Establishment of the Ministry of Industry

Type

Law

Number

642

Date of the text

02/06/1997

Official Gazette

published in 1997

Status today

In force, amended as of 27/08/2026

Articles

10

What it provides

This law creates a separate Ministry of Industry and renames the former Ministry of Industry and Petroleum as the Ministry of Petroleum. It sets out the new ministry's duties in organizing, developing and protecting the industrial sector, licensing industrial establishments, handling customs protection and anti-dumping

What has changed this text

• Amended by Law No. 20/2008 of 05/09/2008, articles 3

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1997. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.