Article 14 of the Saudi Standards and Quality Law

This article comes in the part of the law on quality, and assigns the Authority a strategic task: the national quality strategy.

The Authority's role in three stages:

1. Preparation: the Authority prepares the strategy in coordination with the relevant bodies, which under Article 1 are the government agencies and the private sector concerned with the standard and the related document.
2. Submission for approval: the Authority submits the strategy for approval under the legal procedures. The Authority does not approve it itself, but submits it to the body competent to approve, which the text does not identify.
3. Supervising implementation: once approved, the Authority supervises the implementation of the strategy.

The difference between two strategies: the law contains two separate strategies:

• the national standards strategy.
• the national quality strategy, which is in this article.

Quality, under Article 1, is the degree achieved by a set of characteristics based on requirements, expectations or objectives. The text does not specify the content of the strategy or its duration.

Another provision on quality is Article 15, under which the Board adopts and approves the standards, regulations and documents that set quality specifications for products and services. The article is addressed mainly to the Authority, and does not create a direct obligation on individuals or companies.