In order to implement the “priority to purchase national products”

The government agrees to update the “industry regulation” law

Standardization of procedures, controls and fees for operating national factories.

Emirates today

The Council of Ministers issued Resolution No. (5/18 F) for the year 2022 regarding recommendations adopted by the Federal National Council on the topic “The Role of the Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology in the Development of National Industry,” which included the government’s approval to speed up the updating of Federal Law No. (1) of 1979 regarding Regulating industry affairs, provided that the updated draft law includes defining preferential advantages for national products over foreign industrial products, such as reducing energy prices and fees, and obligating government agencies to apply preference in purchasing national industry products, as well as activating a platform that attracts global companies advanced in technology to expand the scope of use industries based on high-tech in national industries.

In detail, the Federal National Council received a letter from the Ministry of State for Federal National Council Affairs, stating that the government approved 18 parliamentary recommendations adopted by the Council during its discussion of the topic “The Role of the Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology in the development of the national industry,” in accordance with the approved plans of the Ministry, and that no The implementation of these recommendations does not entail any additional financial costs.

The list of recommendations approved by the government included six main axes, the first of which was the “legislation” axis, where it was approved to “accelerate the modernization of Federal Law No. (1) of 1979 regarding the regulation of industrial affairs, provided that the updated draft law includes defining preferential benefits For national products over foreign industrial products, such as reducing energy prices and fees, and obligating government agencies to apply preference in purchasing national industry products to ensure legal protection for them to enhance the added value of national industries, as well as unifying procedures, controls and fees for operating national factories, and the advantages and exemptions granted to them at the level In addition to setting specific and clear mechanisms and implementation plans for financing and supporting innovation-based industrial projects and research.

According to the text of the letter, the parliamentary recommendations approved by the government included in the “policies and strategies” axis, “giving importance to ensuring that there is no duplication and overlap between federal and local government agencies and the private sector by developing a roadmap to achieve integration in the implementation of the objectives and programs of industry strategies, in coordination and follow-up of the Industry Development Council, Achieving self-sufficiency and exporting some industries that represent national security, such as the health, pharmaceutical and food industries manufactured within the country, in coordination with the relevant authorities, as well as the necessity of integrating efforts at the local and federal levels to adhere to the system of impact assessment issued as part of the implementation of Federal Law No. (24) for the year 1999».

In the “technology and innovation” axis, the government agreed on recommendations to “activate a platform that attracts international companies advanced in technology to introduce and educate industrial project owners about advanced technology in industry and to develop national industries based on high technology and expand their adoption in national industries, and support entrepreneurs in the field of technologies.” advanced, and qualifying human cadres specialized in the applications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to find highly skilled professional cadres to fill new jobs in accordance with the areas identified by the UAE Strategy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution 2017.

The government also approved a recommendation in the “National Industries Support” axis, regarding “the development of supply chain services in industrial areas and dedicated facilities and infrastructure in food clusters and the establishment of a database and platform for analyzing products linked to each other according to supply chains and making them available to investors.” It also agreed on a number of recommendations. In the axis of "Encouraging Emirati Exports", it included "the establishment of a specific mechanism to ensure the effective application of the state's benefit from the advantages granted by the economic agreements concluded by the state with various countries of the world, especially those related to the development of specific mechanisms to control the extent to which the state benefits from the preferential advantages offered by economic agreements. The state’s existing commercial trade, promotion of national industries, and export of industrial products at rates that exceed current rates.”

Emirates platform manufactures

The decision of the Council of Ministers on the recommendations of the Federal National Council on the topic “The role of the Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology in the development of the national industry” included the approval of a parliamentary recommendation to “update and activate the electronic platform (Emirates is making) provided that it includes guides for export opportunities available outside the country, and in what Ensures the provision of a unified database for the industrial sector at the federal level.

The recommendation included “enabling the platform to analyze products linked to each other according to the supply chain, in addition to harmonizing product coding, product specifications and procedures for qualifying suppliers from factories in companies, making industrial statistics available through data panels and developing a mechanism to provide advisory services and assistance in solving export obstacles, as well as, supporting the sector The industrial sector through the implementation of a program to stimulate the national industry to reduce the electricity bill for projects that have a high level of automation, productivity and economic impact on the country.

Expansion of high-tech-based projects in national industries.

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