Problems relating to Trade and Investment on Saudi Arabia
24. Indigested legislation, abrupt changes |
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| (1) Ambiguous Frequent Changes in Legislative Schemes, Rules and Regulations | - In many cases, changes in legislative schemes, rules and regulations take place abruptly by ministerial decrees. Moreover, announcements are made in haphazard manner so that even legal counsels are kept unaware of changes effected in rules and regulations. For example, Announcements concerning improvement of SAGIA and trade licence were notified by e-mail to enterprises holding licences, while the change in the formula for calculating the Saudization ratio was effected by a partial change in the description on the heavy-thick "manual" in Arabic language disclosed at the website of Ministry of Labour and Social Development (MLSD). | - It is requested that GSA takes step to: -- promulgate the protocol for effecting changes uniformly in regulations, making promulgation in Official Gazette of Saudi Arabia (Umm Al Qura) as conditions for enforcement, and -- making available, after certain grace period, opportunities for exchange of dialogues with industrial organisations. |
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