Yesterday, the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Investment Promotion published Ministerial Decision 718/2024 Issuing the Quality Mark Regulation that repeals the old Omani Quality Mark Regulation of 2011. The new regulation governs the controls for obtaining an Omani quality mark licence, sets the obligations of the licensee, and determines the quality monitoring and follow-up processes, fees, and administrative penalties.
A key change in the new regulation is that it no longer requires the application for the Omani quality mark to be an Omani entity. Furthermore, the scope to which the quality mark can be obtained has been expanded from applying only to goods to applying to services and processes as well. There is also a new provision in the regulation that gives the ministry the authority to make a requirement for certain establishments to obtain a quality mark as a pre-requisite for offering certain goods.
It is also worth noting that the new regulation also provides additional details regarding the required information for the application, and creates a two-step process for obtaining the licence involving a preliminary approval followed by a final approval that is issued after inspecting the quality management system of the applicant.
The new regulation also adopts technology by mandating that a QR code is included along with the quality mark logo and requiring that the ministry publishes the details of all products licensed through a dedicated government platform.
The new regulation enters into force next month. You can read it in full in English on the link below: