Doha hosts GCC consumer protection meeting on Sunday

The committee of undersecretaries and chiefs of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states’ consumer protection agencies will hold its fifth meeting in Doha on Sunday to discuss consumer protection issues relating to the trade cooperation committee’s decisions to promote and support GCC joint action.
A Ministry of Economy and Commerce press statement released Saturday said that the meeting’s agenda would include discussing the unified consumer protection law and its implementing regulations.
HE Director of the Department of Consumer Protection and Commercial Fraud Combat Sheikh Jassim bin Jabor Al-Thani said that these meetings aimed at supporting the GCC joint efforts to develop legal tools and launch initiatives that will protect the GCC consumers against all that may affect their rights, in addition to combating commercial fraud and other harmful practices to consumer rights.