The applicant can go to the Economic Development Department to complete the legal procedures and pay the applicable fees to have the licence issued after obtaining all the required approvals from the competent authorities. The required documents may vary according to the nature of the activity to be practiced and the legal form of the facility.

The general conditions to practice economic activity:
• Complying with the applicable laws and regulation in the UAE.
• Not carrying out any acts that would affect the society's security and safety.
• No one is allowed to practice any profit activity without obtaining a licence.
• Complying with the provisions of the Islamic laws.
• Not carrying out any type of indecent games or activity.

 

 

• It is completely prohibited practice any gambling activities.
• Complying with any future law by relevant governmental and official authorities.

Conditions related to the licensee:
• The licence applicant should be at least 21 years old.
• The applicant should not have a licence expired more than one month ago.
• The applicant should fulfill all the conditions related to the activity to be practiced.

Conditions related to the legal form:
- Establishment: the facility owned by a natural person to practice economic activity (commercial, industrial or professional) in Umm Al-Quwain and whose personality is not separate from that of its owner to whom its financial liability is related, considering the person responsible for all the facility's financial obligations towards third parties. The establishment should take one of the following legal forms:
• Individual establishment (owned by a citizen).
• Individual establishment (owned by a citizen of the Gulf Cooperation Council GCC).
• Individual establishment (owned by a foreign investor who should have an Emirati service agent).

- Company: the company in which the number of partners does not exceed 50 and is not less than 2. Each one of them is only accountable for his/her share in the capital and the partners' shares should be owned by virtue of negotiable instruments. The company should take one if the following legal forms:
• Limited liability company.
• Joint-stock company.
• Private Joint-stock company.
• Public Joint-stock company.
• Partnership company.

- Branch: a branch of a main facility (a company or an establishment) registered in Umm Al-Quwain, in another emirate or in any foreign state. Each branch belonging to a company having several branches is entitled to carry out various activities as long as such activities are included in the original licence of the main company. The branch takes one of the following legal forms:
• A branch of a local establishment of individual ownership (registered in Umm Al-Quwain).
• A branch of a local establishment of individual ownership (registered in another emirate).
• A branch of a local company (registered in Umm Al-Quwain).
• A branch of a local company (registered in another emirate).
• A branch of a gulf company.
• A branch of a gulf company (with a foreign investor).
• A branch of a foreign company.