On September 18, 2018, President Abdel Fatah el Sisi ratified
the new Consumer Protection Law, which had been approved by
parliament in April of this year. The law is to be implemented in
three months, with the executive regulations due to be produced
within three months. Its key attributes are protecting consumers
from unsafe products and implementing the rights of citizens to
allow them to know the details of the services they use, or the
goods they consume.
The law starts by setting out some relevant definitions:
- Consumer: all natural and legal
persons to whom a product is offered
- Persons: natural persons and legal
entities, including all types of companies and economic entities,
associations, unions, organizations, enterprises, financial
groupings or grouping of individuals however incorporated
