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UAE Ministry of Economy and Tourism: Beneficial-owner procedures

Beneficial-owner threshold: 25%. Reference period: Capital or voting rights · Cabinet Decision 109/2023. Status in the Horizon dossier: Observed.

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What the source contributes

Beneficial-owner threshold: 25%. Reference period: Capital or voting rights · Cabinet Decision 109/2023. Status in the Horizon dossier: Observed.

Official 25% ownership and voting-rights tests, control-chain sequence, other-control test and senior-management fallback.

Beneficial-owner threshold · Capital or voting rights · Cabinet Decision 109/2023 · Observed

Official 25% ownership and voting tests, tracing sequence and senior-management fallback.

Horizon synthesis and use

  • Evidence used in the Fashion, Luxury & Creative Industries in United Arab Emirates: independent market-entry study country-sector decision dossier. Recheck the original publication date, definition and current status before transaction-specific use.
  • Evidence used in the Professional & Business Services in United Arab Emirates: independent market-entry study country-sector decision dossier. Recheck the original publication date, definition and current status before transaction-specific use.
  • Evidence used in the Education & Executive Learning in United Arab Emirates: independent market-entry study country-sector decision dossier. Recheck the original publication date, definition and current status before transaction-specific use.
  • The value is retained with its period and status. It is not converted into a synthetic market-attractiveness score or treated as a company-specific forecast.

Before using the evidence

Four questions that keep the conclusion honest

  1. 01Which legal activity, applicant type and jurisdiction does “UAE Ministry of Economy and Tourism: Beneficial-owner procedures” actually cover?
  2. 02Which approval, filing, fee, eligibility condition or competent authority is stated directly, and which still requires written confirmation?
  3. 03Does the rule apply to United Arab Emirates · Country intelligence, United Arab Emirates country dossier, United Arab Emirates country dashboard, or only to a narrower licence, entity, free zone, product or worker category?
  4. 04The record was reviewed on 2026-10-28; what has UAE Ministry of Economy and Tourism changed or superseded since that date?

Where Horizon integrates this source