Qatar Consumer Protection Law — Law No. 8 of 2008

Qatar's core consumer-protection and product-safety framework is a single instrument: Law No. 8 of 2008 on Consumer Protection, published in the Official Gazette (Issue 7) on 24 July 2008, replacing the earlier 1999 anti-fraud law. Unlike Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Qatar has not split consumer protection and product safety into separate statutes — this one law (31 articles) covers both. It guarantees consumers' rights to health and safety, accurate product information, and free choice of quality goods, and obliges suppliers not to sell defective, expired, or substandard products, to label goods correctly, and to bear liability for harm caused by a product defect. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MOCI) enforces the law, investigates complaints, and has authority to order market recalls of unsafe products and impose administrative and criminal penalties (Chapter Four, Sanctions). Qatar separately ratified the GCC's Unified Law for Combating Commercial Fraud via Law No. 20 of 2019.