Pełczyńska-Nałęcz hits pseudometers and developers. “Consumers lost billions”

For almost 30 years, developers have been selling “pseudometry” to Poles, i.e. a meter under the partition walls – said the Minister of Funds and Regional Policy Katarzyna Pełczyńska -Nałęcz. For this reason, she wrote a letter to the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection with a request to take action.

The minister in the Monday post on platform X assessed that “the rule remain surprisingly powerless in this matter.” “Even hundreds of thousands of consumers fell victim to these dishonest practiceswho lost a total of billions of PLN for developers, “wrote Pełczyńska -Nałęcz.

For this reason, she sent an official letter to the president of UOKiK. In a letter – as she passed – she asks to take actions that guarantee the application of the law in terms of calculating the usable area of ​​apartments and enable the victims to effectively investigate their rights. “Soon we will go with a legal solution, which will put an end to such practices once and for all,” the minister announced.

The minister posted photos of the magazine. Referring to legal acts, she stated that the development agreement should include an indication of the method of measuring the usable area of ​​a dwelling or a single -family house. “In practice, there are situations in which law regulating this matter is not applied by developers,” she noted.

She pointed out that the current standard of calculating the surface does not include the horizontal cross -section of the internal partitions (also partition walls inside the premises. As she explained, “the surface under the inner partitions does not meet the criteria necessary to include it in the usable area.”

“In practice, developers include in the usable area of ​​the premises area under the partition walls. They do this despite the position of the Polish Committee for Standardization, which did not recognize partitions as easily dismantled,” noted Pełczyńska -Nałęcz.

She explained that this means that the consumer pays the price for the premises with a real area less than the one specified in the contract, which in its opinion is contrary to the Act on counteracting unfair market practices.

“It is reasonable to state that all the conditions are to be considered that the practice of developers described above violates the collective interests of consumers,” emphasized the minister. She asked the President of UOKiK about whether these practices were the subject of analysis and proceedings conducted by UOKiK and what the result of these activities was. “I also ask you to take action that guarantee compliance with the law when determining the usable area of ​​the apartments and the possibility of effectively investigating their rights by victims” – appealed to the minister of funds. (PAP)

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