DOHA: The government plans to boost public-private partnership in a big way as is evidenced from the fact that an exclusive unit is being set up for the purpose.
The unit will be under the jurisdiction of the assistant undersecretary for economic affairs at the Ministry of Economy and Commerce and will be known as the Department of Government Sector and Private sector Partnership.
The department will be responsible for proposing policies, standards, regulations and programmes to achieve partnership between both sectors in the areas of business and investment.
It will also identify areas and projects for partnership and study and analyse partnership experiences and their patterns at regional and international levels and identify ways of utilising them.
At its weekly meeting yesterday the Cabinet ratified its draft decision amending regulations regarding some administrative units of the Ministry of Economy and Commerce.
The draft paves the way for the merger of the departments of economic policies and economic research and studies into a department to be known as Department of Policies and Economic Studies.
It will be under the assistant undersecretary for economic affairs of the ministry, Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported yesterday.
It will propose the state’s macro-economic scope to help draw up medium and long-term plans besides suggesting economic policies and programmes and follow up on their execution.
The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani chaired the Cabinet meeting at the Emiri Diwan.
The Cabinet approved a draft law regulating registration of births and deaths, and referred it to the Advisory Council.
The draft specifies the people who will be in charge of reporting births and deaths in and outside Qatar.
Under the draft law, births in Qatar must be reported within 15 days, while authorities must be notified on deaths or stillbirths within seven days.
The draft law stipulates that a standing committee on births and deaths affairs will be set up at the Ministry of Interior and will assume duties laid down in the law.
The Cabinet endorsed granting Economic Zones Company (Manateq) a licence to acquire plots of land for projects and another to acquire land plots for the low-cost warehouses project.
The licence aims to provide low-cost storage for companies as a contribution from Qatar to support and stimulate the private sector as one of the main pillars of achieving sustainable development.
The Cabinet approved the hosting of the second meeting of the GCC ministerial committee on food safety in Doha on May 7.
It reviewed a draft law amending some provisions of Law No. 24 of 2008 on supporting and regulating scientific research and took decision.
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