The Business Administration Legislation Department

The Business Administration Legislation Department works to achieve the requirements of Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 2030, which is a road map for Abu Dhabi economic progress, which seeks to build an open business environment that is characterized by transparency and modern investment legislation, through assessing solutions to legal and legislative problems facing various sectors, providing consultations and proposing recommendations at the Department’s internal level and reviewing all amended legislation based on the Department’s recommendations, in addition to proposing initiatives for legislations development and completing draft laws and new amended policies and consultations requests from the Executive Council and external parties.

Department’s Objectives:

1. Seeking to fulfil the local and federal government’s expectations in the field of legislations development.
2. Completion of new and amended draft laws as required by the Executive Council, local departments and federal entities.
3. Submitting initiatives and recommendations pertaining to the development of legislations and business environment improvement.
4. Participating in defining legislations that can be introduced, nullified, amended or added to as required to achieve the necessary legislative environment to encourage local investment, performance enhancement, economic development and investment climate improvement.
5. Participating in expressing an opinion on the legislations, regulations and resolutions referred to the Department.
6. Providing legal advice to the various sectors in the Directorate regarding legal issues referred thereto.

Department’s Tasks:

1. Ensuring that policies and procedures for business administration legislations are in place to regulate commercial activities.
2. Following-up the examination of all local commercial community’s issues and concerns, easing the burdens on investors and overcoming the obstacles they face.
3. Ensuring the development of legislations that aim at the development of economic wheel and productive sectors.
4. Ensuring the availability of a legislative, legal and business administration database on sisterly and friendly countries to develop business administration legislations and work on creating a legal database that includes local legislations.
5. Providing solutions to industrial and commercial sectors’ problem, proposing the necessary recommendations and procedures.
6. Participate in setting the Emirate's legislative strategies and policies and the mechanisms required for that.
7. Participating in defining the legislations that can be issued, nullified, amended or added to as required to achieve the necessary legislative environment to encourage local investment, performance enhancement, economic development and investment climate improvement.
8. Introducing legislations necessary to cover the legal gap in economic activities existing or required to be created in the state, by benefiting from the experiences of developed states, taking into account local specificity.

Link to all economic legislation and laws

Link to money laundering legislation exclusively