For the purposes of this Decree-Law, the following words and expressions have the meanings assigned to them, unless the context requires otherwise: State: The United Arab Emirates. Ministry: The Ministry of Economy. Minister: The Minister of Economy. Competent Authority: The competent local authority in the relevant Emirate entrusted with applying this Decree-Law. Competent Court: The competent federal or local court, as the case may be. Supreme Committee: The Supreme Committee for Combating Commercial Fraud. Commercial Fraud: Deceiving a customer by any means by substituting or changing the nature, quantity, kind, price, essential characteristics, origin, source or validity of goods; providing incorrect or misleading commercial information about promoted products; or any other matter concerning them that leads to deception of the customer. Goods: Any natural material or animal, agricultural, industrial, processed or intellectual product, including basic and luxury products and raw, manufactured and semi-manufactured materials. Fraudulent Goods: Goods altered in a manner that deprives them of part of their material or moral value, whether by addition, reduction or a change to their substance, nature, kind, type, properties, form, components, measure, dimensions, number, capacity, standard, origin or source; goods advertised or promoted contrary to their true nature; or goods that do not conform to the specifications and standards prescribed in the State. Spoiled Goods: Goods no longer fit, wholly or partly, for exploitation, use or consumption. Counterfeit Goods: Goods bearing, without authorisation, a trademark identical or similar to a legally registered trademark. Establishment: Any person carrying on an economic activity, any person associated with it, or any grouping of such persons, irrespective of the legal form through which economic activity may be carried on in the State. Supplier: Any natural or legal person that imports, exports, re-exports, manufactures, produces, markets, circulates, promotes, disposes of, sells, possesses, stores, transports or offers goods for its own account or for the account of another. Customer: The natural or legal person who purchases the goods. Withdrawal of Goods: Any measure intended to prevent fraudulent, spoiled or counterfeit goods from being placed on the market in the State.
Interpretation and application must be checked against the official text and current version.