Infographic: Regulations and requirements for organizing commercial competitions

Includes electronic licensing, mandatory publication of contest details, prohibition of purchase requirements or price gouging, and punishment of violators
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<Abdulrahman Al Hussein, spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce, explained the controls and requirements that commercial establishments and online stores must adhere to when organizing commercial competitions.

These requirements include issuing an electronic license from the Chamber of Commerce before conducting the competition, explaining the method of participation and the type of prizes offered to contestants, and the start and end dates of the competition, under the supervision of the Chamber of Commerce. These conditions include issuing an electronic license from the Chamber of Commerce before conducting the contest, clarifying the method of participation, the type of prizes offered to contestants, and the start and end dates of the contest, provided that the process of drawing prizes is supervised by the Ministry of Commerce.

The Ministry's spokesperson stressed that the Ministry of Commerce is responsible for ensuring that the prizes are drawn under the supervision of the Ministry of Commerce. The ministry spokesperson stressed that the conditions for organizing commercial competitions include prohibiting the requirement of purchase to enter the prize draw, not increasing the prices of products during the competition, publishing the license number in the competition announcements, and the obligation to prevent the participation of the competition presenter, his relatives or employees of the establishment.

The ministry spokesperson stressed that the conditions for organizing commercial competitions include prohibiting the participation of the competition presenter, his relatives or employees of the establishment. The spokesperson pointed out that the prizes must be delivered within seven days from the date of counting, and the results must be announced in the same means through which the contest was announced, in addition to the prohibition of exceeding the period of holding the contest from the announcement to the delivery of prizes by more than sixty days.

<It is worth noting that the Ministry of Commerce carries out its supervisory tasks to determine the compliance of commercial establishments and online stores with the rules of organizing contests and discounts, and seizes violators and applies penalties according to the Anti-Commercial Fraud Law, which includes defamation, imprisonment for up to 3 years and a fine of up to 1 million riyals, among others.