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Saudi Arabia - Country Profiles

Saudi Arabia: Basic Law of Government
Date of text: 04 February 1992

Policies

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Action Plan 2022-2025.
Date of text: 2022
Updated First Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC).
Date of text: 2021
National Aquaculture Policies and Practices.
Date of text: 02 April 2018
Saudi National Water Strategy 2030.
Date of text: 01 January 2018
Kingdom Saudi Arabia National Action Plan on Combating Antimicrobial Resistance.
Date of text: 01 January 2017

Legislation

Agricultural and rural development

Cabinet Resolution No.431/2021 on the approval of the Agriculture Law.
Date of text: 24 March 2021
Agricultural Development Fund System 2023, issued by Royal Decree No. M/30 (1445 Hegira).
Date of text: 05 September 2023
Organic Food Products Clearance Conditions and requirements.
Date of text: 0000
Resolution No.270 of 2019 organizing the National Center for Research and Development in Sustainable Agriculture (Sustainability).
Date of text: 30 January 2019

Cultivated plants

Law of Patents, Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits, Plant Varieties, and Industrial Designs promulgated by Royal Decree No. M/27 of 2004.
Date of text: 17 July 2004
Cabinet Decision No.152 of 2020 approving the Law of the National Center for the Prevention and Control of Plant Pests and Animal Diseases.
Date of text: 20 October 2020
Royal Decree No.M/106 of 2018 issuing the Cabinet Resolution No.555 of 2018 approving the Act of dealing with Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
Date of text: 11 July 2018
Royal Decree No.M/67 of 2006 (1427 Higra) issuing the Cabinet Resolution No.256 of 2006 approving the Pesticides Act of Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf.
Date of text: 05 December 2006
Cabinet Decision No.173 of 2006 (1427 Higra) approving the Act on fertilizers, nutrients and soil amendments of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf.
Date of text: 08 August 2006

Environment

Royal Decree No.M/165 of 2020 issuing the Environment Law.
Date of text: 10 July 2020
Cabinet Resolution No.35 of 2003 on the trade of agricultural fertilizers, issued by Royal Decree No. M/4 of 2002 (1423 Hegira).
Date of text: 20 April 2002
Royal Decree No. M/3 of 2021 issuing the Waste Management System.
Date of text: 14 August 2021
Executive Regulation for the protected areas.
Date of text: 2020
Executive Regulation for the Prevention and Remediation of Soil Pollution.
Date of text: 2020

Fisheries

Implementing Regulations of the Act on Fishing, exploitation, and protection of the marine life in the territorial waters of Saudi Arabia issued by Resolution No.21911 of 1988.
Date of text: 07 November 1988
Regulations of Aquaculture Project License Issuance.
Date of text: 2014
Guidelines for issuing Aquaculture Projects Licenses.
Date of text: 2014
Regulation of fishing, exploitation, and protection of the marine life in the territorial waters of Saudi Arabia, issued by Royal Decree No. M/9 of 27 Rabi Awal 1408 (18 November 1987).
Date of text: 18 November 1987
Fishing Regulation in Saudi Arabia.
Date of text: 0000

Food and nutrition

Royal Decree No. M/1 of 2014 issuing Ministerial Resolution No.475 approving the Food Law.
Date of text: 30 October 2014
Food and Drug Authority Act, issued by Royal Decree No. M/6 of 2007 (1428 Hegira).
Date of text: 31 January 2007
Rules and requirements to be followed when importing meat and its products into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Date of text: 0000
Conditions and Requirements for Importing Food to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Date of text: 0000
List of public health requirements for food preparation, processing and sale shops related to public health.
Date of text: 2019

Forestry

Executive Regulation For Logging For the Environmental Law issued by the Royal Decree No. (m/165) 2020.
Date of text: 2021
Forests and Pastures Act issued by Cabinet Resolution No.247 of 2004 - Royal Decree No.M/55 of 2004.
Date of text: 18 October 2004
Implementing Regulation of Forest and Pasture Act.
Date of text: 1978

Land and soil

Executive Regulation for the Prevention and Remediation of Soil Pollution.
Date of text: 2020
Executive Regulation for the Environmental Law for Vegetation Cover Development and Combating Desertification.
Date of text: 0000

Livestock

Cabinet Decision No.152 of 2020 approving the Law of the National Center for the Prevention and Control of Plant Pests and Animal Diseases.
Date of text: 20 October 2020
Royal Decree No. M/60 of 2014 issuing Resolution No.377 approving the Feed System.
Date of text: 21 July 2014
Veterinary Quarantine Act of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, issued by Royal Decree No.M/26 of 2003 (1424 Hegira) and Cabinet Resolution No.109 of 2003 (1424 Hegira).
Date of text: 31 July 2003
Regulation implementing the Livestock Act issued by Royal Decree M/13 of 2003 (1424 Hegira).
Date of text: 2003

Sea

Statute of Maritime Delimitation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Royal Decree No. 6 of 2011).
Date of text: 2011
Executive Regulation for Sustainable Management of the Marine and Coastal Environment.
Date of text: 2020
Royal Decree on the Baseline in the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea.
Date of text: 2010
Royal Decree No. M-27 of 7 September 1968 - Project regulations relating to ownership of Red Sea resources.
Date of text: 1968
Decree No. 33 of 1958 defining the Territorial Sea of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Date of text: 16 February 1958

Water

Water Law 2020.
Date of text: 02 July 2020
Water Act (within the Saudi Vision 2030).
Date of text: 25 April 2016
Executive Regulation for the Environmental Law for the Protection of Aqueous Media from Pollution.
Date of text: 2020
Royal Decree No.M/49 of 1974 issuing the Cabinet Resolution No.1109 of 1974 approving the system of the Saline Water Conversion Corporation.
Date of text: 07 September 1974
Executive Regulations of the Water Law for regulating service provision activities.
Date of text: 01 July 2020

Wild species and ecosystems

Game Law, issued by Royal Decree No.M/8 of 1999 (1420 Hegira).
Date of text: 30 July 1999
Executive Regulation for the protected areas.
Date of text: 2020
Executive Regulation for the Environmental Law for Vegetation Cover Development and Combating Desertification.
Date of text: 0000
Royal Decree No. M/66 of 2015 issuing Ministerial Resolution No.429 of 2015 approving the Act on the Protected Zone of the Natural Primordial Wildlife.
Date of text: 05 August 2015
Royal Decree No. M/9 of 2000 (1421 Higra) issuing the Cabinet Resolution No.54 of 2000 approving the Act on Trade in Endangered Wildlife Species and their Products.
Date of text: 09 June 2000

Miscellaneous

Mining Investment Law approved by Resolution No.634 of 2020 issued by Royal Decree No. M/140 of 2020.
Date of text: 09 June 2020
Royal Order No.A/65 of 2011 establishing the National Anti-Corruption Commission.
Date of text: 18 March 2011
Private Sector Participation Law (PSP Law) of 2021.
Date of text: 17 March 2021
Cabinet Resolution No.262 of 2020 issuing the Electricity Law.
Date of text: 31 December 2020
Dry gas and liquid petroleum gas distribution Law for residential and commercial purposes issued by Royal Decree No. (M/126) of 2017 and amended by Royal Decree No. (M/112) of 2022.
Date of original text: 24 August 2017 (09 June 2022)

International Agreements

Mémorandum d’entente dans les domaines de la protection du consommateur et du contrôle des produits et des services entre le Gouvernement de la République algérienne démocratique et populaire et le Gouvernement du Royaume d’Arabie Saoudite, signé à Ryad, le 15 novembre 2016.
Date of text: 15 November 2016
Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Belarus and the Government of the Kingdom Saudi Arabia on cooperation in the field of science and technology.
Date of text: 18 May 2016
Agreement on delimitation of maritime borders between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Date of text: 08 April 2016

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