What Are The Responsibilities of the State Properties General Authority (SPGA)?

The State Properties General Authority in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia assumes several duties and responsibilities, including:

- Overseeing the state properties.

- Disposing the state properties in terms of investment, privatization, leasing, and meeting the needs of government entities requiring lands and buildings.

- Devising the general policies related to the state properties affairs in addition to the plans and programs necessary for their implementation, and submitting documents requiring further regulatory procedures.

- Proposing draft laws related to state properties affairs, suggesting the amendment of current laws, and submitting them for further regulatory procedures.

- Devising the necessary procedures for establishing the state's ownership of all its properties and obtaining instruments issued in the name of the state for such properties.

- Representing the state before the judiciary and semi-judiciary bodies in Saudi Arabia and abroad in terms of the disputes related to the state properties ownership or violation thereof.

- Allocating state properties in favor of government entities and revoking such allocation as applicable.

- Devising mechanisms aimed at achieving integration and coordination between the government entities concerned with the state properties and examining any dispute emanating therefrom.

- Monitoring the application of the laws, regulations, and instructions related to the state properties affairs.

- Maintaining original copies of the state properties deeds.

- Establishing and developing a comprehensive and electronic database in addition to a geographic information system for the state properties, and coordinating with the competent entities to unify standards and specifications according to the relevant best practices.

- Devising rules and controls for appraising, purchasing, or renting state properties.

- Determining the duties emanating from using state properties.

- Conducting the financial and technical appraisal of the properties to be purchased or rented by government entities.

- Assessing state properties and reviewing their status periodically.

- Determining standards and specifications, according to the relevant best practices, for operating, developing, managing, and maintaining state properties.

- Approving the standards and specifications for building, planning, designing, executing, and developing state properties, as well as their financing mechanisms and options.

- Establishing cooperation and expertise sharing with regional and international organizations and bodies involved in the authority's tasks and duties, as well as with specialized consulting firms in Saudi Arabia and abroad.

- Establishing companies and becoming partners or shareholders therein or establishing investment funds and similar entities and becoming shareholders therein, in agreement with the Ministry of Finance to enable the authority to assume its duties and achieve its objectives, whereby such entities would support the objectives for which the authority was established, and assigning some of the authority's duties and tasks to these companies.

The State Properties General Authority operates from its headquarters located in the capital, Riyadh, and has branches in various cities and regions within Saudi Arabia. It maintains an organizational connection with the Prime Minister. It is governed by a board of directors responsible for overseeing and managing its operations, with the Minister of Finance serving as its chairman.