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UAE Federal Regulatory Watch — The Countdown Edition

Second reading, August 2026: the deadlines are no longer coming — the first ones have already passed

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15 AUG 202615 MINCLOSED

Overview — the countdown, seen from mid-August 2026

Diwan's mid-2026 federal watch mapped the January 2026 reset — the amended companies law, the new Capital Market Authority, the rewritten AML regime, the e-invoicing architecture. That map still stands. What has changed in the weeks since is the tense : the regime has moved from enactment to enforcement, and the first hard deadlines have now passed rather than approached. This second reading is deliberately narrower and more operational — a countdown, not a survey. Three developments define the quarter. First , the merger-control regime became fully operational on 30 July 2026 , when Cab…

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