Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Saudi companies are allowed to do the business of commercial agencies if the capital of such companies is totally Saudi, the Board of Directors is 100% Saudi and all who have the right to sing in the name of the agency are Saudis. Previously, it was possible to setup a foreign investment company (owned on the ground of 49%-51 % ownership) to specifically operate within the field of franchising; however, this legal permissibility has been recently amended and totally prohibited. • The Saudi individuals and companies are not allowed to work as commercial agents unless they are registered in the registry designed for this purpose at the Ministry of Trade & Industry, and they should apply for the registration during the first three months as from the date of implementation of the agreement. More specifically, the condition precedent is that the commercial registration of the concerned entity or establishment has to mention, prior to the registration process of the agency agreement, that this entity is deemed to act as an agent (distributor and franchisee). The registration at the department of commercial agencies' agreements cannot occur independently of a signed contract. What Are the Conditions that a Commercial Agency Agreement Should Have? • The contract of the commercial agency or distribution should be in written and agreed upon by the principal in his country of origin or that whom represents the principal in that country. A number of legalizations, within the jurisdiction of the principal, are requested: Chamber of Commerce,Ministry of Commerce, Foreign Affairs and the Saudi Embassy. • The contract should include a detailed clarification on the rights and obligations for each party and on their commitment before customers with regard to the maintenance of the product and its spare parts. Saudi entities are recommended to claim and to point out on the applicability of the Saudi laws as being the governing ones. However, it is not always the case when the principal accepts such claim, since the principal is always the stronger party (as he is the source of the outputs to be marketed by the agent). How to Terminate a Commercial Agency Agreement? And What are the Sequences of Such Termination? It is up to the contracting parties' discretion to agree upon an automatic/implied renewal of the agreement, or to opt to the other scenario consisting of termination of the agreement at its term unless parties have expressly decided to renew the agreement. The c...
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. These country specific provisions apply if you are located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In such case: The following shall be added to the end of Section 3.6: You shall not enter, upload onto, process, or store on the Platform any data classified as requiring information security levels 3 or 4 under the Saudi Arabian Communication and Information Technology Commission’s Cloud Computing Regulatory Framework. The last sentence of Section 4.1 shall be replaced as follows: In the event of any overdue payment, and without prejudice to any other rights we may have, we may charge a xxxx-up of 9 percentage points above the current base lending rate of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority on the overdue amount. The following shall be added to the end of Section 14.4: Prior to you submitting any dispute to the ICC, you shall have the right to raise any complaint regarding our provision of the Services directly to us. We shall discuss such complaint with you within a reasonable time frame.
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. There have been two risk scores developed in Saudi Arabia. The first was developed in 2013 to detect individuals with undiagnosed diabetes (Handlos et al., 2013). The risk score was developed using a cross-section study design, recruiting participants from Jeddah and Riyadh through convenience sampling. A total of 2,446 adults aged 30-75 participated in this study, including Arabs and non-Arabs. The study excluded individuals with a previous diagnosis of diabetes and pregnant women, and 86.1% of the study population was Arab. Having diabetes was defined as having a HbA1c ≥ 6.5%. Stepwise backward elimination was used to develop a risk score for undiagnosed diabetes that included age, gender, BMI, gestational diabetes, ethnicity, and number of siblings with diabetes. The diabetes risk score had a sensitivity of 74% [67-81%] and a specificity of 52% [49-54%]. The risk score for dysglycemia contained the same variables as its risk score for diabetes, except for male and ethnicity. The sensitivity and specificity of the dysglycemia risk score was 74% [70-78%], 55% [53-57%], respectively. Neither risk score was not validated. The weak study design and lack of external validation limits the generalizability to the Saudi population as a whole. In 2015, Memish, et al. developed risk scores to detect diabetes and dysglycemia, using data from collected from 1,435 Saudi adults, 20 years of age or older (Memish et al., 2015). Pregnant women and those with a current diagnosis of diabetes were excluded. Data was collected through convenience sampling at urban and rural primary healthcare centers in 2009. The outcome of diabetes was defined as fasting plasma glucose ≥7.0 mmol/L or 2-h post-load glucose ≥11.1 mmol/L. The outcome of dysglycemia was defined as fasting plasma glucose ≥5.6 mmol/L or 2-h post-load glucose ≥7.8 mmol/L. The risk scores were developed using stepwise, forward, and backward logistic regression and were internally validated in a smaller hold-out sample. The final risk score for detecting diabetes included five variables: age, history of gestational diabetes, smoking, family history of diabetes, and central obesity. The diabetes risk score had a sensitivity of 76.6% [70.3–81.9%] and a specificity of 52.1% [49.3–54.9%]. The final risk score for detecting dysglycemia (both diabetes and prediabetes) included four variables: age, history of gestational diabetes, central obesity, and hypertension status. The dysglycemia risk score had a sensitivity of 71....
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Overview of the Country Saudi Arabia was established three centuries ago in three stages. The first state was established by Imam Xxxxxxxx Bin Saud and Imam Xxxxxxxx Bin Xxxxx Xxxxxx’x alliance in 1744 (1157 A.H.). The second and third states were established by Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx Bin Abdul Saud after a battle in 1902 AD resulting in re-gaining control of Riyadh. Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx was the pioneer for establishing a unified Kingdom that integrated today's provinces into one state, which was the first to occur in the Arabian Peninsula’s history (Heritage, 2013). Saudi Arabia is the largest country by area in the Middle East, occupying most of the Arabian Peninsula, with the desert accounting for 95% of that area (Geographic, 2016). Saudi Arabia produces and exports the largest amount of oil worldwide, accounting for a high percentage of its revenues (Almalki, Fitzgerald, & Xxxxx, 2011). However, the lack of balance among job skills and market needs resulted in high unemployment rates, specifically among young males. The population is 24,573,000 with more than 5 million residing in the capital, Riyadh (Geographic, 2016). Founded in 1932, the modern Kingdom is a hereditary monarchy with the King serving as head of state and government. The Qur’an (Islam’s religious text) is considered the country’s constitution, and therefore governed according to Xxxxx’a (Islamic) law (Associates, 2016).
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Evolution of the Healthcare System History of the healthcare system. The World Health Organization (WHO) ranked the Saudi healthcare system as 26th out of 190 worldwide, outranking Canada, Australia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar and Kuwait (Almalki et al., 2011). Saudi Arabia’s first public health department was established as a result of King Abdulaziz’s royal decree which was established in 1925 in Mecca, the holiest city according to Islam located in the west of Saudi Arabia. The initiation of the department proved to be crucial as it provided free healthcare to the local population and pilgrims, yet could not meet increasing health demands that developed in subsequent years. As a result, the Ministry of Health (MoH) was established in 1950 according to another royal decree. In 1970, twenty years after its establishment, five year plans have been put in place in an effort to continually develop public health and the healthcare system in the Kingdom among all sectors (Almalki et al., 2011). Current structure of the healthcare system. The health system is currently divided between two sectors: (1) the governmental (public) sector which offers free healthcare and accounts for 78.8% of healthcare services in the kingdom and (2) the private sector which offers services at a fee and accounts for 21.2% of healthcare services in the country (Almalki et al., 2011). Within the public sector, in addition to the MoH which provides healthcare at all levels for the entire population, there are “other” governmental agencies that provide healthcare for specific populations (e.g. the military and national guard). The Saudi constitution requires that all employees of the public sector, whether citizens or expatriates, receive free and full access to healthcare services. The MoH provides primary, secondary and tertiary care which are provided within primary health care centres (PHC), public hospitals and central/specialized hospitals; respectively (Almalki et al., 2011). WHO reported that in 2009, 5% of the Saudi gross domestic product was spent on public health related expenditures. There are 20 regional directorates-general of health affairs distributed in the Kingdom, and are all supervised by the MoH. Each directorate supervises hospitals and health sectors, and each health sector supervises PHCs (Almalki et al., 2011). Each directorate has the responsibility of following MoH guidelines and requirements from policy implementation, health services management, priv...
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. These country specific provisions apply if both Parties are located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In such case: The following sentence shall be added to the end of Section 3.6: You shall not enter, upload onto, process, or store on the Platform any data classified as requiring information security levels 3 or 4 under the Saudi Arabian Communication and Information Technology Commission’s Cloud Computing Regulatory Framework. The following shall be added to the end of Section 14.4: Prior to you submitting any dispute to the ICC, you shall have the right to raise any complaint regarding our provision of the Services directly to us. We shall discuss such compliant with you within a reasonable time frame.
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is the biggest country in the Arabian Peninsula; it is the second-largest in the Arab world after Algeria. Located in Southwest Asia, it occupies an area about the size of the United States east of the Mississippi River (approximately 868,000 square miles). Around 27 million people, with 8.4 million foreign residents, its annual growth rate is 2.2% (Figure1-1)[1]. The median age is 25.7 years; for men it is 26.7 years and for women it is 24.4 years. The birth rate is 19.19 births per 1,000 people, and the death rate is 3.32 deaths per 1,000 people. The net migration rate is -0.64 migrant(s) per 1,000 people. The maternal mortality rate is 24 deaths per 100,000 live births, and the infant mortality rate is 15.61 deaths per 1,000 live births. The life expectancy at birth is 74.35 years, and the fertility rate is 2.26 children born per woman [2]. The majority of the population was nomadic until 1996; however, currently more than 95% of the population is settled, a result of rapid economic growth and consequent urbanization.
