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The Abu Dhabi Registration Authority visited 414 businesses involved in manufacturing and selling building materials during July 2026, according to ADRA data. Officials reported that 395 of the inspected businesses fully met all regulatory requirements, producing an overall compliance rate of 95.4 percent. The authority issued four warnings to establishments that had raised prices without objective justification. Fifteen further violations were recorded for price increases and the failure to provide sales and purchase invoices.
These field visits formed part of ADRA’s intensified oversight of the building materials market amid growing construction demand across the emirate, the authority explained. ADRA operates as the regulatory arm of the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development and focuses on developing and supervising the business sector. Regular inspections help verify that operations follow approved laws on pricing, documentation and quality standards.
The July campaign follows an earlier increase in ADRA’s monitoring activity during 2026, authority figures show. In March the authority carried out 740 field visits in Abu Dhabi City, Al Ain and Al Dhafra regions, according to an ADRA announcement. Those visits identified violations that led to 416 warnings and 38 fines for non-compliance with official instructions.
ADRA executed 16,748 inspection visits throughout 2025, a marked rise from 6,665 conducted the year before, authority statistics indicate. The body handled 31,759 consumer complaints in that period and resolved 83.5 percent of them through amicable settlements. It also issued 104 violations and 294 warnings tied to breaches of consumer protection and trademark rules.
The authority launched a remote visual inspection service in December 2025 to modernise oversight while upholding compliance levels, ADRA noted in a separate statement. Satisfaction rates among economic establishments with inspection and oversight operations stood at 96 percent last year. Such tools support faster processing and direct communication with businesses operating in the emirate.
ADRA continues to coordinate with other entities to track supply and demand indicators for building materials and related goods, according to authority statements. The body has conducted 465 inspection campaigns targeting commercial outlets across Abu Dhabi in 2025, representing a 16.2 percent increase from the prior year. In one set of operations the value of seized counterfeit goods exceeded AED1.8 million.
