The Council Identifies and Refers an Unlicensed Company Practicing Engineering to the Public Prosecution

The Council for Regulating the Practice of Engineering Professions (CRPEP) issued a press statement that they have recently initiated a comprehensive program of inspections in an effort to ensure that the engineering sector is complying with the Council’s Law No. (51) of 2014. As a result of these inspections, the Council has recently initiated a judicial control procedures and as a result referred an unlicensed company operating in the Kingdom to the Public Prosecution after gathering sufficient evidence that it was preparing engineering designs in a clear violation of Law No (51) of 2014. The Council re-iterates that as per the Law the activity of engineering designs and engineering supervision can only be carried out by licensed engineering offices in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
The Council further clarified that it is necessary to separate between the activities of preparing engineering drawings and engineering supervision that need to be carried out by licensed engineering offices and the execution of projects that are usually carried out by contracting companies in accordance with applicable regulation. The Council confirmed its commitment to continue conducting field inspections on establishments that violate the regulations of the profession of engineering.
The Council also stated that it will continue to audit the activities of engineering offices and carry out site visits to ensure their compliance with the applicable regulations. It also stressed the importance of following the rules stipulated in the Council’s law and its Executive Regulations, to prevent any mal practices that may harm the engineering sector or owner of engineering projects depending on the work carried out by the engineering offices working in this sector. Among the most prominent of these mal practices and violations that are very predominant in the sector is the activity of “stamping” of engineering drawings prepared by companies or individuals who are not licensed, and then just stamped by a licensed engineering office. The Council has also recently identified several cases of failing to provide the required engineering site supervision.
Investigations are also underway with several engineering offices that have been identified to have violated the law of regulating the practice of engineering profession and thus undermining the Council’s efforts to maintain engineering standards.
The inspections and audits are part of the Council’s ongoing efforts to create a fair and reputable environment for the practice of engineering, to protect the engineering sector from illegal practices and to enforce the law of regulating the practice of engineering professions thereby protecting both the customers and the engineering offices alike.