The operational goals of DIMEA concern the following:
a) Carrying out checks to deal with illegal trade during the production, storage, handling and marketing of products on the market and the provision of services.
b) Control for compliance with the provisions of law 4177/ 2013 (GG Α’ 173) and law 4497/2017 (GG Α΄ 171), during the exercise of commercial activity for products and services, and combating phenomena of misleading consumers at all stages of the handling and trading of goods, as well as the provision of services, the determination of violations, the drafting of the relevant control report, and the imposition of the sanctions provided for by its bodies.
c) Control of all legal documents related to the handling and marketing of products or the valuation of services provided, as provided for in article 13 of law 4177/2013 (GG A’ 173) and compliance with the provisions of article 65 and par. 1 of article 66 of law 4446/2016 (GG A’ 240).
d) Establishment of mixed control groups at local, regional or national level and their coordination, for the control of the market, the suppression of illegal trade and the supervision of the implementation of the rules for the trading of products and the provision of services, with the participation of the services that carry out control work in accordance with article 51 of law 4497/2017, the General Directorate of the Economic Crime Prosecution Body, the Municipal Police, as well as the services of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food and its supervised entities, the Labor Inspection Body (SEPE) and the Control Departments of the Ministry of Health when the subject of their competences arises.
e) Compliance with the digital data management system, which is a central point of reference for complaints and providing information on matters of illegal handling of goods and provision of services, and whose data is considered confidential on grounds of public interest. Also, maintaining a database of information collected and disseminated by and to all agencies involved, with market control and dealing with illegal trade, including illegal e-commerce.
f) Obligation to transmit information or complaints related to their responsibilities, to the services involved, except for complaints about products subject to excise duty and consumption tax.
g) Preparation of studies, researches and analyses to capture the existing situation of the market, but also formulating proposals to improve the effectiveness of its controls.
DIMEA and its bodies also have the possibility, at any time, to request the intervention of the locally competent Prosecutor, in particular when, during the control in its field of competence in a private or public area, natural persons or representatives of legal entities refuse to allow the controllers to enter or obstruct the control by unfair means.
At the same time, the services of the decentralized administrations that develop control activity in matters of illegal trade and compliance with the rules of handling and trading of products and provision of services, are obliged to respond immediately to the requests of DIMEA and of its bodies for the participation of their staff and their assistance in their work due to competence.
