APPENDIX I
SAUDI GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES AND
AUTONOMOUS AGENCIES *
| MINISTRY | FUNCTIONS |
Ministry of Agriculture and Water |
Implementation of economic plans and programs for agriculture. Water development. Desalination, irrigation, conservation of scarce water, fisheries, animal resources and locust control. |
Ministry of Commerce |
Foodstuff quality control, consumer protection, companies and commercial agents’ registration, labeling regulation standards, international exhibits, hotels, bilateral trade agreements, and world trade organization. |
Ministry of Communication & Transportation |
Design, building and maintenance of road network. Coordination of surface transport including railroads and bus systems. |
Ministry of Defense and Aviation Economic Offset Secretariat |
Army, Navy, Air Force, construction of military bases, civilian airports and meteorology. |
Ministry of Education
Ministry of Finance and National Economy
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Health
Ministry of Higher Education
Ministry of Industry and Electricity
Ministry of Information
Ministry of Interior
Ministry of Islamic, Endowments Call(Dawa) and Guidance Affairs Ministry of Justice
Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs
Ministry of Municipalities and Rural Affairs Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources
Ministry of Pilgrimage
Ministry of Planning
Ministry of Post, Telegraph and Telephone Ministry of Public Works and Housing |
Provision of free general education in primary, intermediate and secondary schools. Royal Technical Institute programs for handicapped, antiquities and museums.
Government finance, including budgeting and expenditure of all ministries and agencies. Control of national economic growth. Zakat and income tax. Customs, Central Department of Statistics and National Computer Center.
Political, cultural, and financial international relations. Monitors diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the outside world.
Health care and hospitals.
Universities and higher learning institutes.
Development of the Kingdom’s industrial infrastructure and power projects. Foreign capital investment, industrial licensing, protection and encouragement of national industry, industrial statistics, industrial cities and SABIC.
Television and radio broadcasts, publication of newspapers, magazines and relations with foreign press.
Public security, coastal guards, civil defense, fire stations, border police, special security and investigation forces, criminal investigation and traffic control.
Administration of land controlled by religious trust.
Administration of Sharia’s Law and provision of legal services for all citizens of the Kingdom.
Administration of municipalities throughout the Kingdom. Planning of cities and towns. Development of roads and basic infrastructure. Managing and maintaining services to keep cities and towns clean and healthy.
Administration and development of the Kingdom’s oil, gas, oil refineries and mineral resources in conjunction with the General Petroleum and Mineral Organization (Petromin).
Provision of facilities for the annual visit of pilgrims to Makkah. Madinah and other Holy places in the Kingdom. Administration of land controlled by religious trust.
National Planning.
Development and maintenance of telecommunications and postal services.
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AGENCY |
FUNCTION |
Central Department of Statistics
Civil Defense
Civil Service Commission
Customs Department
Dammam Seaport
Directorate General for Mineral Resources Directorate General of Zakat and Income Tax
General Electricity Corporation (Electrico)
General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI)
General Ports Authority
General Presidency for Girls’ Education
Grain Silos and Flour Mills Organization
Grievances Court (Diwan Al Mazalem) Institute of Public Administration (IPA)
International Airport Projects Office Islamic Development Bank
Jeddah Seaport (Jeddah Islamic Port)
King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology
King Faisal Foundation
Meteorology and Environmental Protection Agency
National Guard
Petromin
Presidency of Civil Aviation The Real Estate Development Fund
Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu Saline Water Conversion Corp. (SWCC)
Saudi Arabian Agricultural Bank
Saudi Arabian Airlines (SAUDIA)
Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA)
Saudi Arabian Standards Organization (SASO)
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC)
Saudi Consulting House
Saudi Fund for Development
Saudi Government Railroad Organization
Saudi Industrial Development Fund (SIDF)
Saudi Red Crescent Association
Youth Welfare Organization |
Collects and publishes miscellaneous statistics.
Protecting, relieving, saving and putting out fires caused by natural catastrophies.
Staffing policies throughout the public services.
Customs duties.
Port development, port stevedoring; regulations and documents.
Mineral exploration and concessions.
Tax collection.
Electricity planning, consolidated power companies.
Port development, port stevedoring; regulations and documents.
Responsible for all aspects of female education from primary level through higher education.
Silos, flour mills, wheat importing.
Commercial disputes and grievances. Government corruption, tax disputes and affairs relating to foreigners and their investments within Saudi Arabia.
Approves work on new international airports.
Economic and social development projects loans to member countries.
Port development, port stevedoring; regulations and documents.
Research and development, solar energy projects, patents.
Non-profit organization.
Meteorology and Environment.
Internal Security.
Oil marketing, oil refineries, oil concessions to foreign firms.
Overflight and airports.
Provides loans to individual and organizations for private or commercial real estate program.
Desalination complex.
Development, publishing and distribution of standards.
Joint ventures with foreign firms for heavy industries at Jubail and Yanbu.
Development projects’ loans to to foreign countries.
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