Ministerial Decrees Information
UAE ministerial decrees are formal instruments through which individual federal ministers exercise regulatory and administrative powers conferred by federal legislation. They are similar in function to ministerial resolutions, with the decree form typically reserved for matters of greater formality such as the issuance of executive regulations, the approval of major regulatory frameworks, and the formal designation of officials and committees. Like ministerial resolutions, they sit below federal laws, federal decrees, and cabinet resolutions in the hierarchy of norms.
The translations collected here include ministerial decrees issuing executive regulations under enabling statutes, decrees establishing committees and advisory bodies, decrees approving classification systems and standards, and decrees delegating signature and licensing authority. Read together with the underlying federal legislation on UAE laws in English, they give practitioners the full operative regulatory text.