The most important legal news in local newspapers
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Both ministry of commerce and ministry of industry and mineral resources announce the application of amendments to the precious minerals and stones law
Both ministry of commerce and ministry of industry and mineral resources announce the application of the cabinet decree number (269), for amending some articles of the precious minerals and stones law, from the date of the 11th of October, 2025. The decree includes transferring all authorities related to supervising, controlling and licensing the industry of precious minerals and stones from the ministry of commerce to the ministry of industry and mineral resources. They refer to the issuance of the executive bylaw for the law by a decree from the minister of commerce in an agreement with the minister of industry and mineral resources. It includes detailed regulations for the law.
Upon those amendments, the ministry of commerce is concerned with the following:
- Supervising the trading of precious minerals and stones and their artworks.
- Supervising the pained, coated and inlaid items and controlling sale windows.
The ministry of industry and mineral resources supervises manufacturing those products and industrial establishments’ control.
The amendments establish that no practice of precious minerals and stones shall be made unless with an industrial license from the ministry of industry and mineral resources. Also, the ministry of commerce- in an agreement with the ministry of industry and mineral resources- obliges artworks holders to use distinguished stamping signs which are registered according to the regulations.
The amended bylaw includes a number of articles, as it cancelled considering the regular calibration as a correct one when there is a confirmed shortage that doesn’t exceed four shares. It also, necessitate attaching an identification tag at each artwork where there are precious stones to include the required disclosure information, it prohibits advertising any products of precious minerals or stones before stating the weight, the calibration and the price of each product according to its nature.
Also, the bylaw obliges the establishments to issue a special invoice when purchasing from individuals, to include the name of the seller, number of his ID, his nationality, in addition to the applicable requirements for selling to customers. It also necessitates allocating a space at the shop to show the used and the ones where artificial or separate diamond is used.
In the same context, ministry of industry and mineral resources invites anyone who practices any activity that is related to precious minerals and stones industry without an industrial license to have an industrial license through “industry” website not later than six months from the date of the cabinet decree number (269) enforceability.
Both the ministry of commerce and industry and the ministry of mineral resources assert their application of the law and its executive bylaw for upgrading the competence of the precious minerals and stones sector in the KSA, reinforcing customer protection, and supporting products quality in the markets.
Ministry of municipality and Housing assert the mandatory of municipality licenses and warns from practicing violating activities
Ministry of municipality and housing asserts the mandatory of issuing municipality licenses before practicing any commercial or constructional activity in cities, asserting that practicing any activity without a regulatory license represents an immediate violation that exposes the site responsible to sanctions and fines up to closing the site and halting some services at the high risk sites.
The ministry explains that the municipality license is not a formality, but it is a regulatory undertaking that keeps the rights of owners and investors, and provides a clear regular framework that ensures the continuity of activity, and reinforces market control and beneficiary confidence, asserting that practicing the activities outside that framework results in disciplining actions and represents a direct threat to community safety and the civilization, stating that non-licensed activities expose their owners to fines up to (50,000) riyals according to the violation type, in addition to closing and halting some services at high risk sites, when they threaten public safety.
Ministry of municipality and housing extensive its efforts for raising awareness of individuals and the holders of commercial and housing activities, property developers and contractors to undertake with municipality licenses before commencing any activity as a direct liability of the beneficiary and a basic pathway for protecting investments from sanctions, regulating activities in cities and ensuring providence of services to the population through a secure and controlled framework.
Duties of the ministry include following up a number of activities that include: (works of construction, building restoration, commercial activities, delivery services, tobacco shops, and fossil works), while treating violating sites according to the approved regulatory procedures from fines to closing when required, for protecting creatures, public facilities and passerby.
The ministry asserts the continuation of field control works through controllers, municipalities, professional teams and modern techniques of control that support direct follow up to sites, asserting that treating violations is made immediately according to the regulations, and the application of sanctions and closing represents a current and continuous procedure for protecting public safety and preserving a regular civilized scene.
Ministry of municipality and housing invites all beneficiaries to issue the regular license through “balady” website before practicing any activity, to avoid sanctions and closing. It also invites community members to notify about any unlicensed activity through the notification center (940), asserting that notification is a shared responsibility that contributes in stopping violations and treating their sites according to the law.
It is worth noting that “Balady” website is one of the digital platforms of the ministry of municipality and housing, that allows beneficiary nationals, residents and businessmen to achieve their municipality services electronically, for example issuing and renewing municipality licenses, inquiring about commercial activities, reporting, following up treatments without the necessity of visiting the facilities of departments or municipalities.
Ministry of municipality and housing approves the manual for reserving and withholding materials and tools
Ministry of municipality and housing approves the manual for reserving and withholding materials and tools in a regulative step to unify the municipality policies and procedures, and raising the level of compliance to laws and regulations, for preserving public safety and health, and reinforcing quality of life in the Saudi cities.
The ministry states that approving the manual is made according to the sanctions bylaw for municipality violations and the related executive rules, to be as unified regulatory guidelines in all departments and municipalities; it also reinforces supervision work, prevents contrasted procedures, and achieves justice and transparency in law enforceability.
The ministry states that the manual regulates the procedures of reserving and withholding violating materials and tools, and defines the mechanisms of transferring and keeping them at allocated locations where the required technical requirements are found, while the violator shall pay the costs of transporting and guarding, and shall ensure not using them during the withholding term, in addition to defining the cases that require temporary precaution closing of facilities to preserve public safety and health.
The ministry states that the manual includes the procedures for the disposal of invalid materials and tools or the dangerous ones, under the supervision of professional technical committees, while the violator shall pay the related costs. Also, it organizes the mechanisms for retrieving them upon the payment of fines and applying the regulatory requirements, and allows selling the withheld materials and tools in a public auction when their owners don’t retrieve them.
The manual includes detailed mechanisms that consider different cases, such as bid size materials and tools which are difficult to transport, where only samples of them are taken for inspection at the site or the facility according to the conditions. Also, the manual asserts immediate treatment of fast-damaging materials by transporting their samples directly to the concerned authority not later than twenty four (24) hours from the date of withholding them, while a defined time for inspection shall be allocated not later than three days, and allocated locations for keeping materials and tools shall be defined until the completion of the required tests.
The manual points out that the precaution closing of the shop or the facility shall not exceed three subsequent days, and shall not be extended at any condition, to re-open the site in a case of not confirming the justification of continuous closing, to ensure secured procedures and protection of public health.
This step is made through the efforts of the ministry of municipality and housing to reinforce the enforceability of laws and regulations, and developing its controlling and regulative tools, to support the Saudi Vision 2030 for improving the civilized scene, reinforcing compliance, and achieving higher levels of safety and quality of life.
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