DMCC activity register
Service licence activities in DMCC
The short answer
Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) files 562 business activities under its Service classification, out of 973 activities on its register as captured on 25 August 2026. Each activity is a named register entry, and a licence is built from the specific entries that match what the business actually does. This page explains the family and what changes the answer; the exact entries for your business, the combination they form, and the current costs come from an adviser-reviewed activity check.
This page explains one licence family on the DMCC register: what the authority groups under Service, what that kind of licence is structured for, and the facts that decide whether it fits. It is a directory of the authority's own classification, not a ranking and not a promotion.
Activities are shown by name, which is how you will recognise your own work in them. The authority's activity codes are not published here — the code is the filing reference, and which codes your business needs, in what combination, is the output of the activity check rather than something to copy off a page.
Use this to work out whether the work you actually do has a home in this family — and read the zone's full profile for how DMCC operates, who it suits, and who it does not.
What the Service classification covers
Activities in this family describe work sold as a service: consultancy, training, installation and maintenance, agency work, logistics services, and operational support. Each register entry names a defined service line rather than a product.
Service activities vary widely in their conditions — some are open to any qualified applicant, while others touch a regulated field where a federal or emirate regulator's approval sits alongside the licence.
What a service licence here is structured for
A licence built from this family suits a business that invoices for expertise, time, or operational work rather than for goods — consultancies, agencies, technical services, and support operations.
The activity description should track the service you actually deliver. Advisers see the same failure repeatedly: a broad-sounding activity chosen for convenience, which then does not match the contract a client or bank is reading.
From the register
Activities in this family, by name
A sample of the 562 activities DMCC files under Service, exactly as the register names them. Activity names are the authority's own wording and are shown in English in every language; register codes are not published.
- Academic Liaison Office
- Accidents & Liabilities Insurance
- Accounting & Bookkeeping
- Acupuncture Center
- Addiction Rehabilitation Center
- Advanced Driving School
- Advanced First Aid Training Center
- Advertising Agency
- Advertising Researches & Consultancies
- Aerial Photography Services
- Agricultural Research & Consultancy
- Air Ambulance Services
- Air Cargo Agent
- Air Cargo Services
- Air Charters for Passengers & Cargo
- Aircraft & Requisites Leasing
- Airplane Management & Operation
- Ambulance Services
- Arab Wears Tailoring
- Arabic Gowns Tailoring
- Art Gallery
- Artificial Intelligence Developing Services
- Assisted Fertilization Center
- Auction Hall
- Auction Organizing
- Audiology & Speech Center
- Auditing of Accounts
- Authentic Artifacts & Antiques Auction House
- Author's Copyrights & Neighboring Rights Collective Management Services
- Automobile Driving School
What this page does not decide
Decision factors
What changes the answer
Two businesses that describe themselves the same way in a sentence can need different entries, different approvals, and a different jurisdiction altogether. These are the facts that move the answer for a service licence — worth settling before you apply, whoever you apply through.
- What your contracts and invoices actually describe, in the client's words rather than the register's.
- Whether the service touches a supervised field where a regulator's approval sits alongside the licence.
- Whether your clients are in the UAE, abroad, or both, and whether any UAE work is performed onshore.
- Whether the entry implies a qualification the authority will ask you to evidence.
- Whether staff need sponsoring, and how many, because visa allocation follows the premises you take.
- Whether you also sell a product, which usually needs a second activity rather than a generous reading of the first.
Where this family is a strong fit
- Your revenue is fees for services rather than margins on goods.
- The register entry you choose describes the service your contracts describe.
- You have checked whether the service touches a regulated field needing separate approval.
Where it is the wrong family
- Your revenue is really the margin on goods you buy and resell, whatever the contract calls it.
- The service is a supervised one — financial, legal, medical, educational — and the plan assumes the licence is the permission to perform it.
- You chose a broad entry because it was easier than describing the work, and your contracts say something narrower.
- The work is one practitioner's own output, where a permit route may fit the liability and cost profile better.
About this listing
Questions
Frequently asked
- How many Service activities does DMCC have?
- As captured on 25 August 2026, the DMCC register files 562 activities under its Service classification, out of 973 activities on the register in total. Registers are living documents, so the current count is always the authority's.
- Is my activity covered if it is not in the sample list?
- Possibly — this page shows a sample, not the full register. An adviser checks your specific activity against the authority's live list, which is the only check that counts, and also confirms whether it needs any external regulator's approval.
- Why are the activity codes not shown?
- Because a code is a filing reference, not an explanation. The name tells you whether the register has a home for your work, which is what this page is for. The code only becomes useful once someone has checked your actual business against the authority's live list, decided which entries apply and which combination they may sit in, and confirmed any external approval — and that is the assessment, not a directory listing. Publishing a code without that check is how businesses end up licensed for something adjacent to what they do.
- Can one licence at DMCC carry several of these activities?
- How many activities a licence carries, and whether families can be combined, is set by the authority's own packaging rules, which change. We confirm the current position in writing with the authority for your specific activity set rather than publishing rules that may be out of date.
- What does a service licence at DMCC cost?
- The authority sets and quotes the fees, and packages and promotions change. Current figures are confirmed within your adviser-reviewed route comparison, checked with the authority for your exact activity set, visa requirement, and workspace before you commit.
Check where this activity can be licensed
Tell us what the business actually does, who it sells to, and who it needs to sponsor. An adviser checks it against the authorities' live lists, confirms the exact register entries and combination that cover it, flags any external approval, and tells you whether another jurisdiction describes it better — with the current material costs for the routes worth comparing.
This page is general information about UAE business setup, not legal, tax, immigration, or banking advice. Rules, fees, permitted activities, and bank policies can change. Final eligibility depends on your facts and the applicable rules at the time of application.