The Department of Economic Development in Abu Dhabi reported that it carried out 45,000 inspection visits in the emirate last April, which resulted in the closure of seven violating facilities and the warning of 410 other facilities, in addition to the confiscation of 825 counterfeit and adulterated items.
And the department stated, in a report obtained by «Emirates Today», that those visits included several facilities, including shopping centers, outlets, groceries, restaurants, pharmacies, beauty salons, sports clubs, and money exchanges.
Inspection and control
In detail, the Department of Economic Development in Abu Dhabi carried out 45 thousand and 79 inspection and control visits to economic establishments in the emirate, during the past month, in order to follow prices and compel commercial establishments to comply with circulars.
The visits included shopping centers, outlets and groceries, vegetable and fruit shops, fish and restaurants, mobile carts and cafes, pharmacies, beauty salons, sports clubs, health supplies and an exchange.
In a report issued on the results of inspection and oversight visits during April 2020, and the Emirates Today obtained a copy of it, the department stated that during the tours, which included Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and Al Dhafra, seven breaching economic establishments were closed, and 410 other facilities were alerted, in addition to liberating 80 Violation, confiscation of 825 counterfeit, adulterated, and non-conforming pieces of specifications and standards in force in the country.
Awareness
The department added that during those visits, more than 14 thousand and 200 publications were distributed to educate and educate consumers, owners of establishments and workers, including the circulars that were issued recently to implement the precautionary measures to confront the new Corona virus.
The Undersecretary of the Department of Economic Development in Abu Dhabi, Rashid Abdul Karim Al Balushi, said that the department has tightened supervision and implemented inspection campaigns during the recent period, as part of preventive measures, in addition to its endeavors to ensure that owners of companies and institutions licensed to them adhere to the prices of specific goods and products, and reduce commercial fraud practices Contributes to the protection of consumer rights.
More campaigns
Al-Balooshi added that the department will continue to implement more campaigns and inspection visits on a daily basis on all commercial establishments in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, during the coming period, to verify its commitment to fixing the prices of goods, products and services, and not to raise them without justification, and to ensure that the owners of these facilities do not use the quarantine period Health care in order to increase prices and overburden consumers.
He pointed out that there are more than 30 employees in the department who have been registered as volunteers with inspection and oversight teams in the department, to cover the largest possible number of sales outlets and commercial stores at the level of the Abu Dhabi Emirate in order to enhance efforts to control the fixed or announced prices, and to verify all price data, from Without imposing additional fees or services on the consumer.
The necessity of commitment
Al-Balushi called on commercial establishments and establishments to adhere to the implementation of all circulars issued by the department, especially the preventive and precautionary ones to face the consequences of "Corona", and not to raise prices without justification, or monopoly of goods, which is an explicit violation, pointing out that in the event of any violation of this Concerning the violation will be filed according to the schedule of violations of the economic activities of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
Violations table
The schedule of violations of economic activities, issued by the Department of Economic Development in Abu Dhabi, provides for warning of the violating establishments in some cases, and then imposing fines starting from 1000 dirhams to 60,000 dirhams, according to the violation and its recurrence, according to the economic activity, and the penalty reaches the closure in relation to some Activities, in case the violation is repeated more than four times.
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Facilities were alerted last April.