The most important legal news in local newspapers
We in Ben Arafa Law Group Consulting & Legal Legitimacy L.L.C likes to provide you of the most important legal news in the local newspapers for this week, which related to your business and commercial, labor and procedural activities, and accordingly we provide you with the most important news as follows:
Registration of more than 21, 000 violations to the residence and labor laws in a week
Launching New Services at “absher” Website for Facilitating Procedures
Saudi Ministry of /interior announces adding four new electronic services at “absher” website that include: updating photo of residents, terminating commercial register of a husband/ follower, separating a follower, and the travel service through Salwa gate. The aim of those services is to facilitate the procedures for the beneficiaries and decreasing the need of a personal revision, that saves time and reinforces the accuracy of official treatments performance.
Legal consequences
It provides an authenticated official means for performing legal treatments without the need of repeated personal revisions.
It decreases mistakes and provides electronic authentication which is legally enforceable.
It reinforces digital transformation in the KSA and ensures quick procedures and reliving probable legal disputes.
It encourages dependence on official digital means in legal and administrative treatments.
Geographical indicators protection for national products
The KSA approves geographical indicators protection system with the aim of protecting the products related to defined locations of imitation or misleading use, such as national dates and oils. The system includes strict sanctions up to imprisonment for a month to three years, and fines up to a million riyals. It aims at protecting commercial and intellectual property rights for national products. The system shall be enforceable officially 180 days after its publication in the official gazette. It includes all authorities and companies which operate in the related fields to those products.
Legal consequences
Protecting national products from imitation of unauthorized use
Imposing fiscal and criminal sanctions on the violators to relieve infringement
It obliges companies and investors to update marketing strategies and compliance to the new regulations.
It encourages the development of national trademarks and protecting intellectual property rights.
Approving New Fiscal Control Law in the KSA
The KSA approves the new fiscal control law and it was published in the official gazette in December, 2025. It is expected to be enforced from the 11th of April, 2026. The law established a new framework of controlling public money and covers public and private institutions and the public fiscal authorities, with advanced mechanisms that depend on analyzing risks and assessment of performance.
Legal consequences
It imposes a developed system of fiscal control according to the international standards.
It obliges the authorities that are covered by the control to update the systems of fiscal reporting and compliance with the transparency standards.
It reinforces accountability and lessens fiscal violations in both public and private sectors.
It grants control authorities strong powers for collecting information and enforcing sanctions on violators.
Legal Information
According to the Saudi law, documenting contracts and agreements is made electronically through official websites, such as “Qiwa”, or the real estate registers, in a condition of their legal enforceability against others. Each non-documented contract or agreement shall not be enforceable at justice in a case of dispute, even if both parties agree in writing on it.
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