DMCC business activities

Includes the process of drilling in the on and off shore oilfields for the extraction of petroleum after conducting the geological surveys to locate the petroleum reservoirs, the process involves the experimental and developmental drilling as well as constructing the derricks and fixing the casing pipes.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes firms specialized in reinforcing oil and natural gas wells using various techniques , including activated or processed cement pumping or other materials used to reinforce and coat wells for protection against erosion or interaction with the surrounding natural materials , raise the duration of possible utilization, or to maintain and redrill.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes providing technical and engineering services to enhance and develop production in the fields, it covers well drilling, testing and maintenance, drilling fluids engineering, diving for underwater pipes repair, pipe corrosion control, equipment repair and maintenance.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes the reparation and maintenance operations carried outside the UAE for the equipment involved in the various operations of oil and natural gas production, from primary stages of survey and exploration up to storage.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes the process carried outside the UAE for the drilling in the onshore and offshore oilfields for the extraction of petroleum and natural gas.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes manufacturing milk, Laban, fruit-flavored milk and others, whether processed from fresh or powdered milk. This includes pasteurization and packaging for marketing.

Allowed facility: Workshop or Retail or Industrial Plot

Includes manufacturing cheese from high quality fresh milk, including pasteurizing, purifying and the renneting.

Allowed facility: Workshop or Retail or Industrial Plot

Includes manufacturing yogurt by produced by bacterial fermentation of milk then sugar and fruits and other materials are added.

Allowed facility: Workshop or Retail or Industrial Plot

Includes extracting cream from milk by using centrifugal force.

Allowed facility: Workshop or Retail or Industrial Plot

Includes manufacturing ice cream and iced cakes and sweets, which use ice cream in processing.

Allowed facility: Workshop or Retail or Industrial Plot

Includes the manufacture of fresh, frozen or dry bakery products, such as bread, rolls, pastry, cakes, pies, tarts, rusks, snack products, biscuits, crackers, and pretzels

Allowed facility: Workshop or Retail or Industrial Plot

Includes preparing pastry made of flour, sugar, milk, butter and eggs, and is baked to be flaky and firm enough to support the weight of the filling.

Allowed facility: Workshop or Retail or Industrial Plot

Includes manufacturing the salted, sweetened and flavored biscuits.

Allowed facility: Workshop or Retail or Industrial Plot

Includes manufacturing cocoa and chocolate candies, coating nuts, biscuits or fruits with cocoa and chocolate, and stuffing candies with cocoa or chocolate.

Allowed facility: Workshop or Industrial Plot

Includes blending different types of tea to produce specially flavored brands and then pack for final consumption.

Allowed facility: DMCC Tea Centre Facility

Includes producing mayonnaise using vegetable oil, egg yolk, vinegar or lemon juice, and spices.

Allowed facility: Workshop or Retail or Industrial Plot

Includes roasting, grinding and packaging coffee beans in well sealed packs or bags for marketing.

Allowed facility: DMCC Coffee Centre Facility

Includes preparing and mixing of poultry, meat or vegetable based spice mixes and cooking aids in dehydrated or moisture form, including packaging in sealed packs, compressed cubes or tablets.

Allowed facility: Workshop or Retail or Industrial Plot

Includes blending different types of tea to produce specially flavored brands and then pack for final consumption. And reselling tea, whether in bulk or consumer packs.

Allowed facility: DMCC Tea Centre Facility

Includes roasting, grinding and packaging coffee beans in well sealed packs or bags for marketing. And reselling coffee beans, whether in bulk or consumer packs.

Allowed facility: DMCC Coffee Centre Facility

Includes the manufacture of beverages and soft drinks mixed with flavors or fruit extracts.

Allowed facility: Workshop or Retail or Industrial Plot

Includes the manufacture of fruit flavored drinks and juices processed from unnatural sources, by using flavors and concentrates or essences of dried and condensed fruits. manufacturing of fruit juices from natural sources is classified under activity 1513-03

Allowed facility: Workshop or Retail or Industrial Plot

Includes shops engaged in tailoring men's and boys' suits, shirts and pyjamas, also, men formal uniforms such as military and school clothing as well as work wear for staff and workers in the public and private sector.

Allowed facility: Retail Shop

Includes shops engaged in tailoring Arab men's wear, such as "dishdashas" and others.

Allowed facility: Retail Shop

Includes shops engaged in tailoring women and girls dresses, skirts, blouses, party dresses, wedding dresses, nightdresses, women formal uniforms such as military and school clothing as well as work wear for staff and workwomen in the public and private sector.

Allowed facility: Retail Shop

Includes tailoring the wear over men gowns from knitted and crocheted fabrics.

Allowed facility: Retail Shop

Includes the tailoring, sewing, embroidering and stitching of ladies' gowns, such as long Arab traditional dresses "Jalabya" and shawls. This also includes cutting, sewing and embroidering of ladies' head and face veils and covers.

Allowed facility: Retail Shop

Includes printing business cards, invitation cards to official events and celebrations, season's greeting cards and weddings congratulations cards. This also includes printing the envelopes.

Allowed facility: Physical Office space

Includes silk-screen printing on textiles and wearing apparel by transferring a multicolored image or design image from a screen to textile articles through lithographic, gravure, screen or flexographic printing.

Allowed facility: Retail Shop

Includes firms carrying out typesetting for final publishing of books, magazines, pamphlets, directories, brochures, catalogues and others, by using computer or other modern and traditional techniques.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes firms specialized in providing pre-printing analysis and color separation services for photographs, drawings and other similar materials. It also includes preparing films and fixing the proportions used colors. This also includes any other related services.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes providing a wide range of design and artworks to firms engaged in printing and publishing. This includes designing books, magazine covers, stamps, greeting cards and brochures, the process may take the traditional for modern techniques.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes smelting, purifying shaping gold and precious in ingots with standardized weights and sizes. It also includes gold and precious metals rolling and extrusion to make respective wires, papers and chips.

Allowed facility: Workshop or Industrial Plot

Includes recovering and separate gold from alloying elements such as copper, lead, zinc and iron, the process involves melting and treating with chlorine gas to transform the elements to their chlorides and leave the gold refined.

Allowed facility: Workshop or Industrial Plot

A health facility licensed and equipped to manufacture dental prosthetics to be used by patients as per instructions of the dentist.

Allowed facility: Physical Office space

Includes manufacturing watches, clocks, alarm clocks and timing mechanisms, instrument panel clocks, time-recording equipment and equipment for measuring, recording and displaying intervals of time such as parking meters, time clocks, process timers, also, all the accessories and components.

Allowed facility: Workshop or Industrial Plot

Includes firms engaged in maintaining railway system and infrastructure, involving rolling stock, track, power generation and distribution, signaling, related communication systems, electro mechanical equipment…etc.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes gold smithing of gold and other precious metals (excluding silver), such as platinum, nickel and other precious metals to produce jewellery and gold articles, such as rings, bracelets, earring and other showpieces.

Allowed facility: Workshop or Industrial Plot

Includes cutting, polishing, burnishing of precious stones into small pieces to prepare for jewellery making.

Allowed facility: Workshop or Industrial Plot

Includes the fitting of jewels or diamonds and precious stones on Jewellery products, watches or accessories as well as other gold articles and precious metals.

Allowed facility: Workshop or Industrial Plot

Includes small goldsmith workshops that repair certain jewel accessories or manufacture certain parts of jewels from gold and silver and precious metals.

Allowed facility: Workshop or Industrial Plot

Includes making of silversmiths’ articles, such as brooches, earnings, necklaces, bracelets, rings from silver.

Allowed facility: Workshop or Industrial Plot

Includes growing and modifying laboratory grown synthetic diamonds by chemical vapor deposition and high temperature, high pressure, it’s contrasted with natural diamond created by geological processes and extracted by mining.

Allowed facility: Workshop or Industrial Plot

Includes installing and maintaining security and surveillance systems in facilities and public utilities to prevent burglary breaking in or sabotage or other hazardous acts, such systems involve alarm monitors, surveillance cameras and others

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes designing internal communication systems and networks installed in large complexes, hotels, hospitals, public institutions, student hostels and others, also, fixing telephone calls reception and answering machines and the maintenance and repair services.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes firms specialized in installing telecommunication apparatus, including main switchboards and exchanges well as calls transfer devices and the satellites ground stations.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes reselling of new motor vehicle for personal passenger use, or for commercial use.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes reselling different passenger buses, as well as trucks and trailers for transporting goods, liquid substances, building materials…etc.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes reselling specialized motor vehicles including ambulances, fire engines, garbage collectors , street sweepers, truck- mounted cranes for loading and discharging and truck mixers.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes reselling used vehicles for passenger transportation, whether being used for short or long time.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes reselling used vehicles and trucks for transporting goods, building materials and liquid tankers…etc

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes electric mini cars designed to serve in golf clubs, football stadiums, horse racetracks as well as passengers and visitors shuttles in airports and malls.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes reselling different racing cars, which are exclusively restricted to racing tracks.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes reselling of vehicles fitted with protective accessories to allow for safe transport of people and hazardous materials.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes firms engaged in car washing and cleaning manually or through specially equipped movable vehicles which carry out such services in public parking lots and parking facilities in malls and other premises.

Allowed facility: Physical Office space

Includes reselling spare parts and to use fully or partially in repairing and maintaining motor vehicles, buses, trucks and trailers and other relevant requisites including oils, detergents, paints.. etc..

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes the reselling accessories fitted in cars and vehicles such as, additional bumpers to adjust exterior, air deflectors to increase the car's efficiency , baggage loading racks to diversify the car's use , as well as sun and rain protectors and small trailers, also, devices fitted in public service vehicles such as police, ambulances and fire engines.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes reselling of various types of tyres and requisites including casings, rims and tubes.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes reselling power generation and storage batteries for cars, boats, motorcycles and other machinery.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes reselling the two or three wheeled motorized motorcycles for cruising in paved roads or for off road use, including selling spare parts and motorcyclists accessories such as helmets .

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes reselling the three-wheeled electric scooters which is equipped with battery to produce power.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes reselling the parts and components used for the repair or replacement of motorcycles failed parts, also the motorcyclists accessories such as helmets.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes firms engaged in bringing sellers and buyers involved in wholesale and retail trade together in return of a commission or remuneration, these firms are neither allowed to trade on own account nor practice brokerage in real estate, services, shares and bonds and finance.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes firms engaged in buying and selling goods by offering them up for bid whether indoor for items like jewellery and vehicles and phone numbers, or outdoor bidding for items like cars and real estate, it doesn’t include authentic artifacts and antiques which are classified under the activity no. 5110-14.

Allowed facility: Physical Office space

This is a government office established in the Dubai by any competent official entity subordinated to a foreign country in order to activate trade relations with that country and to promote its products as well as its industrial and commercial enterprises, such offices are not allowed to carry out any trading activity nor enter into commercial transactions and deals by themselves.

Allowed facility: Any Type

This is an office established in DMCC Free Zone by any international company or enterprise to represent it in the UAE in order to promote its products and services, boost business, or facilitate commercial agreements between the principal the customers, such office is not allowed to carry out any trading activity nor enter into commercial transactions and deals by itself.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes firms engaged in displaying and presenting products in supermarkets and retail stores to maximize sales, including, wrapping some goods with gifts, pictures or cards to promote.

Allowed facility: Any Type

This is an office established in DMCC Free Zone by any foreign company or enterprise to facilitate the contacts and follow-up of the company's activities and affairs, and to promote the company services. Such an office may not carry out the company's activities nor make any trading activity inside the UAE.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes offices established in DMCC Free Zone and managed by any of the international foreign banks. They are intended to promote the activities of the major banks existing in the fatherland country or those of any of their branches. They are also assigned to facilitate contacts between the concerned banks and their clients.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes firms that issue and/or operate loyalty and preloaded card programs which enable cardholders to become a member in a loyalty program, the card works as identifier of the holder when making purchases, the member will be entitled to accumulate points and to redeem them against goods and services at participating partners. It includes joint promotions by partners within the scheme and using partners’ outlets for distributing loyalty program information and applications. Both the firm and the cardholder will benefit of the service, the first will increase the client base and the latter will get additional benefits

Allowed facility: Any Type

This is an office established in DMCC Free Zone by any international academic institution to represent and boost ties and to facilitate academic exchange with its local counterparts; also, educating local students and academic institutions of partners’ universities and their activities and specializations, such office is not allowed to carry out admission services or commercial activities.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes firms which conduct auctions of genuine artifacts, antiques and/or artworks. Auctions may be held for either commercial or non-commercial purposes and may be held on behalf of a third party (e.g. art gallery, charity).

Allowed facility: Physical Office space

This is a scientific office established in DMCC Free Zone by a pharmaceutical company to notify and give information on the medicinal and chemical elements of their pharmaceuticals, and shall be contacted by the medical authorities in case undesired adverse effects of their products, it will also be responsible of the advertising as well as facilitating deals with the local customers, such office is not allowed to engage in commercial transactions.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes firms which provide other parties with cards that can be used to obtain reduced prices or certain facilities when buying products or services from a group of shops, hotels or other firms participating in the program of reduced prices or facilities provided by such cards.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes firms authorized by the RTA to provide the rental service via calls, electronic media, smart apps, or any other mean, it involves organizing the booking, e-Payment, information, customer support services

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes firms authorized to manage the transportation and delivery orders through electronic platforms and smart applications

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes firms operating interactive platform which connects licensed healthcare providers and patients via electronic media, smart apps, it involves entering into contracts between the healthcare providers and the platform to enable the patients booking appointments with doctors, radiology centres and clinical Laboratories, obtaining medications prescriptions and dispensing at the pharmacies, medical follow-up during the treatment, creating electronic health record containing the medical history for the patient, coordinating the approval of the Insurance companies, the role of such firms is restricted to brokerage only. The provision of therapeutic services and consultancies is not allowed under this activity.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes firms engaged in providing an online platform which promotes third parties’ products and services and facilitates commercial transactions between buyers and sellers in return of a commission or remuneration; such firms are neither allowed to trade nor practise brokerage in real estate, investments, forex or any other regulated activities.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes reselling plants, trees and flowers seeds and breeders for boosting agricultural output. This should be carried for only agricultural and industrial purposes and not for direct consumption.

Allowed facility: Any Type

Includes reselling and arranging various types of raw flowers and ornamental plants.

Allowed facility: Any Type