Ministry of Commerce and Industry launches industrial services platform
THE Ministry of Commerce and Industry on Tuesday announced the launch of the Industrial Services Platform on the Ministry’s website. This platform is an electronic interface that supports industrial sector investors, providing them with e-services throughout the various stages of the industrial project, to save time and effort, and dispense the need to visit the Ministry’s headquarters.
This initiative stems from the Ministry’s keenness to improve the business services system in Qatar, as well as to facilitate and speed up the delivery of services for factory owners. Moreover, the said initiative contributes to encouraging the investment and industrial climate in Qatar. It also instils a culture of innovation in the institutional work environment.
As per the Ministry, the Industrial Services Platform includes 15 main services at the first stage. Services for the establishment stage include services of issuing, renewing, and writing off an industrial project initial approval while for the construction stage services include services of issuing, renewing, and writing off licensing to establish an industrial project. For the operation phase services include services of issuing, renewing, and writing off licensing to operate an industrial project (certificate of registration in the Industrial Registry).
Additionally, the platform offers many other services, including customs exemption service for an industrial facility; requesting power supply at subsidized prices; requesting increasing the industrial project production capacity; changing the location of the industrial project; stopping the industrial project; and factory data extractor.
The Ministry indicates that obtaining an industrial project initial approval requires one day (if all documents are submitted via the platform), such that the extract validity period is one year. Obtaining an industrial project initial approval requires filling out the relevant application form through the Industrial Services Platform, and having an active commercial register.
As for the service of renewing the industrial project initial approval, applicants obtain it upon applying, to receive a renewal valid for one year. Obtaining it requires filling out the relevant application form via the platform. With regard to the service of writing off the initial approval, the Ministry explained that it is obtained immediately upon applying, and requires filling out the relevant application form via the platform. Concerning the industrial project establishment license service, the Ministry indicates that it requires three days, and the extract validity period is one year. Obtaining the said service requires filling out the relevant application form via the platform, submitting the project data (raw materials, machines, and products), and attaching the environmental permit issued by the Ministry of Environment, and the notice of the initial plot allocation for the project, or a lease contract/certificate of ownership of the construction site of the factory.
For the service of renewing the license to establish an industrial project, the details provided by the Ministry indicate that the service can be obtained immediately upon applying, and the renewal validity period is one year. Obtaining the said service requires filling out the relevant form via the platform. Likewise, applicants can write off the license to establish the industrial project upon applying for the service, after filling out the relevant form via the platform.