13/12/2016
A meeting with members of the
trade committee of Asharqia Chamber
The Director General of the Ministry of trade and investment in the Eastern
Region Branch Abdulaziz Al Khaldi, said that the ministry is dealing firmly
with cases of covering up and commercial fraud and spots the markets and shops,
and organizes organization campaigns in a complementary way with the ministry
branches in the Kingdom, pointing that the difficulty lies
in the detection of these cases, as the branch of the ministry receives more
than 3,000 case per month, among business cases of fraud or covering up and are
dealt with according to the laws and regulations
Khaldi stressed in an interview recently with the trade committee of Asharqia Chamber on the ministry accuracy in
the application of the violations and punishments, as they are not issuing the violation
of the shop only after verification of the complaint, and under the supervision
of the branch management, to avoid any grievance and to avoid any malicious
reports, on the contrary, many of reports came through the reporting center and
clear violations are approved.
He pointed that most of the ministry services are provided automatically, and businessmen
ought to take advantage of them, without the need for a go to branches and
offices. He explained that the ministry, represented by the branch is keen to
find all the services needed by traders in their daily activity.
Khaldi added that electronic services via the ministry website that allows data
updates and modify records and also cancellations, but in some cases the person
in charged should attend, especially with regard to some of the other
government agencies procedures .. stressing the desire of the branch to
communicate with all the relevant authorities such as the department of customs,
ports and municipalities to make it easier for traders and solving everyday
problems.
Regarding the e-commerce and the need for laws to arrange the delivery dates
and sending, it is reported that the ministry has spotted many e-sales
channels, following up to spot the rest, and punishing violators of the regulations, and applying the
necessary punishments till the limit of
closing the website or account of the site.
As for the letters of support for the Ministry of Labor, Khaldi said
that the ministry used to transfer these
letters to the industrial sectors, after the separation of the industry from
trade ministry stopped this, for lack of specialty, and businessmen can go to related
agencies to ask for letters of support according
to the areas of the shops and its facilities and the general conditions of projects If the
systems they have allow that.
