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| When the stalls resume their activity they will do so with food and basic necessities, trying to guarantee non-manipulation by part of consumers | The weekly markets of the municipality of Murcia will restart their activity from next Monday, May 18, with the exception of La Fama, Santa María de Gracia and El Palmar, which will open later.

Thanks to the good understanding that exists between the administration and the association, and the joint effort to which they have pledged, their reopening is thus one week ahead of the first agreement between the City Council and the Association of Street Vendors of the municipality of Murcia, in the one that Phase II had been proposed as the start of the activity.This is the agreement reached today by the councilor for Commerce, Markets and Public Roads, Juan Fernando Hernández, and the technicians of the Department with the leadership of the Association of Street Vendors of the municipality of Murcia.When the stalls resume their activity next Monday they will do so with food and basic necessities, seeking to ensure that they are not handled by consumers, to which other types of products such as clothing and footwear will be added in subsequent weeks.A template reinforcementThe mayor Juan Fernando Hernández has asked the councilor responsible for Personnel, Marco Antonio Fernández, to reinforce the staff with 25 more people to be able to go about reopening 100% of the weekly markets in the municipality.Guarantee the standardIn this sense, the head of Commerce, Markets and Public Roads has influenced the important effort that must be carried out by the personnel of the Market Inspection service to try to distribute the space occupied by the markets and ensure that the limitation is not overcome 25% ordered by the BOE of the usual or authorized positions, as well as an influx of less than a third of the usual capacity, and the area enabled for the exercise of this activity may be increased, but subject to the aforementioned limitation.According to the BOE, it will be the municipalities that will establish distance requirements between posts and market delimitation conditions in order to guarantee safety and distance between workers, customers and passers-by.The regulation also requires promoting card payment or other means by which the use of cash is avoided, cleaning and disinfecting the dataphone after each use, as well as the sales terminal.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia