Cabinet gives its approval for low-cost warehouses

QNA/Doha


HE the Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani yesterday chaired the cabinet’s regular meeting at the Emiri Diwan.
Following the meeting, HE the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid al-Mahmoud said the cabinet took several decisions.
The cabinet approved a draft law regulating the registration of births and deaths, and referred it to the Advisory Council.
Under the draft law, births within the country must be reported within 15 days while deaths or stillbirths must be notified within seven days.
A committee called the standing committee on births and deaths affairs is to be established at the Ministry of Interior.
The cabinet also approved a draft law on businesses of experts, with provisions related to practising their businesses and the regulations involved.
Under the draft law, a committee on experts’ affairs is to be established at the Ministry of Justice to oversee such businesses, particularly their registration and reviewing complaints.
The cabinet also approved granting Economic Zones Company (Manateq) a licence to usufruct land to set up low-cost warehouse projects.
The licence aims to provide low-cost storage for companies as a contribution from the state to support and stimulate the private sector as one of the main pillars of achieving sustainable development.
The meeting ratified a cabinet draft decision amending the regulation of some administrative units of the Ministry of Economy and Commerce and identifying their powers.
According to the bill, the departments of economic policies and economic research and studies are to be merged into the department of policies and economic studies and to be supervised by the assistant undersecretary for economic affairs. The department is to be tasked with proposing the state’s macroeconomic scope to help in drawing up its medium- and long-term plans, besides suggesting economic policies and programmes and following up on their execution.
An administrative unit called the department of government sector and private sector partnership will be added to the administrative units under the jurisdiction of the assistant undersecretary for economic affairs.
The department will be responsible for proposing policies, standards, regulations and programmes necessary to achieve partnership between the two sectors in the areas of business and investment, identify areas and projects of partnership, and study and analyse partnership experiences and their prominent patterns at the regional and international levels and identify aspects of utilising them.
The cabinet approved hosting the second meeting of the GCC ministerial committee on food safety in Doha on May 7.
It also reviewed a draft law amending some provisions of Law No 24 of 2008 on supporting and regulating scientific research and took the necessary decision.