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:
Approving Amendments to the Executive Regulations for the Patents and Industrial Models System: a new step that reinforces intellectual property in the KSA
In a strategic step that reinforces the position of the KSA in the field of intellectual property, the board of directors for the Saudi intellectual property authority approves the amendments for the executive regulations of the patents and models system for the integrated departments and industrial models and plants. Those amendments are approved by decree number (02-3-2024), corresponding to 10th Rabea Alkhar, 1446H, that aim to improve the intellectual property environment to agree with the international standards and reinforce the KSA compliance with its international treaties.
The amendments include approving the amended form of the executive regulations according to document number (IPL-Doc-SAIP:01-585), and defining the date of those amendments enforceability upon the completion of the regulations related to joining Geneva treaty for international registration of industrial drawings and models.
Also, the financial charges resulted from the international research service and primary international inspections are amended, so that the charges are defined to be 200 Swiss francs, which are paid to the international office of the international intellectual property organization. It is expected that the amendments will reinforce the KSA compliance with the international standards in the field of intellectual property.
The amendments are enforceable on all applications for protection upon the regulations enforceability, including the applications filed before the enforceability where no total or primary inspection report has been made.
That amendment represents a critical step for supporting creators in the KSA, when a transparent legal framework is provided to ensure their rights and to protect their creativity according to the highest international standards. The Saudi Intellectual Property Authority works for reinforcing an excellent legal environment that encourages creativity and economic development. That contributes in achieving the vision of the KSA 2030.
Through those amendments, the Saudi Intellectual Property Authority develops the systems and the regulations that reinforce the protection of the intellectual property in the KSA that creates a motivating and attractive environment for investment.
As the application of those amendments reflects the KSA compliance to develop an integrated legal environment, that ensures the intellectual property rights and suits the international development in that field, that will provide a larger protection of creations and new projects.
Approving the Technical Regulations for Dry Gas Tanks
The Saudi Authority for specifications, measurements and quality approves the technical regulations for dry gas tanks at the meeting of its board of directors number (202) dated to the 3rd October, 2024. The regulations aim at reinforcing the safety of transporting dry gas in the KSA and ensuring its compliance with the approved international standards
The technical regulations for dry gas tanks include:
Scope and Application:
The regulations are applicable on the dry gas tanks of all sorts (compressed or liquefied), they define the requirements for designing, manufacturing, inspecting, and testing those tanks according to the approved standard specifications.
Objectives:
The regulations aims at ensuring public safety and health at the processes of transporting dry gas, providing effective mechanisms for evaluating compliance with the approved requirements.
Undertakings of suppliers and operators:
Suppliers and operators should comply with the technical and administrative requirements of the regulations, including having the required licenses, the presence of an integral quality control system, and having an ISO certificate.
Performing the conformity assessment:
Suppliers should have a conformity certificate from approved authorities in the Saudi Authority for Specifications, measurements and quality, as the dry gas tanks are regularly inspected according to the approved compliance standards.
Safety Standards
Tanks should be equipped with security equipment to protect them from fires, including equipping them with fire equipment to ensure safety from fires.
Sanctions and legal actions:
The regulations include strict sanctions against violations related to non-compliance with the technical and the administrative requirements, including withdrawal of violated products from markets and terminating the compliance certificates.
Next steps:
Binding compliance: All stakeholders of dry gas tanks should comply with the regulations in 180 days from the date of publishing in the official gazette.
Situation correction period: Suppliers and operators should correct their situations according to the new requirements not later than 365 days from the date of publishing.
the authority asserts the necessity of compliance of all concerned authorities with these regulations to ensure the safety of dry gas transport processes in the KSA and to ensure the compliance with the highest technical and international
Legal Information
Article number eighteen of the labor regulations
In a case that the establishment ownership is transferred to a new owner, or in a case of any change in its regulatory form whether by merge or division, etc. the employment contracts shall remain enforceable in the two cases, and service shall continue.
For the rights of labor resulted from the period prior to that change, including wages, end of service gratitude, which are due on the date of property transfer, or other rights, the successors and the assignees shall be responsible for them collectively. In a case of individual establishments transfer for any reason, the successors and the assignees shall agree on transferring all preceding rights or labor to the new owner by the labor written approval, while in a case that the labor doesn’t agree, he shall claim terminating his contract and providing him with his dues from the successors.
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