The Department of Economic Development in Abu Dhabi reported that it closed 13 establishments and violated 56 other facilities, while it warned 282 establishments and confiscated 27 counterfeit, adulterated, and contrary to the established standards for quality, during intense inspection campaigns implemented during last May, identifying eight reasons behind the closure of those facilities Violation and warning.
Lack of commitment
The Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Affairs explained in a report issued recently, and Emirates Today obtained a copy of it, that the closures are due to non-compliance with the instructions and conditions for exercising the activity issued by them, while violations are due to the use of the facility's headquarters or part of it for housing, and not to comply with the circulars issued by The department, in addition to imposing additional fees or services on consumers without justification, and engaging in additional activity unrelated to the establishment’s license, in addition to providing hookahs or selling any type of tobacco to those under the legal age.
The report added that the warnings directed to the establishments are due to the non-writing of the currency on the price label, and the failure to adhere to the terms and conditions prescribed for the facility's headquarters.
Inspection campaigns
The department stated that it carried out closings, violations, and warnings through 20,624 intensive inspection campaigns during the past month, which included 523 rounds on shopping centers, 8,270 rounds on restaurants, along with 2,252 rounds on outlets, 4,520 rounds on vegetables and fruits stores, as well as 1118 rounds On pharmacies, 1805 rounds on sports clubs, women's salons and massage centers, in addition to 1166 rounds on exchange houses, and 752 rounds to verify the safety of health supplies, while the rest of the inspection campaigns were on various commercial facilities.
The department indicated that during these tours, more than 5667 publications were distributed to educate and educate consumers and workers in economic establishments operating in Abu Dhabi, including the circulars that were recently issued to implement precautionary measures to combat the spread of Corona virus infection.
Tightening control
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 and precautionary measures to combat the Corona infection, 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, which contribute to protecting consumer rights. Al-Balushi 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 sound commercial practices and issued circulars and conditions of work in the emirate, and to determine the prices of goods, products and services, and not to raise them without justification And ensure that the owners of these facilities do not use the current quarantine period in order to increase prices and burden consumers.
Volunteers
Al Balooshi indicated that a number of Abu Dhabi Economic employees were 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 Emirate of Abu Dhabi, in order to enhance the efforts of overseeing establishments, and adherence to fixed or announced prices, and to verify all data Prices, without imposing additional charges or services on the consumer.
Al-Balooshi called on commercial establishments and establishments to adhere to the implementation of the circulars issued by the department, especially preventive and preventive ones, to fight the repercussions of the infection of the Corona virus, 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.
Fines
It is noteworthy that the schedule of violations of economic activities issued by the department provides for warning of violating establishments in some cases, then imposing fines starting from 1000 dirhams and up to 60 thousand 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 If the violation is repeated more than four times.
8 reasons
Non-compliance with the instructions and conditions for the activity.
■ Using the facility's headquarters or part of it for housing.
Non-compliance with circulars issued by the department.
Imposing additional fees or services on consumers without justification.
■ Performing additional activity not related to the establishment's license.
Provide shisha or sell any type of tobacco to those under the legal age.
■ Do not write the currency on the price label.
Failure to comply with the terms and conditions prescribed for the facility's headquarters.
The closure of 13 facilities and 56 other violations in Abu Dhabi last month.