MCO 2.0 Full List of Which Companies Can Operate and Qualify as Essential Services
With just a few hours before the Movement Control Order (MCO) phase 2 will kick in again. The Ministry of International Trade and Industry has released a full list of companies which can operate during the MCO where the International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Azmin Ali mentioned that the government has allowed five essential economic sectors to continue operating during the MCO period as the six states under the MCO are key drivers of Malaysia’s economy and collectively contribute of 66.3% of the country total gross domestic product (GDP).
Here is the list of essential services which are allowed to be operate during the MCO.
A. Factories and manufacturing
1. Aerospace including MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul)
2. Automotive manufacturing and after-sales services
3. Food, beverages and its chain
4. Packaging and printing
5. Household products, self-care goods (FMCG — fast-moving consumer goods — soap and others) and detergents including its chain
6. Healthcare and medicine including dietary supplements
7. Personal protective equipment (PPE) and fire safety equipment
8. Components for medical tools
9. Electrical and electronics
10. Oil and gas
11. Petrochemicals and petrochemical products
12. Chemical products
13.Machines and tools
14. Ceramics (ceramics as moulds for glove manufacturing)
15. Iron and steel
16. Textile (involving PPE production)
17. Furniture sector
18. Manufacturing, distillation, storage, supply and distribution of fuel and lubricants
B. Construction
19. Construction:
i. Maintenance and critical repair works
ii. Main works to build public infrastructure
Iii. Building construction works that provide complete worker accommodations at the construction site or workers placed at Centralised Labour Quarters (CLQ)
C. Services
20. Financial services and its chain
i. Financial institutions (Banking, insurance, takaful and other entities that are licenced, approved or registered by Bank Negara Malaysia)
Ii. Capital market entities that are licenced, registered or supervised by the Securities Commission Malaysia
21. Local government and municipal services
i. Pawning services (pajak gadai)/community credit (registered money-lender companies)
ii. Solid waste management / sewerage
iii. Public cleaning
iv. Cleaning of premises and sanitisation
22. Telecommunications and digital infrastructure including ICT services and global business services (GBS)
23. E-commerce and its chain including e-marketplace services, digital payments and local e-dagang internet centres
24. Hotel and accommodation
25. Agriculture, aquaculture and livestock sector including veterinary services:
I. Management of farms/ swallow farms/ horses/ animal processing plants/ slaughter houses/ livestock/ factories for livestock feed/ supplies such as vaccines/ livestock management/ pet stores (operations to shift livestock is at night)
ii. Disease control and supervision of production of livestock, livestock input and products related to the livestock industry (including export and import) and
iii. Health management, diagnosis of illness and treatment of animals
26. Utilities (water and electricity)
27. Professional services (including accountants/ lawyers/ auditors/ engineers/ architects), scientific (including R&D) and technical (including maintenance)
28. Security services
29. Security and defence
30. Land, water and air transportation
31. Services and operating of ports, shipyards, airports, including the moving of cargo, storage or bulk commodities (Perkhidmatan dan pengusahaan pelabuhan, limbungan dan lapangan terbang, termasuk pemunggahan dan pemindahan kargo, pemaliman, penyimpanan atau pemukalan komoditi.)
D. Distribution business (Perdagangan pengedaran)
32. Warehousing and logistics
33. Services/Sales/Distribution of Food and Beverages
34. Retail/ distribution/ wholesale
E. Plantations and commodities
35. Agriculture, aquaculture and livestock and its chain
36. Plantation and commodities and its chain
F. Others
37. Any services, works, industries and businesses as determined by the health minister after discussions with the authorities supervising that service, work, industry and business.
