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Document overview
Recognises Dubai VARA as the competent authority for specified fund-management and wealth/investment-management activities under MD 229/2025.
- Supplements rather than replaces MD 229/2025.
- Applies retroactively for QFZP purposes.
- DFSA and FSRA remain separate regimes.
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Scope and exclusions
Applies to
Applies to VARA-licensed fund-management and wealth/investment-management activities for the qualifying-activity list.
Limitations and exclusions
Does not replace DFSA or FSRA regimes or make every virtual-asset activity automatically qualifying; all other QFZP conditions continue to apply.
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Document text
This is an independent editorial overview, not the official text or a complete translation. Application requires checking the Arabic original, current version and transitional provisions.
An independent four-language editorial overview is published; the full instrument is not yet reproduced on-site.. This is an independent editorial overview, not the official text or a complete translation. Application requires checking the Arabic original, current version and transitional provisions.
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Publication status
Source and translation status
The official Arabic text controls; the English version on the official portal is for reference. This page contains an independent SGC editorial overview.
Legal review
Number, date, scope, principal exclusions, effective status and official URL were checked; the overview is not advice on a specific matter. · September 13, 2026
Republication status
Only instrument metadata, an official deep link and an original editorial explanation are used. The FTA/MoF PDF, layout and compilation are not copied; full-text reproduction requires a separate source and rights review.
Change history
- 22 December 2025 — issued; applies for QFZP purposes from 1 June 2023.
- Reviewed 13 September 2026
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Official primary source
Ministerial Decision No. 336 of 2025
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