The Ministry of Economy and Commerce (MEC) has conducted a workshop for 21 employees who recently joined the Registration and Commercial Licences Department.
The four-week-long workshop, held at the ministry’s headquarters, came as part of the MEC’s efforts to create an ideal work environment and develop business registration and commercial licensing procedures to ensure that distinguished services were offered to the audience, according to a statement.
The workshop combined theoretical and practical training. The theoretical training included key topics such as the role of the ministry as well as the roles and prerogatives of the Registration and Commercial Licences Department and the services it offers.
It also featured a detailed explanation of some legal articles regulating registration and commercial licensing procedures, such as Law No 25 of 2005 and its amendments No 20 of 2014, Law No 5 of 2015 and Companies Law No 11 of 2015.
It also highlighted the department’s nature of work and administrative procedures.
Official faces negligence charge
A Doha Misdemeanour Court is reviewing a case in which a Ministry of Justice official has been charged with negligence in performing his duties and causing harm to others through his acts.
A businessman had submitted a sale contract, stating that he had bought his partner’s shares in a well-known medical centre and its branches, for registration by the said official, according to local Arabic daily Arrayah.
The official, however, registered the contract without verifying the details. The regulations stipulate that the official concerned should ask both parties to come to his office and sign the contract in front of him before the registration is completed.
The partner later filed a case claiming that he did not know anything about the sale process and had never sold his shares to the aforementioned businessman.
Following an investigation, the official was charged with negligence and failure to carry out his duties. Besides, the court charged the businessman who had submitted the contract with fraud.
The case is being heard in the court.
