242 licenses issued for professional services in 2018

Muscat: The number of licenses for individual engineering consultancies, translation, accounting, auditing and other consulting offices, issued during between the beginning of January till the end of December 2018, reached to 242.
The Professional Offices Licensing Department of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said that there were 91 licenses issued for individual engineering consulting offices, 19 for translation offices, 20 for accounting and auditing offices, 90 for other consultancy licenses and 22 for Omani companies.
The ministry said that the services provided by the "Invest Easy" portal helped in making registration procedures easy leading to an increase in the number of transactions completed.
The terms and conditions of the professional offices vary according to their nature. The applicant for engineering consultancy offices must have at least a bachelor's degree in engineering, master's or doctorate degree, and have at least three years of experience after bachelor’s degree and two years after a master's degree, and is free to practice the profession full-time.