UAE Competition Law: Executive Regulations adopted

13 May 2026

The UAE Cabinet has adopted the long-awaited Executive Regulations (the "Regulations") to Federal Decree-Law No. 36 of 2023 Regulating Competition (the “Decree-Law”), providing the first detailed procedural framework governing merger control, investigations, complaints and exemptions under the UAE competition regime administered by the Ministry of Economy and Tourism (the “Ministry”).  In many respects, the Regulations confirm the continued maturation of the UAE competition framework and introduce concepts and procedures increasingly aligned with more established competition law regimes, while retaining several distinctive UAE features.

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