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The Ministry of Economy launched the National Economic Registry

Status

In force

Issuing Authority

Effective date

XX.XX.XXXX

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https://

The National Economic Registry (NER) is a federal platform representing a unified database of enterprises and business licenses across the country. The UAE's National Economic Registry was named "Growth".

 

Growth offers services to a wide range of users, in particular business owners, investors, and research centers. 

 

Benefits of the platform:

- allows to request any business license;
- provides access to investment opportunities in different economic sectors;
- provides information on more than 2,000 types of economic activities;
- helps to conduct research and analysis on market trends. 

 

The full list of Growth services is available at https://www.growth.gov.ae/G2C/.

 

The National Economic Registry integrates federal and local government data. For this purpose, a single economic reference number (ERN) is used. The data is updated regularly.

 

According to the opinion of the Minister of Economy, Growth targets to achieve the following results within 2 years:

- to integrate 100 federal and local government agencies and licensing authorities;
- to increase the number of services up to 500;
- to reduce the time period t...