on fees to preserve patents were sent for their second readings.\r\n\r\n(Source: TASR; September 10, 2008)\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1216\" height=\"672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ulclegal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ulc-inarticle-1280-sale-of-goods-and-services-for-excessive.avif\" alt=\"Gavel and crossed-out inflated price tag with handcuffs emphasizing legal punishment for excessive pricing.\" class=\"wp-image-23828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ulclegal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ulc-inarticle-1280-sale-of-goods-and-services-for-excessive.avif 1216w, https:\/\/www.ulclegal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ulc-inarticle-1280-sale-of-goods-and-services-for-excessive-300x166.avif 300w, https:\/\/www.ulclegal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ulc-inarticle-1280-sale-of-goods-and-services-for-excessive-1024x566.avif 1024w, https:\/\/www.ulclegal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ulc-inarticle-1280-sale-of-goods-and-services-for-excessive-768x424.avif 768w, https:\/\/www.ulclegal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ulc-inarticle-1280-sale-of-goods-and-services-for-excessive-480x265.avif 480w, https:\/\/www.ulclegal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ulc-inarticle-1280-sale-of-goods-and-services-for-excessive-992x548.avif 992w, https:\/\/www.ulclegal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ulc-inarticle-1280-sale-of-goods-and-services-for-excessive-1200x663.avif 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1216px) 100vw, 1216px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selling goods or providing services for prices higher than the\u00a0 legally-permitted maximum, if such a price limit has been imposed by a\u00a0 generally binding law, will be punishable by jail as of December 1. The measure was proposed in an amendment to the Criminal Law drafted by the Justice Ministry of the Slovak Republic which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ulclegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ulclegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ulclegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ulclegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ulclegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ulclegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23842,"href":"https:\/\/www.ulclegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/23842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ulclegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ulclegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ulclegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ulclegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}