Riyadh-Amlak
The number of factories obtaining the quality mark in the Kingdom reached 260 factories, of which 218 factories obtained it inside the Kingdom and 42 factories obtained it from outside the Kingdom. This was explained by Mohammed Al-Kharji, Director of the Quality Mark Department at the Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization (SASO) during the lecture «Introduction to conformity assessment systems, an applied example of quality relationship» organized by the Riyadh Chamber, represented by the Riyadh Small and Medium Business Development Center and in cooperation with the Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization at the headquarters of the Chamber, recently, pointing out that the lack of interest of institutions and companies to obtain the quality mark to many of them do not know the importance of this mark in promoting products and the competitive advantage it brings to them in the global markets, adding that the Commission will during the next phase intensify the campaigns He said that the Authority has objectives that it seeks to achieve through its vision to be a distinguished reference body in the fields of standards, metrology and quality at the national, regional and international levels, explaining that the mission of the Authority is to protect consumers, preserve public safety and health, protect the environment and ensure the public interest through the issuance of standards and quality systems and their application, pointing out that the quality mark is a logo placed on products licensed by the Authority and indicates that these products comply with the requirements of technical regulations and Saudi standard specifications for them and other relevant standards and conditions. He also talked about the certificate of conformity and said that it is a document issued according to its own regulation and that obtaining it confirms that the commodity conforms to the technical regulations or standard specifications, indicating that obtaining it requires a number of conditions to be met in the establishments, adding that the significant growth in national industries and the trend to export products abroad required that the exported goods be of good quality to be able to compete and maintain the reputation of Saudi products, adding that this led to interest in certificates of validity for exporting food products where a system was developed to register food establishments eligible for export through which the facilities are identified.