On September 23, 2022, Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality organization (SASO) published the Technical Regulation for ornaments and Accessories in the official gazette. The technical regulation aims to lay out the basic requirements for ornaments and accessories and the conformity assessment procedures that suppliers must comply with when they aim to make their products available in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia markets, and will be enforced on March 22, 2023.

The new regulation contains several important provisions. It:

• Requires suppliers (domestic manufacturers or importers) to carry out conformity assessments and obtain a certificate of conformity (CoC) according to the conformity assessment form (Type 1a) in accordance with ISO/IEC 17067 ‘Conformity assessment – Fundamentals of product certification and guidelines for product certification schemes’;

• Requires a technical file to be attached to the product as part of the conformity assessment procedures. This technical file includes the Supplier Declaration of Conformity (DoC, Annex 4) and risk assessment documents;

• Stipulates products to conform to Saudi Standard Specifications (Annex 1, see Table 1 below) – products with the Saudi Quality Mark or its equivalent are considered to comply with the requirements in the Technical Regulation; 

• Sets forth the heavy metal requirements for raw materials used in the manufacture of products (Annex 2, see Table 2 below).

Table 1 List of Relevant Standards

Table 2 Permissible Limits for Heavy Metals

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