LegalEyes is a legal and regulatory intelligence service from LexDesk360 covering ten MENA markets and six topics. Automated agents collect from official sources, an adversarial verification gate tests every item, and each item is rated act now, act this cycle or monitor.

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No. LegalEyes is an intelligence product. It tells you what has changed, who it catches and when you must act. For advice on your own facts, contact LexDesk360 counsel.

Automated agents read every official gazette, regulator notice and public consultation across the Gulf, Egypt and the Levant, every day. Each item is then put through an adversarial verification gate whose default answer is no.

What reaches you is short, sourced to the instrument, and carries one of three signals. Act now. Act this cycle. Monitor.

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Grace period on fifty fully localised administrative support professions lapses in early OctoberAct now. Approximately 5 October 2026. Saudi Press Agency N2553750 · official

Top up tax registration opens with a transitional deadline of 30 NovemberAct this cycle. 30 November 2026. Cabinet Decision No. 142 of 2024 · FTA Decision No. 12 of 2026

Merger filing bites at AED 300 million of relevant market turnover with a ninety day standstillMonitor. In force. Cabinet Decision No. 3 of 2025 · Ministry of Economy and Tourism

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English governs. Arabic and French carry it into the room.

Every item is written and stays authoritative in English. The headline, the obligation and the action are also rendered in Arabic and French, so the brief goes to a board, a works council or a regional office without a translation request.

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Businesses with annual revenue of AED 50 million or more must appoint an accredited electronic invoicing service provider by 30 October 2026. The 1 January 2027 go live date has not moved. Only the appointment date has.

Ministerial Decision No. 244 of 2025, as amended by the Ministry of Finance on 10 May 2026.

العربية

يجب على الشركات التي تبلغ إيراداتها السنوية 50 مليون درهم أو أكثر تعيين مزود خدمة معتمد للفوترة الإلكترونية بحلول 30 أكتوبر 2026. لم يتغير موعد بدء التطبيق في الأول من يناير 2027، وإنما تغير موعد التعيين فقط.

النص الإنجليزي هو المرجع

Français

Les entreprises dont le chiffre d’affaires annuel atteint 50 millions de dirhams ou plus doivent désigner un prestataire accrédité de facturation électronique avant le 30 octobre 2026. La mise en service du 1er janvier 2027 n’a pas été reportée. Seule la date de désignation a changé.

Le texte anglais fait foi.

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What we did not send you this month.

Each of these is circulating as settled fact. Each failed the standard: an official government source, being a gazette, legislation portal, ministry, regulator or state news agency, or where no official text is yet published, a top tier news report, confirming the instrument, the substance and the date. We do not repeat commentary. We wait until the state has said it.

Egypt

Data protection licensing becomes enforceable on 1 November 2026 and licence decisions take ninety working days.

The executive regulations are listed in commercial databases, but the gazette text was not retrieved from an official source and no top tier media report confirmed the date or the decision period.

Held · official text pending

Bahrain

Bahrain has introduced a ten per cent corporate income tax from 1 January 2027.

Not enacted. Referred to the legislative authorities in December 2025, consulted in February 2026, never gazetted.

Withheld · draft only

Qatar

Global minimum tax registration closes on 30 November 2026.

The tax authority published no calendar date at all, only a three month window from portal activation. The figure traces to a secondary publication that assumed a start date.

Withheld · debunked

United Arab Emirates

The personal data protection executive regulations are out, with compliance due on 1 January 2027.

False. The executive regulations to Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 remain unissued after almost five years.

Withheld · false

Egypt

The executive regulations to Labour Law No. 14 of 2025 have been issued.

No consolidated regulation exists a year after the law took effect. Egypt is implementing through rolling ministerial decrees.

Withheld · not issued

Jordan and Oman

Data protection enforcement positions, notification windows and penalty levels.

Neither could be confirmed against an official source or a top tier media report.

Withheld · unverifiable

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Grace period on fifty fully localised administrative support professions lapses in early October

Corporate tax return and payment fall due for the year ended 31 December 2025

Accredited service provider for electronic invoicing must be appointed by 30 October

Advertiser permit enforcement is live and commissioning organisations must check every advertiser holds a permit

Top up tax registration opens with a transitional deadline of 30 November

Second half Emiratisation increment takes the cumulative target to ten per cent of skilled roles

Wage protection threshold rises to eighty five per cent and the grace period is removed

Capital markets entities must regularise their position by 1 January, including free zone firms marketing onshore

Sports centres and gyms move to fifteen per cent localisation

Data protection enforcement is active with forty eight violation decisions issued

Every commercial advertisement featuring an influencer requires the Mawthooq licence

Carbon disclosure deadline for non bank financial institutions extended to 31 December

Merger filing bites at AED 300 million of relevant market turnover with a ninety day standstill

New anti money laundering decree law and its executive regulations are both now in force

Climate law is in force with no emissions threshold, but implementing decisions remain unissued

Data protection executive regulations remain unissued almost five years after the law

Telemarketing rules carry the sharpest marketing penalties in the country

Electronic invoicing wave twenty five pulls in taxpayers above SAR 187,500

Minimum local content becomes a condition of the mandatory list in government procurement

English governs. Arabic and French carry it into the room.

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This month, live

Three choices. The preview is real.

Who is reading

Which markets

Which topics

Grace period on fifty fully localised administrative support professions lapses in early October

Corporate tax return and payment fall due for the year ended 31 December 2025

Accredited service provider for electronic invoicing must be appointed by 30 October

Advertiser permit enforcement is live and commissioning organisations must check every advertiser holds a permit

Top up tax registration opens with a transitional deadline of 30 November

Second half Emiratisation increment takes the cumulative target to ten per cent of skilled roles

Wage protection threshold rises to eighty five per cent and the grace period is removed

Capital markets entities must regularise their position by 1 January, including free zone firms marketing onshore

Sports centres and gyms move to fifteen per cent localisation

Data protection enforcement is active with forty eight violation decisions issued

Every commercial advertisement featuring an influencer requires the Mawthooq licence

Carbon disclosure deadline for non bank financial institutions extended to 31 December

Merger filing bites at AED 300 million of relevant market turnover with a ninety day standstill

New anti money laundering decree law and its executive regulations are both now in force

Climate law is in force with no emissions threshold, but implementing decisions remain unissued

Data protection executive regulations remain unissued almost five years after the law

Telemarketing rules carry the sharpest marketing penalties in the country

Electronic invoicing wave twenty five pulls in taxpayers above SAR 187,500

Minimum local content becomes a condition of the mandatory list in government procurement

English governs. Arabic and French carry it into the room.

What we did not send you this month.

Free every month. Counsel when it matters.

Every month

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Sourced to the state

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