RAKEZ activity register
Professional licence activities in RAKEZ
The short answer
Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone (RAKEZ) files 459 business activities under its Professional classification, out of 3618 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 RAKEZ register: what the authority groups under Professional, 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 RAKEZ operates, who it suits, and who it does not.
What the Professional classification covers
Activities in this family describe professional practice: accounting and audit, engineering consultancy, management consultancy, agency and administrative services, and other expertise-led work.
Many professional activities correspond to a recognised qualification, and authorities can ask for evidence of it. The register entry, the qualification, and what the business will actually sign its name to need to line up.
What a professional licence here is structured for
A licence built from this family suits qualified practitioners and firms selling professional judgement — the kind of work where the client is buying the practitioner's competence and accountability.
Where the profession is itself regulated — audit, engineering, health, legal work — the professional body's or regulator's requirements sit alongside the licence and are part of the plan from day one.
From the register
Activities in this family, by name
A sample of the 459 activities RAKEZ files under Professional, 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.
- Accounting Records and Books Keeping Organization
- Accounts Auditing
- Administrative Consultancy and Studies
- Administrative Services - Businessmen Services
- Advertisement Agency
- Advertisements Designing and Production
- Agent Services ships and tankers
- Agents titling
- Agricultural Projects Management
- Agricultural Secondary Education
- Agriculture and Agricultural Mechanization Engineering Consultancy
- Agriculture and Animal and Fisheries Wealth Engineering Consultancy
- Air Aviation and Communication Services of Civil Aviation Consultancy
- Air Cargo Agent
- Air-Condition, Ventilations, Air Filtration Systems Installation & Maintenance
- Air-conditioning, Cooling, Heating and Ventilation Engineering Consultancy
- Airplanes Management and Operation
- Airports and Air Transportation Engineering Consultancy
- Alarm Systems Installation, Fitting and Repair
- All Types of Motor Vehicles Outfitting
- Alternative Power and Researches Consultancy
- Aluminium Installation Works
- Analyzing of Accountancy & Auditing System
- Anesthesia & Pain Therapy
- Animal Wealth Engineering Consultancy
- Animals Meats Preparation
- Art Gallery
- Articles Made of Wire Manufacturing
- Auditing, Reviewing &Testing Cyber Risks
- Auto-control and Power Engineering Consultancy
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 professional licence — worth settling before you apply, whoever you apply through.
- Whether the profession is regulated, and by which body.
- What qualifications and experience the authority asks you to evidence, and whether they need attestation.
- Whether the firm signs or certifies anything — reports, accounts, drawings, opinions — because that is what usually pulls a regulator in.
- Whether this is one practitioner or a firm employing practitioners under supervision.
- Whether clients are UAE-based, and whether any of the work is performed onshore.
- Whether professional indemnity cover is expected, by the authority or by your clients.
Where this family is a strong fit
- Your work is professional practice with a recognisable discipline behind it.
- You can evidence the qualification the activity implies, where one is asked for.
- You know whether a professional regulator has a say in your licensing.
Where it is the wrong family
- The discipline is regulated — audit, engineering, health, legal work — and the licence is being treated as the practising permission.
- Nobody in the business can evidence the qualification the entry implies.
- What you actually sell is a product or a tool, and the advice is what gets it adopted.
- The practice will sign or certify work that a regulator, not the licensing authority, controls.
About this listing
Questions
Frequently asked
- How many Professional activities does RAKEZ have?
- As captured on 25 August 2026, the RAKEZ register files 459 activities under its Professional classification, out of 3618 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 RAKEZ 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 professional licence at RAKEZ 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.