The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs H E Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud chaired yesterday the Cabinet's ordinary meeting at its Emiri Diwan premises.
Following the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister said that the Cabinet reviewed topics on the meeting's agenda. The Cabinet ordered taking the necessary measures to issue the following draft laws after it considered the recommendations of the Advisory Council thereon: A draft law amending some laws related to the Ministry of Education and Higher Education and a draft law amending some provisions of decree law No. (17) of 2010 organising the National Human Rights Committee.
Then, the Cabinet approved a draft law on environment protection and sustainability.
The Ministry of Municipality and Environment prepared the draft law to replace the decree law No. (30) of 2002 in the issuance of the environment protection law, in the framework of modernising legislation and complying with the requirements of the national environmental development and the international and regional developments in this regard.
The Cabinet also took the necessary measures to approve a cooperation agreement in the fields of standardisation, metrology, certification and accreditation between the Government of Qatar and the Government of Turkmenistan, and an MoU on the development of energy cooperation between the Government of Qatar and the Government of Turkmenistan.
The Cabinet approved the draft twinning agreement between the Municipality of Doha and the Municipality of Minsk in the Republic of Belarus and draft MoU between the Civil Aviation Authority in Qatar and the European Aviation Safety Agency on aviation safety.
The Cabinet reviewed following topics and took necessary decision thereon: draft law on the regulation of vehicle parking; draft decree authorising Qatar Development Bank to use land to construct a project to build residential units, shops, facilities and services; Letter of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Regulatory Authority at Qatar Financial Center on the report of the activities of the Center for the period from 1/4/2016 to 31/3/2017; and Memo of the Minister of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs on the results of the 44th session of the Arab Labour Conference, and the 35th coordination meeting of the Council of Ministers of Labour of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Cairo, April 2017).
