Bahrain

Bahrain

Online Commercial Registration Portal(SIJILAT)

05 May 2016

In May 2016, the Ministry of Industry, Commerce & Tourism launched the Commercial Registration Portal (SIJILAT), an advanced electronic system for the registration and licensing of commercial establishments in the Kingdom of Bahrain, and full connectivity with all electronic systems of the relevant government entities. The Commercial Registration Portal provides the following services: 1. Provision of all the data related to the commercial registrars, which are the activities of the company, the names of the owners, company status, date of registration, company type, address, authorized personnel and all of these information are updated automatically. 2. Provision of all the registration transactions such as activity management, branch management, deletion of a commercial record without a license, transfer of ownership, etc. 3. The official gazette which provides all the data and transactions that have been processed on the commercial registrars. 4. The Live Chat feature, which allows the investor to chat directly with the customer service center to follow up with on all inquiries. 5. Commercial registration search. 6. Commercial activities search.