Article 15 of the Saudi Standards and Quality Law

This article specifies the body that sets quality specifications, which is the Authority's board of directors.

What does the Board adopt and approve?

• The standard that sets quality specifications for products and services.
• The regulations that set quality specifications.
• The related document that sets quality specifications.

Why does this matter? Quality in the law goes beyond mere conformity with an ordinary standard; the definition of quality in Article 1 is the degree achieved by a set of characteristics based on requirements, expectations or objectives, and "quality characteristics" relate to conditions of use, recycling or disposal, conditions of installation, maintenance or repair, adequacy, and performance, durability or sustainability. The quality specifications the Board approves are what set these requirements for products and services.

Note also that the article covers services as well as products; a service, under Article 1, is any tangible output resulting from an activity provided for a fee or free of charge.

Relationship to other articles: this article is linked to Article 14, which assigns the Authority to prepare the national quality strategy, and to Article 16, which allows the Authority to launch quality competitions and initiatives. The text does not specify the content of the quality specifications themselves. Someone who needs to know the quality requirements applying to his product or service may contact the Authority or consult a lawyer who specializes in commercial cases.