BEIRUT: Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said Wednesday that the ministry will remove all illegal billboards by the end of the year without any discrimination, the National News Agency reported.

According to the agency, Charbel chaired a meeting in the ministry with the committee tasked with removing illegal billboards. Charbel said that was the last meeting on putting an end to the random spread of illegal billboards which continue to create chaos in the city.

He added that the law to remove all illegal billboards would be implemented across the country and called on advertising companies to abide by the laws.

The ministry “will remove every unlicensed billboard as well as every licensed billboard which violates its term of use as soon as its license expires, maximum by the end of the year,” Charbel said.