FREE ZONE FILE
Gold and Diamond Park, licensed by JAFZA
What we think
Not a free zone authority and not on Dubai's official register of free zones, yet the companies here really do hold a free zone licence: since September 2020 JAFZA handles all licensing and registration at the park under an agreement with Emaar Malls, and JAFZA's rules and tariff apply. The free zone benefit is real, but borrowed.
Publishes its headline prices, but not everythingPackages
No package price is published. The park sells no licence package. A company established here is licensed by JAFZA and pays the JAFZA tariff, which starts at AED 5,000 per year.
Where each line was read: product page, a commercial commitment on the zone's own site. Official document, a downloadable schedule, regulation or terms. Blog only, an article on the zone's site, editorial and not contractual. Not published, the zone does not say.
Visas
Offices and desks
Year two, and closing down
The two figures nobody advertises. A cheap first year means nothing if year two doubles, and nothing at all if leaving costs a fortune.
Renewal, per year
The JAFZA tariff applies: AED 5,000 per year for a trading licence with one activity group or a service licence, up to AED 15,000 for general trading and logistics.
Closing the company
The JAFZA tariff applies: AED 5,000 to terminate a free zone establishment or company, plus AED 1,500 for the compulsory newspaper advertisement. A branch pays AED 1,500.
Other fees and penalties
Binding terms
- Since 2 September 2020 JAFZA handles all licensing and registration at the park under an agreement with Emaar Malls, announced by the Government of Dubai Media Office.
- Companies here are governed by the JAFZA free zone rules and by the JAFZA fee structure, not by any park-specific rulebook.
- The park is a commercial property owned by Emaar Properties, following the merger that absorbed Emaar Malls.
- It comprises roughly 96 retail units, 108 purpose-built manufacturing blocks and 245 offices, specialised in jewellery, gemstones and precious metals.
- Status verified against the 2020 official announcement. No later official publication confirms or ends that arrangement, so confirm with JAFZA in writing before you commit.
Contradictions on the zone's own site
- Company formation agencies advertise a Gold and Diamond Park licence with its own price. The park issues no licence and publishes no tariff.
- The park is absent from Dubai's official register of free zones, which lists twenty-one, and absent from the VAT designated zones list, while its companies do hold JAFZA free zone licences.
What this zone does not publish
- Any licence tariff published by the park itself.
- Employee visa cost and visa quota specific to the park.
- Published rents for retail units, manufacturing blocks and offices.
- Trade name reservation fee, late renewal penalties, minimum capital and audit obligation, all of which follow JAFZA.
- Any agent or referral commission terms.
Where every figure above comes from
- mediaoffice.ae, JAFZA and Emaar Malls agreement, 2 September 2020
- jafza.ae, licence tariff and termination guide
- dubai.ae, official register of the twenty-one Dubai free zones
- emaar.com, Gold and Diamond Park
Read on the zone's official site on 13 aout 2026. We print the addresses rather than link them, so you can check any figure word for word, and so this page stays a comparison rather than a doorway.
AED 1,000 back on this zone
This zone pays us an introduction fee, and we hand AED 1,000 of it back to you once your trade licence has actually been issued. You pay the zone exactly what you would pay going direct, we never take a dirham from you, and the cashback is only due if you filled in the Free Zone Radar form first.
Figures quoted from the zone are left in the language the zone published them in, so you can check them word for word. This file is available in English and French. The comparator itself is in Arabic too.