The Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Zayed Al-Zayani, announced that the Ministry's Inspection and Metrology Department has received a number of requests for registration and conformity of electric vehicle models for the year 2020 and beyond, starting from January 1, where these requests were transferred to the Gulf Standardization Organization with the aim of reviewing technical reports and issuing certificates. Matching.
In his response to a question by the Speaker of Parliament, Fawzia Zainal, regarding the latest developments in the introduction of electric cars into the Bahraini market, the minister revealed that the ministerial decision regarding the adoption of the technical regulations for electric vehicles issued on January 28 will enter into force 6 months after its publication in the official gazette, that is, on the 29th of next July. .
The minister added that since the beginning of the current year, through those concerned with the Department of Inspection and Metrology at the Ministry, a series of research and surveys have been carried out in preparation for tightening control across the customs ports of Bahrain through coordination and cooperation with the Customs Risks Department in Customs Affairs to determine the correct harmonized system numbers for electric vehicle products.
He pointed out that after the widespread use of electric vehicles around the world during the past ten years, there was at the Gulf level an initiative among the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council to regulate the control of electric vehicles for commercial purpose at the beginning of 2015, where the specialists of the National Organization for Standardization in the Kingdom of Bahrain, represented by The Department of Inspection and Metrology at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, with their counterparts from standardization bodies in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries in coordination and cooperation with the Gulf Standardization Organization, in preparing a unified Gulf technical regulation that includes a set of technical specifications and technical requirements related to electric vehicles received for commercial purpose in the common Gulf market.
To keep pace with this rapid development in technology, a ministerial decree was issued by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Chairman of the National Committee for Standardization and Metrology, regarding the technical requirements for electric cars.
The Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism Decision No. (16) of 2021 regarding the approval of the technical regulations for electric vehicles published in the Official Gazette No. 3508 on January 28, 2021, was issued stating that the Ministerial Resolution will enter into force 6 months after its publication in the Official Gazette, that is, on July 29, 2021

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