Computerised system upgrades business inspection

AMMAN — The Ministry of Industry, Trade and Supply on Monday launched a computerised programme to develop business inspection, in cooperation with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank and the ICT Ministry.

Industry Ministry Secretary General Yousef Shamali said the programme aims at supporting the government in improving its services, such as business inspection, through facilitating procedures and reducing time and cost necessary for monitoring.

The system includes building a joint and comprehensive central database for all economic institutions working in Jordan, subject to inspection, and classifying them according to sectors and hazard levels to be used by all monitoring parties. 

This step supports implementing other aspects of the programme which are related to identifying institutions subject to inspection and preparing a schedule of visits to these institutions.

The programme also entails electronic connection among monitoring parties, in a way that allows exchanging the results of visits, hazard standards, laboratory tests and coordinating visit timings under an agreement among public institutions to reduce recurrent and unorganised visits.

IFC supported the government when it started reforming inspection in 2007, when two reform initiatives proved success at  the ministries of labour and environment, and paved the way for the Cabinet to approve the ministerial economic committee’s recommendation to launch inspection reform nationwide.