Jurisdiction | AE
United Arab Emirates
What the review turns on
Regulatory themes in this market
- PDPL
- Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021. It sits alongside, not instead of, the health-sector localisation rule.
- Health data localisation
- Federal Law No. 2 of 2019 requires health data generated in the UAE to stay in the UAE, including in the free zones. It determines which deployment models can lawfully be offered at all.
- NABIDH
- Dubai Health Authority's exchange. Connection is understood to be a condition of a DHA facility licence, so it is a licence-continuity question before it is an interoperability question.
- Riayati
- The MoHAP federal exchange for the Northern Emirates: a separate onboarding with its own criteria, and no integration exists today.
- DESC
- The Dubai Electronic Security Centre's information security regulation, which a Dubai buyer's reviewer may raise. Pensieve holds no assessment against it and says so.
- VAT
- Five per cent, with the UAE tax invoice format and e-invoicing where it applies.
Bound values
What Pensieve’s paper resolves to in United Arab Emirates
These are not descriptions of the contract. They are the values the contract binds to when it is rendered for this market, taken from the same token registry the documents themselves read from, so a clause and this table cannot disagree.
| Field | Value | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Governing law | the laws of the United Arab Emirates | The law the master agreement is construed under. |
| Courts | the courts of Dubai | Where a matter goes if arbitration is not used or is set aside. |
| Arbitration seat | Dubai International Arbitration Centre | The legal seat, which fixes the supervisory court. |
| Arbitration rules | the DIAC Arbitration Rules | The procedural rules the reference runs under. |
| Data protection law | Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data | The statute the processing agreement is written against. |
| Regulator | the UAE Data Office | Who the hospital, as controller or fiduciary, reports to. |
| Breach notification | 72 hours | The controller's statutory clock. Pensieve notifies the hospital inside 4 hours of its own awareness, in every market. |
| Currency | AED | The currency the order form and every invoice are denominated in. |
| Tax | VAT | The indirect tax that appears on the invoice. |
| Standard rate | 5% | Applied unless an exemption or reverse charge is evidenced. |
| Invoice format | UAE tax invoice | The format the hospital's accounts payable system will accept. |
| Document language | en-AE | The language documents are issued in for this market. |
| Stamp duty | Not applicable | Whether execution attracts duty, which, where it does, sits directly on the critical path to cash. |
6 artefacts | jurisdiction AE
Written for United Arab Emirates, not translated into it
4 further artefacts are internal to Pensieve and not listed. The count is published rather than the existence concealed.
74 artefacts | jurisdiction GL
The global set, which applies in United Arab Emirates too
Most of the register carries no jurisdiction because it carries all of them: how the platform is built, how it is defended, how data leaves at the end. Every market page sits on top of these. The eight below are the ones a hospital’s reviewers open first.
Open the whole global setWhat Pensieve holds, and what it does notWhich deployment model suits this market