Qatar’s Ministry of Economy and Commerce (MEC) has announced that it is carrying out intensive inspection campaigns before and during Eid Al Fitr. 

The initiative targets various commercial activities across Qatar, including shops selling Eid accessories, reported Gulf Times.

The violations that will be checked will include missing price tags, non-compliance with vegetables and fruit price bulletin, offering unlicensed promotions, misleading weights, missing invoices, charging customers more than the advertised price, missing country of origin labels, failing to display product descriptions and give bills in Arabic and posting two price tags on the same product, according to Qatar Tribune.

The activities covered by the campaigns will include men’s and women’s accessories shops, readymade garments and children’s clothing, perfumes and accessories, shoes, textile shops for men and women, tailoring shops, gold and jewellery stores as well as fruits and vegetables shops, stores selling sweets, salons for men and women and car washing centres, according to the ministry.

The inspection campaigns come within the framework of the ministry’s Ramadan initiatives under the theme#Aqal_Min_Al_Wajeb.

The ministry has urged merchants and retail outlets to comply with laws and ministerial circulars and to provide high-quality products and services to consumers while cautioning against taking advantage of events and holidays to raise prices and exploit consumers.