Article 39 of the Saudi Chambers of Commerce Law

This article sets up a system for measuring chambers of commerce's performance and holding them to account for it, with four elements:

1. Criteria: prepared by the Federation of Chambers and approved by the Ministry of Commerce.
2. Annual self-evaluation: each chamber evaluates its performance every year against the approved criteria. The Regulations govern the evaluation mechanism and its review by neutral advisory bodies, and the results are published as the Regulations set out.
3. Subscribers' views: the Federation periodically surveys subscribers' views on the evaluation of their chamber, and announces the results on its website after the Ministry approves them.
4. Effect of a low evaluation: if the self-evaluation result (paragraph 2) falls below the threshold set by the Regulations, the Minister may give the chamber's board of directors a grace period of no more than a year to address the situation. If the result remains below the minimum after the grace period, the Minister may reconstitute the board and give it a period of no more than a year to improve performance.

Note that the Minister's powers here are discretionary ("the Minister may"), and that the minimum evaluation threshold is set not by the Law but by the Regulations. The Law also does not explain in this article how the reconstitution is carried out.

The article is in the part of the Law on evaluating chambers' performance, after Article 38 on publishing the budget, and is followed by Article 40, which defines the Federation of Chambers.