The Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) will begin implementing the new public hygiene Law No.18 of 2017 starting from February 1. The municipal inspectors and employees armed with judicial power from general monitoring sections will start reporting violations, issuing warnings and punishing according to the new law.
The ministry has prepared a media campaign and a comprehensive awareness program to educate people through print, electronic media and social networking sites in a bid to raise awareness among the public as they have important role in maintaining public hygiene in the cities and to protect the environment. The forms for booking violations, issuing warning and undertaking were also revised to be upgraded as per the new law.
Director of General Cleanliness Department at MME, Safar Al Shafi, said that the promulgation of the law has been enacted in a timely manner. There is an all-inclusive and unparalleled constructional and developmental renaissance in the country which requires amending the law, he added.
Source: Government of Qatar