The Minister of Economy and Trade in the Government of National Unity, Mohammed Al-Huwaij, discussed in a meeting yesterday, Saturday, with the economic and trade observers in the eastern, southern and western regions, a number of issues related to monitoring, in the presence of the Municipal Guard and the Bakers Syndicate.

During the meeting, the minister touched on the decisions of the Council of Ministers regarding the transfer of competencies to the Ministry of Local Government and the consequences thereof and the confusion that it may cause to the work of the monitoring and confusion in the procedures, stressing that the matter will be dealt with the Minister of Local Government and the need to continue monitoring within the Ministry of Economy and Trade until the procedures are settled from Administrative and legal aspects.

The attendees also reviewed the mechanism for following up on the implementation of Minister of Economy and Trade Decision No. 508 of 2022 regarding the prohibition of practicing all retail or wholesale commercial activities on non-Libyans with the relevant authorities. The minister also called on the female observers to prepare reports that include a study of the agricultural, industrial and service resources in their affiliated areas and to set an action plan for their development.

Al-Huwaij stressed the need to strengthen the role of consumer protection, combat commercial fraud, follow up on the local market and the flow of goods, determine the level of services, and limit investment opportunities in all sectors to achieve economic diversification, stressing the importance of starting to establish commercial markets in all regions of Libya, urging supervision and regulation of the competent authorities with the participation of chambers of commerce and the inventory and digitization of commercial activities.

The minister instructed the economic and trade observers to form a team to the west, east and south to activate the role of judicial control officers and conduct legal calibration for all commercial and service activities in coordination with the relevant authorities.