ABU DHABI FOOD CONTROL AUTHORITY

Shareholders of ABU DHABI FOOD CONTROL AUTHORITY

There are none, and that is not a disclosure gap. The Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority was a statutory authority of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi created by Abu Dhabi Law No. 2 of 2005, not a company incorporated by subscribers. A body of that kind has no share capital, no shares, no share classes, no shareholders and no shareholder register, so there is nothing for an economic department or a securities regulator to publish about its ownership. Its legal personality came from the statute itself, and it ended when that statute was repealed.

The successor instrument shows how such a body is financed instead of by subscribed capital. Under Article 12 of Abu Dhabi Law No. 7 of 2019 the financial laws and systems in force in the Emirate apply to the successor Authority, and the human-resources laws of the Emirate apply to its staff. Under Article 6 its Board of Directors approves a draft annual budget and submits it to the Abu Dhabi Executive Council for approval, and approves the fees and tariffs attaching to its powers, again subject to Executive Council approval. Article 10 provides for one or more approved external auditors appointed by decision of the Board. Those are the public-budget and public-audit arrangements of a government entity, not the capital and distribution arrangements of a company.

Ultimate beneficial ownership

No ultimate beneficial owner exists, and none can be calculated. There is no holding to measure, no chain of intermediate holders to multiply through and no natural person who holds or controls an economic interest in the entity. A government authority of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi falls outside the premise of beneficial-ownership rules rather than inside them as an undisclosed case, so no UBO threshold – the 25 per cent default or any other – can be applied to it. Any record that presents a named person as the beneficial owner of this entity is wrong by construction, not merely unverified.

Data availability

Not applicable. None of the categories used on this site – Full, Partial, Major shareholders only, Current only, Historical, Restricted, Not public, Not found – correctly describes this record, because the category of ownership does not arise. Two checks were run in this session and are reported as checks, not as conclusions about ownership. First, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation holds no legal entity identifier under the name Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority, and the same interface returned no completion for Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety; in the same session the same interface returned 9,520 records for entities with a legal address in the United Arab Emirates and completed the string Abu Dhabi National to Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, so the queries themselves function and the nil is a real nil for both names. Second, the UAE National Economic Register, which this record names as its source, could not be searched at all: its documented entry point at ner.economy.ae redirects to growth.gov.ae/G2C and returns HTTP 404, and the replacement landing page requires JavaScript. No name search was therefore performed against that register and nothing is inferred from its silence. The provider note stored against this record states that shareholder data for mainland UAE companies is filed with the relevant emirate’s economic department and is typically not publicly accessible; that explanation is about private companies and does not describe this entity.

Sources

Abu Dhabi Law No. 7 of 2019 establishing the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (Articles 6, 10, 12, 19), Official Gazette text at pages 49-60, FAO FAOLEX legal database, faolex.fao.org/docs/pdf/uae200373.pdf – issued 31 January 2019, retrieved 7 October 2026.

Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation, LEI record and fuzzy-completion queries, api.gleif.org – golden copy publication date 7 October 2026, retrieved 7 October 2026.

UAE National Economic Register, ner.economy.ae redirecting to growth.gov.ae/G2C – probed and unavailable, 7 October 2026.

Directors and officers of ABU DHABI FOOD CONTROL AUTHORITY

No person is named here as a current director or officer of the Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority, because there is no office left to hold. Abu Dhabi Law No. 7 of 2019 repealed the Authority’s founding law and transferred its staff to the successor Authority, so every appointment within it ended with the body itself in 2019. No official filing or announcement reviewed in this session names any individual as a serving officer of the Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority at any date after that, and none could.

What the legislation records is the shape of the offices rather than their holders, and the roles are public appointments rather than company-law directorships. Under Article 5 of Abu Dhabi Law No. 7 of 2019 the successor Authority is run by a Board of Directors of at least five members including its Chairman, all appointed by decision of the Chairman of the Executive Council for renewable three-year terms, with remuneration fixed by the Executive Council. Article 7 provides for a Director General, also appointed by decision of the Chairman of the Executive Council, who runs day-to-day business. The predecessor Authority used the same three roles: its Regulation No. 6 of 2010 on food hygiene throughout the food chain was issued by the Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority, on the recommendation of the Director General and with the approval of the Board. Article 13 of the 2019 law goes further than any company-law office can: it allows the Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department, by agreement with the Chairman of the Board, to designate which of the Authority’s employees have the status of judicial enforcement officers for offences within its remit, with powers of inspection and control over companies, entities and individuals.

Data availability

Not found for this entity, and not applicable as a company record. Appointments to a statutory authority of this kind are made by government decision rather than by filing with a register of companies, so there is no officer register, no appointment or resignation filing history and no nationality or residence field of the sort kept for company directors; nationality and country of residence are not disclosed by any source reviewed and must not be inferred from any name. The provider note stored against this record attributes the absence of officer data to the jurisdiction not requiring officer filings, to recent incorporation, or to an unmet first filing deadline; none of those is the reason here. The correct reason is that the entity is a public authority and that it was abolished in 2019.

Sources

Abu Dhabi Law No. 7 of 2019 establishing the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (Articles 2, 5, 7, 13, 19), Official Gazette text at pages 49-60, FAO FAOLEX legal database, faolex.fao.org/docs/pdf/uae200373.pdf – issued 31 January 2019, retrieved 7 October 2026.

Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority, Regulation No. 6 of 2010 on food hygiene throughout the food chain, FAO FAOLEX legal database, faolex.fao.org/docs/pdf/uae166605E.pdf – issued 2010, retrieved 7 October 2026.

Group structure of ABU DHABI FOOD CONTROL AUTHORITY

In corporate terms there is no group: no immediate parent, no ultimate parent, no subsidiary and no sister company, because a statutory authority of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi is not owned by anyone and owns no share capital in anyone. What exists instead is a documented statutory succession, and it is fully recorded in legislation rather than partially recorded in filings.

The Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority sat in the Abu Dhabi emirate tier of government. Its own Agriculture and Food Safety Policy of April 2012 maps that tier and places the Authority beside the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi, the Health Authority Abu Dhabi, the Department of Planning and Economy, the Quality and Conformity Council, the Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority, the Urban Planning Council and the municipalities, with the federal Ministry of Environment and Water above it and the GCC Standardization Organization above that. Those are peer government bodies, not group companies.

Article 2 of Abu Dhabi Law No. 7 of 2019, issued on 31 January 2019, establishes the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority with independent legal personality reporting to the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, and provides that it replaces both the Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority and the Abu Dhabi Farmers’ Services Centre, together with all centres subordinate to them such as the Food Security Centre; that all of their assets, holdings, rights and obligations devolve to it; and that it is their legal successor. Their employees transferred to it without prejudice to their financial entitlements. Article 19 repeals Law No. 2 of 2005, which had created the Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority, and Law No. 4 of 2009, which had created the Farmers’ Services Centre. Article 3 allows the successor Authority to establish centres, branches or offices inside or outside the Emirate with Executive Council approval, so any future establishment in this field belongs to ADAFSA rather than to this entity.

Verified statutory succession

Recent structural changes

31 January 2019 – abolition and statutory succession. Abu Dhabi Law No. 7 of 2019, signed by Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan as Ruler of Abu Dhabi, established the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority, substituted it for the Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority and the Abu Dhabi Farmers’ Services Centre and their subordinate centres, made it their legal successor for all assets, rights and obligations, and repealed Law No. 2 of 2005 and Law No. 4 of 2009. The law took effect on publication in the Official Gazette under its Article 20. No structural change of any kind is recorded for this entity after that date, and none is possible.

Data availability

Full for the statutory succession, which is set out in the text of the law itself with named predecessors, a named successor and a dated repeal; not applicable for corporate linkage, since there is no ownership chain, no ownership percentage and no registration number for any party to the succession. The provider note stored against this record says that no parent, subsidiary or ownership linkage is available and suggests this is because the company is small, operates as a single entity or has no branches or international presence; none of those is the reason. The reason is that the entity is a public authority and that its functions passed to ADAFSA by statute in 2019.

Sources

Abu Dhabi Law No. 7 of 2019 establishing the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (Articles 2, 3, 19, 20), Official Gazette text at pages 49-60, FAO FAOLEX legal database, faolex.fao.org/docs/pdf/uae200373.pdf – issued 31 January 2019, retrieved 7 October 2026.

Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority, Agriculture and Food Safety Policy 2012, Diagram 9 on legislative responsibilities, FAO FAOLEX legal database, faolex.fao.org/docs/pdf/uae145533.pdf – published April 2012, retrieved 7 October 2026.

Abu Dhabi Government Media Office, reporting on the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority, mediaoffice.abudhabi – retrieved 7 October 2026.