The Ministry of Economy and Commerce in cooperation with the Ministry of Municipality and Environment and Ministry of Interior, in a surprise inspection in Msheireb area, caught 11 street vendors selling products without licence.
The offenders have been transferred to authorities for legal action.
The joint inspection raid was aimed to ensure compliance of suppliers and vendors with the provision of Law No 5/2015 regulating activities of commercial shops, industrial places and others similar, and vendors.
In addition to their compliance with the Ministerial decision 243/2016 on terms and references regulating issuance of vendor’s licensing.
The inspection campaigns come within the framework of the Ministry’s efforts to monitor markets and commercial activities in a bid to crack down on vendors' illegal activities and to protect consumer rights.
The Ministry has urged consumers to report violations to the Consumer Protection and Anti-Commercial Fraud Department.
It also stressed that it would not tolerate any violations of the provision of the law and would intensify its inspection campaigns to crackdown on violations.
