المملكة: Urgent: 200 thousand riyals fine for marketing unlicensed educational resources
The National Curriculum Center issued a draft regulation for licensing printed and digital educational resources to regulate the PrivateEducation.
The regulation is implemented with fines amounting to two hundred thousand riyals for violators, and will come into effect ninety days after its publication on the website.
The new regulation prohibits the practice of any activity related to the production, import, marketing or publication of educational resources without obtaining a prior official license from the centre.
These strict provisions apply to all local and imported resources for establishments with a documented educational commercial registry, to include all educational levels up to the secondary level. Or its equivalent.
Technical examination
The National Curriculum Center is committed to deciding on applications for licenses that meet the conditions within a maximum period of sixty days from the date of receipt.
The process of technical examination of the content also takes ten days, with the beneficiary being given thirty days to submit the required amendments in the event of notes on the resources.
The regulations require the submission of an official pledge guaranteeing that the educational resources, whether printed media or digital content, are free of Any material that violates the culture, values, and political orientations of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
This condition, in addition to paying the financial fees, is a fundamental basis for accepting investors’ applications and issuing final licenses.
With regard to copyright, the decision stressed the need to respect the intellectual property rights assigned to others, stressing that the license does not constitute an intellectual property document for the educational content provided.
Deterrent penalties
It is also strictly prohibited to add any slogans or phrases On the covers other than the approved copy, and educational facilities may not use the resources without the Centre’s approval.
To ensure full compliance with the controls, the regulations imposed deterrent penalties, including a fine of up to two hundred thousand riyals for anyone who markets, publishes, or uses unlicensed or violating educational resources.
The supervisory powers include the Center’s right to suspend, suspend, or withdraw the license granted upon monitoring any violation of the regulations.
And in the interest of transparency. To preserve rights, the organization approved the formation of a specialized committee to consider grievances, which includes a minimum of four members, one of whom will be a legal advisor.
Beneficiaries have the right to appeal the decisions of this committee before the Board of Grievances within sixty days from the date of notification of the decision before it becomes final.
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