In his capability as Chairman of The Govt Council of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, issued Govt Council Decision No. (85) of 2025 regulating petroleum merchandise buying and selling actions within the Emirate of Dubai.
The decision helps Dubai’s imaginative and prescient for financial and environmental safety by regulating actions such because the import, manufacture, storage, transport, sale, and provide of petroleum, according to international greatest practices. It goals to curb unlawful buying and selling, mitigate its affect, and safeguard lives, property, and public security.
Provisions of this decision apply to all entities engaged in these actions throughout Dubai, together with particular growth zones and freezones together with the Dubai Worldwide Monetary Centre, apart from firms exempted by a UAE Cupboard determination.
In response to the decision, the Dubai Supreme Council of Power is chargeable for overseeing petroleum buying and selling actions within the emirate. Its duties embody setting guidelines on competitors and market focus, approving technical requirements and procedures for buying and selling, storage, transport, sale, and use of petroleum, and guaranteeing compliance with well being, security, and environmental necessities.
The Council additionally points, renews, and amends permits based mostly on suggestions from the Petroleum Buying and selling Regulation Committee, determines the quantity and areas of gasoline stations according to Dubai City Plan, approves requirements for transport autos, storage services, and family gasoline cylinders, together with security valves and seals, and identifies areas inside the emirate the place the buying and selling of petroleum merchandise is prohibited, in coordination with the related authorities.
The decision prohibits any individual from partaking in petroleum buying and selling actions within the emirate with out authorisation from the licensing authority. Such actions could solely be carried out after the supply of the petroleum supplies has been verified and documentation confirming acquisition from a Council-approved firm has been submitted.
It additionally units out the kinds and validity intervals of permits, the procedures and necessities for acquiring them, guidelines for transporting petroleum supplies between the emirates, establishing retail gasoline stations, and importing petroleum supplies.
The decision requires petroleum buying and selling entities in Dubai to conduct solely their authorised exercise, register within the Petroleum Buying and selling Register maintained by the Ministry of Power and Infrastructure, and commerce solely supplies from Council-approved sources that meet technical requirements, until the imported supplies are supposed for manufacturing or mixing functions.
Entities should show costs clearly, observe security and technical requirements for storage, transport, and dealing with, and procure prior Council approval for any allow adjustments. They need to report any incidents inside 24 hours and preserve information of fabric sources for not less than 5 years.
In response to the decision, violations of petroleum buying and selling guidelines incur fines, that are doubled for repeated offences inside one 12 months, as much as a most of 1 million dirhams.
The Supreme Council of Power, in coordination with the related authorities, could cancel permits, quickly shut services for as much as 6 months, revoke industrial licences, and seize, destroy, or re-export petroleum supplies and autos that don’t adjust to the foundations, in accordance with relevant regulation. Autos present in violation of this decision could also be seized, with disposal carried out according to Legislation No. (23) of 2015 in regards to the disposal of seized autos in Dubai.
The decision stipulates that the violator should take away the reason for the violation, restore the injury, and restore the scenario to its unique situation at his personal expense inside the set deadline. If he fails to take action, the Council could perform the work at his expense, with an added 25% as administrative prices. The Council’s estimate of those prices is ultimate.
All authorities and non authorities entities within the emirate should absolutely cooperate with the Council and supply any help it requires.
The decision permits the Supreme Council of Power in Dubai to delegate any of its obligations to public or non-public entities by formal agreements. Present operators should adjust to the decision inside one 12 months from its efficient date, with the choice of a one 12 months extension if accredited by the Chairman of the Council. The Chairman will challenge the choices wanted to implement the decision.
Any decision or provision that conflicts with this decision is annulled.