Monday 23 / June / 2025
Muscat: The Omani Standards Store has emerged as one of the strategic projects contributing to strengthening quality infrastructure and enhancing efficiency standards for quality and reliability across various production and service sectors.
This digital platform forms a fundamental pillar in Oman’s quality infrastructure system through a unified and advanced portal providing thousands of national, regional and international standards, offering direct and rapid access for all relevant parties including producers, importers, exporters and regulatory bodies to the latest approved technical and regulatory standards.
The store serves as an effective tool supporting Oman’s strategy towards a diversified and prosperous economy based on innovation and quality.
It represents a genuine addition to the business and investment environment by providing a reliable standard reference that helps Omani institutions excel in delivering high-quality products meeting global market requirements, maintaining consumer confidence, and supporting sustainable development initiatives across various fields.
Eng. Imad Khamis Al Shukaili, Director General of Specifications and Metrology at the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion, affirmed that the store represents a qualitative leap in enhancing quality and reliability culture in Oman, reflecting the ministry’s commitment to digital transformation and providing advanced solutions that keep pace with global developments in this field.
He added that the store serves as an integrated platform providing a supportive environment for industrial and commercial institutions and consumers by making standard specifications easily and transparently available, which contributes to improving the quality of Omani products and enabling them to compete in regional and international markets.
Al Shukaili pointed out that what distinguishes the store is its partnerships with international organizations such as the International Organization for Standardisation (ISO), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and the GCC Standardisation Organization (GSO), which contribute to issuing specifications compatible with international standards and support the national economy in achieving sustainable development goals.
The Omani Standards Store is part of the developed identity of quality infrastructure in Oman, reflecting the government’s approach towards enhancing digital transformation and facilitating procedures for obtaining specifications. It provides comprehensive and regularly updated technical content according to global best practices, allowing users from inside and outside Oman to access Omani, Gulf and international standard specifications through a unified window, which helps facilitate trade exchange processes and ensure compliance with quality standards and product safety in markets.
The store contains more than 28,427 specifications classified to cover all vital sectors in Oman, providing specialised content in various fields including 4,855 specifications in chemistry and textiles, 6,766 in the mechanical sector, 5,731 in electricity, 1,810 in metrology, 2,075 in food and agriculture, 2,260 in construction and building, 1,367 in oil and gas, 2,166 in information, 1,171 in health, in addition to 226 specifications in management systems.
This precise sectoral classification enables users immediate access to relevant specifications for each sector, enhancing application efficiency and improving institutional and industrial performance quality.
The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion launched the upgraded version of the Omani Standards Store in December 2024 as part of its continuous efforts to develop quality infrastructure and support Omani products in local and global markets. -ONA
