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Circulars and Announcements Related to Businesses

 

Circulars and announcements on legislative or procedural matters relating to businesses regulated by DDA. The Authority encourages businesses to regularly monitor the circulars and announcements and to comply with their requirements.

  • Registration and Licensing
  • Planning and Development
  • Others
Registration and Licensing
Registration and Licensing
Circular 618: Waiver of Penalties for Late Corporate Tax Registration 13/05/2025
Attention regarding Corporate TAX LAW under DDA Free Zone jurisdiction 27/06/2024
Circular 451: Ejari 16/10/2023
Circular 443: Dubai Chamber of Commerce Certification Programme 04/08/2023
Circular 439: Ejari Submission Deadline Extended 25/07/2023
Circular 436: Mandatory Submission of Ejari Certificate 04/07/2023
Circular 423: Reminder – Deadline for Submission of Audited Financial Statement 17/11/2022
Circular 421: Submission of Audited Financial Statement in Compliance with the DDA Private Companies Regulations 2016 19/09/2022
Circular 393: Economic Substance Notification – Deadline June 30 2021 22/06/2021
Circular 384: Updates on Precautionary Measures and Guidelines 11/02/2021
Circular 370: Consumer Rights 12/11/2020
Circular 369: Economic Substance Regulation – Important Update  05/11/2020
Circular 359: Economic Substance Regulations (“ESR”) 27/06/2020
Circular 358: Economic Substance Regulations (“ESR”) 04/06/2020
Circular 357: Ultimate Beneficial Owner (“UBO”) 04/06/2020
Circular 344: Measures In View of the Outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) 24/03/2020
Circular 327: Concerning Correction of Legal Status and Documentation in Compliance with the Private Companies Regulations 2016 15/08/2019
Circular 323: Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (“UBO”)s 16/06/2019
Circular 319: Pensions Scheme – UAE Employees 27/05/2019
Circular 316: Permit for Food and Beverage Services During Ramadan 22/04/2019
Circular 315: Free Zone Limited Liability Companies (FZLLCs) – Compliance with the Private Companies Regulations 2016 15/04/2019
Circular 311: Dubai Development Authority Commercial License renewal – Online Portals 26/02/2019
Circular 310: Free Zone Limited Liability Companies (FZLLCs) – Compliance with the Private Companies Regulations 2016 23/01/2019
Circular 307: DCCA to Dubai Development Authority 06/01/2019
Circular 302: 2018 Licensing Categories Decision 04/12/2018
Circular 291: Articles of Association for an FZLLC (“AOA”) 02/10/2018
Circular 284: Online R&L Services 29/07/2018
Circular 283: Director and GM appointments in FZLLCs 08/07/2018
Circular 282: Commercial Licenses issued by DCCA 04/07/2018
Circular 276: Online R&L Services 23/05/2018
Circular 274: “Original” Commercial License 15/05/2018
Circular 271: Enhanced compliance with Federal Law No.4 of 2002 Regarding Anti-Money Laundering and Combatting Financing of Terrorism 28/01/2018
Circular 266: Compliance with the Dubai Creative Clusters Private Companies Regulations 2016 (the “PCR”) 08/01/2018
 Introduction of VAT in the United Arab Emirates 13/11/2017
Dubai Creative Clusters Private Companies Regulations 2016 – Requirement for Company Documentation 10/09/2017
Planning and Development
Planning and Development
Circular 624: Occupational Health and Safety measures during summer months 16/06/2025
Circular 621: Structural Inspection Approval Process Update 30/05/2025
Circular 614: Lifting Equipment and Operations 14/03/2025
Circular 613: Regulations on Noise Levels and Construction Hours 27/02/2025
Circular 611: Mandatory Health & Safety Standards and Risk Assessment for Construction Sites 09/01/2025
Circular 604: HSE Officer Approval and Registration 16/08/2024
Circular 603: Out of Home – Advertising Manual 13/08/2024
Circular 595: Buildings – Telecommunications, Network Specification 24/05/2024
Circular 446: Importance of Reviewing Formwork and Masonry Block support 18/09/2023
Circular 428: Construction without permits / approvals 26/01/2023
Circular 426: Closing of Building Modification Projects 13/12/2022
Circular 420: Permit Insurance for Construction Works in the Emirate of Dubai 31/08/2022
Circular 416: Structural Inspection Requests 28/04/2022
Circular 411: Ramadan and Summer 2022 Activities 30/03/2022
Circular 409: Dubai Building Code 09/03/2022
Circular 403: Obtaining NOC from RTA-Rail Agency 24/11/2021
Circular 400: Drawings Submission Standards 29/09/2021
Circular 392: Health and Safety Measures During Summer Months 10/06/2021
Circular 391: Fire Safety during Construction 21/05/2021
Circular 366: Single Window Advertising Platform in the Emirate of Dubai 21/10/2020
Circular 364: Material Quality Checklist 24/09/2020
Circular 354: Fire Safety During Construction 03/05/2020
Circular 350: Amended Process – Soil Report Review 14/04/2020
Circular 348: Construction Site Hygiene Measures – Checklist 07/04/2020
Circular 347: Work Permit and Precaution Procedures to be followed 05/04/2020
Circular 346: Planning and Development Stimulus Initiatives 05/04/2020
Circular 343: Engineering Services Submissions 21/03/2020
Circular 342: Intensification of Cleaning and Disinfection Process in Construction Contracting Companies 19/03/2020
Circular 341: DDA Portal Engineering Services 17/03/2020
Circular 339: Safe Work at Height 12/12/2019
Circular 338: Amendments in Fit out Permit Process 11/12/2019
Circular 333: UAE Fire and Life Safety Code of Practice – Fire Safety During Construction 20/10/2019
Circular 332: Cheque Payments for Planning & Development Service 17/10/2019
Circular 331: Standardization of Signboard and Hoarding at Site 29/09/2019
Circular 318: Amendments in Fit out Permit Process  05/05/2019
Circular 314: 800-4-DDA (332) is operational 24/7 08/04/2019
Circular 312: Proposed Workshop on Structural Design Requirements 27/03/2019
Circular 308: DCCA to Dubai Development Authority 06/01/2019
Circular 303: Security Cheques with Building Department 20/12/2018
Circular 293: Update to Building Services in DDA Website 14/10/2018
Circular 292: Cancelling the requirement of Performance Guarantee 11/10/2018
 Further information about VAT from the Federal Tax Authority 15/11/2017
10 things you need to know about VAT – English 15/11/2017
FTA VAT Registration – English 15/11/2017
Circular 263: Launch of new DDA Online Status Request service 06/11/2017
Circular 253: Requirement of Contractor Pre-Qualification Certificate 14/08/2017
Circular 252: Outdoor Advertisement on Podium Parking Structures 13/08/2017
Circular 247: Promotional Outdoor Advertising Signage 14/05/2017
Circular 242: Outdoor Advertising Signage 06/02/2017
Circular 241: Accessibility Code for the Built Environment in the Creative Clusters 21/12/2016
Circular 239: Updated Building Code for Guardrails for Accessible elevated areas and Openable Windows 28/09/2016
EJARI Registration at Dubai Technology And Media Free Zone 21/10/2012
Renewal of Property Management Services License 23/09/2012
Circular 179: Soil Report Review Request 11/05/2011
Circular 176: Usage of Pavements and Road Verge 11/11/2010
Circular 171: Discharge of sewage into the sewer network 14/07/2010
Circular 170: Cleaning of causeways and dewatering into the creek 13/07/2010
Circular 168: Site plan 04/07/2010
Circular 165: External appearance of the Building 26/04/2010
Circular 163: Revised forms 15/03/2010
Circular 164: CD Labelling 11/03/2010
Circular 157: Dewatering NOC application process 05/11/2009
Circular 156: Approval of Subcontractors working under our jurisdiction 03/11/2009
Circular 155: Temporary Construction permit 09/08/2009
Circular 154: Registration Process – Revised 03/08/2009
Circular 152: Building permit renewal process 05/07/2009
Circular 150: Collection of Documents from the Customer service 23/06/2009
Circular 146: Uncollected Fees and Reports 28/05/2009
Circular 145: Approval of Podium treatment material 11/05/2009
Circular 143: Fire fighting and centralised liquefied petroleum gas systems 23/04/2009
Circular 140: Catering services at project sites 29/03/2009
Circular 139: Redundant cables at Business Bay 25/03/2009
Circular 138: Subcontractor & Supplier Management 24/03/2009
Circular 137: Revised Building Completion Certificate application 22/03/2009
Circular 136: Display of Fit out work permit 17/03/2009
Circular 133: Damage to Infrastructure Works-Rectification Process 08/02/2009
Circular 129: Suspension of projects -Site Works 25/01/2009
Notice to Licensees leasing office space in buildings owned and managed by third parties in the TECOM Zone (PMS Tenants) 14/12/2008
Circular 122: schedule of revised plans and amended models 23/11/2008
Circular 121: District Cooling Requirements - TECOM Sites C and D 23/11/2008
Circular 118: HSE-Fire prevention at construction sites in basement area 23/10/2008
Circular 114: Area calculation standards 07/10/2008
Circular 116: TIS for Building Projects 05/10/2008
Circular 112: Increase Greenery – Landscaping within ZA Jurisdiction 10/08/2008
Circular 110: Tower Crane safety requirements 20/07/2008
Circular: Hoarding details for DHCC 1 & 2 09/04/2008
Circular: Building Permit renewal 12/03/2008
Penalties for Violations against Labour and Licensing Regulations – Decision No. 2 and 3 of 2008 16/02/2008
Circular: Standard Design Guidelines 11/02/2008
Circular: Hoarding details for TECOM Sites 06/02/2008
Circular: Changing Inspection Procedures during Saturday and late inspections 12/12/2007
Circular: Concrete washout area 12/12/2007
Circular: Consultant – Contractor Site Superintendence 12/12/2007
Circular: Non Compliance with Regulations-Occupying the building prior to obtaining CC 04/12/2007
Circular: Fly tipping of excavated material & other site materials 25/10/2007
Circular: Re-demarcation before casting of Ground floor 11/09/2007
Circular: Fly tipping of excavated materials other site materials 14/06/2007
Circular: Adequate Lighting at the plot limits 22/05/2007
Circular: Personal Fall Arrest System 29/03/2007
Circular: Dial-A-Service-For structural inspection 23/11/2006
Circular: DHCC-Signboard -2006 16/03/2006
Others
Others
Circular 414: Student part time job initiative – Academic Partners 26/04/2022
Circular 414: Student part time job initiative – Business Partners 26/04/2022