The UAE, through Federal Law No. 3 of 2021 regarding the regulation of donations, has identified 15 ways to collect donations for the entities licensed or authorized to collect donations in the country. The list included advertisements in various media, telephone calls, correspondences and messages regarding the request for donations, funds or coupons paid or cash donations in exchange for receipts, SMS messages, advertisements through various websites, parties, markets, exhibitions, auctions and charitable events, and monthly deductions from accounts. Personal. The list included placing bank account numbers on websites or on any other means of communication, various marketing and promotional offers and the accompanying request for donations, ATMs for banks licensed in the country, platforms approved by the competent authority to collect donations, and social media, in addition to external transfers. direct deposits into bank accounts. In a related context, the law stressed the establishment of controls for external financial transfers from donation accounts, while the law regulates the process of collecting or receiving donations from outside the country in order to preserve the country’s global reputation and position, and to prevent the misuse of those donations or directing them to support any illegal activities or projects.
The Ministry of Community Development confirmed that the executive regulations of the law will include details of those controls and procedures, in coordination with the concerned authorities in the country. The Ministry of Community Development indicated on its website that establishing, organizing or performing any act with the aim of collecting donations requires a permit from the competent authority in accordance with a set of controls and requirements, but there are some donations that do not fall within the framework of the law, and they are donations that are made between members of the same family to help some In all cases, the aim of the law is to regulate the process of collecting donations, which takes place in a systematic and orderly manner. The ministry touched on the difference between the licensed entities and the entities authorized to collect donations in accordance with the law, explaining that the licensed entities are charitable associations and federal, local and private bodies and institutions whose establishment laws, decrees or decisions allow them to collect, receive and provide donations, and these entities may establish or organize any An act with the aim of collecting donations without obtaining a permit from the competent authority, since its main work is to collect, receive and present donations.
As for the authorized bodies, they are the legal persons who are granted permission by the competent authority to collect donations in accordance with the provisions of this law. These bodies must obtain a permit from the competent authority in accordance with the controls and conditions specified in the law and its executive regulations.
The law regulating donations is one of the important laws in the UAE, as it is mainly related to the culture of giving and charitable work that is rooted in the UAE society. Hence, the Ministry of Community Development worked in coordination with the concerned local authorities to issue a federal law that would regulate this work within the framework of a set of controls And the provisions, in order to preserve the donors’ funds and protect them from any form of exploitation and to ensure that they reach their rightful beneficiaries.
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