The Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization (SASO) has issued a circular to all beneficiaries of the Saber platform confirming that the supplier name, whether the importer or the local manufacturer, and its commercial registration number must be marked on the product itself as part of the labelling information requirements. The obligation applies to ten technical regulations and takes effect on 1 October 2026, less than three weeks from the date of this report.
What is new is not the requirement itself. The technical regulations already stipulate it under their labelling information article. What is new is a firm date for enforcement, and the fact that verification is tied to the data submitted through the platform.
Key Highlights
- Two data points must appear on the product: the supplier name, importer or local manufacturer, and its commercial registration number.
- The requirement takes effect on 1 October 2026 for ten technical regulations named in the circular.
- SASO will verify compliance of covered products through the data submitted via the Saber electronic platform.
- Statutory measures and the penalties set out in the Product Safety Law and its Executive Regulations will be applied to non-compliant parties.
The Ten Technical Regulations Covered
- Technical Regulation for Tanks, Part 2, LPG Tankers
- Technical Regulation for Watercraft
- Technical Regulation for Tanks
- Technical Regulation for Trailers and Semi-Trailers
- Technical Regulation for Electrical Self-Balancing Boards, Scooters
- Technical Regulation for Simple Pressure Vessels
- Technical Regulation for Child Restraint Systems and Strollers
- Technical Regulation for Building Materials, Part 3, Hydraulic Links and Related Products
- Technical Regulation for Solar Photovoltaic Systems
- Technical Regulation for Electrical Lifts Used in Buildings and Facilities
The list mixes heavy equipment with consumer goods, which means the obligation reaches suppliers who share neither a sector nor a supply chain.
Legal Basis
The circular is issued with reference to Article 11 of the Product Safety Law, promulgated by Royal Decree No. M/36 dated 29/01/1446H, and Article 19 of the Executive Regulations of the Product Safety Law, approved by SASO Board of Directors Resolution No. 01/203/2024 in its meeting No. 203 dated 15/11/2024.
That grounding matters. It moves the matter from platform guidance to a statutory obligation whose penalties are already defined in the law and its regulations.
What This Means in Practice
The operative sentence in the circular is that verification happens "through the data submitted via the Saber platform." In other words, physically printing the name and commercial registration number on the product is not sufficient on its own. The record registered on the platform has to match what is printed, and it has to be complete in the product file.
This is where most suppliers actually fail. Entity data is spread across an ERP, the technical product files, and the platform records, with no single owner ensuring the three agree. A supplier registering hundreds of SKUs typically discovers the gap when the Shipment Certificate of Conformity is issued, by which time the goods are already in transit.
We covered the same pattern in our analysis of why Saber certificate rejections hold shipments at port, where rejections begin in the product catalogue rather than on the platform. Technically, checking that the supplier name and commercial registration fields are present and consistent before submission is a direct addition to the validation layer described in building a Saber pre-submission catalogue validator.
For suppliers who want to confirm the entity identifiers held in their master data before committing them to product files, our Saudi VAT number checker validates a Saudi tax number free of charge.
What's Next
Covered suppliers have under three weeks for three parallel tasks: determining whether their products fall under one of the ten regulations, confirming that the entity name and commercial registration number are marked on the product in the form the relevant regulation requires, and reconciling that against the product data already uploaded to Saber.
The third task takes the longest and is the one most often skipped, because it is neither a production task nor a clearance task. It is a data task.
If you hold a large product catalogue and cannot tell which SKUs fall under the ten regulations, we can review your data structure and identify the gaps before 1 October. Get in touch for a diagnostic review.
Source: SASO circular to beneficiaries of the Saber platform