Morocco Prepares for Ramadan: Government Ensures Market Stability and Consumer Protection

This meeting made it possible to assess the measures and arrangements taken and which are likely to ensure the monitoring of the supply situation of the national market and the prices of basic necessities. But also, as a second point on the agenda, it was a question of "strengthening the interventions of the services in charge of consumer control and protection and the coordination mechanisms between the administrations".

A press release from the ministry stresses that during this meeting it was decided to "strengthen daily control operations as the ideal means to ensure regular monitoring of the market situation". But also, to "face, with the necessary rigor, all practices contrary to the law and all recorded offenses and to sanction any failure to comply with the laws in force".

To achieve all these defined objectives and ensure a pleasant Ramadan for consumers, several ministries have, on royal instructions, "coordinated their actions, in order to mobilize control services, to "guarantee the transparency of commercial transactions" and "to deal with all illegal practices that undermine price stability".

These are the Ministries of Agriculture, Maritime Fisheries, Rural Development and Water and Forests, Industry, Investment, Trade and the Digital Economy, Health as well as the Minister Delegate to the Head of Government in charge of General Affairs and Governance. The press release specifies that the meeting also stressed the reactivation during this holy month of the national telephone number "5757", which allows citizens, in the different regions of the Kingdom, to directly contact the permanent cells created at the level of the prefectures and provinces, to receive their complaints and remarks on the supply of markets.