The United Arab Emirates University issued the following announcement on March 13.
The Federal National Council (FNC) reviewed the role of the Federal National Council in the UAE's development march during the seminar held at the United Arab Emirates University on Monday in the city of Al Ain, in support of education, scientific research and promotion of the various sectors of health, social, service, housing, , As part of his community outreach initiatives in Zayed. The Council also explained its strategy for the years 2016-2021, its legislative, supervisory and political powers, and its achievements both internally and externally.
The council was represented at the seminar by a number of university students, academics, educators, specialists and media professionals, HE Ezzat Suleiman bin Suleiman, member of the Federal National Council, and HE Ahmed Shabib Al Dhaheri, Secretary General of the Council.
HE Ahmed Shabib Al Dhaheri, Secretary General of the Council praised the role played by UAEU in the development of education in the country and the graduation of qualified national cadres in accordance with the highest international standards and standards for the benefit of the homeland and the citizen. The overall sustainable development of the state in all areas in accordance with the vision of 2021, and to achieve the objectives of the global competitiveness of the UAE centennial 2071.
His Excellency gave a presentation on the stages of the development of parliamentary life in the State since the establishment of the Council on February 12, 1972. He appreciated the support received by the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan, may God bless him and grant him peace, Led by His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, in implementation of the political program announced by His Highness in 2005 to enable the Council to exercise its constitutional responsibilities.
Al-Dhahiri said that this community activity comes within the framework of the Council's diligent work in various areas of its work and in implementation of its comprehensive parliamentary strategy for 2016-2021, which was launched with the kind blessing of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, The aim of the initiative is to achieve excellence and achieve the best achievements and to activate the initiatives included in the plan, which are the most important pillars of which are the promotion of community initiatives aimed at activating the community partnership and communication with citizens and various activities of the society and all state institutions.
He pointed out that the General Secretariat of the Federal National Council devotes all its energies and potentials to achieving the six strategic objectives of the Council, which included consolidating national unity, promoting the values of citizenship, strengthening the legislative system in line with the best international standards, and enhancing the supervisory role of the Council. Through a leading role for parliamentary diplomacy, enhancing communication and active community participation, and developing the internal capacities of the Council's organs to achieve effective parliamentary performance.
In this strategy, the Council adopted the comprehensive monitoring plan, which is one of the basic steps to achieve many strategic achievements at the internal and external levels within the framework of the Constitutional, Legislative and Supervisory Council's powers and parliamentary diplomacy through the activities of the Parliamentary Division and its participation in regional and international parliamentary forums.
Al-Dhaheri stressed that the strategy of the Parliamentary Council is a model for balanced and wise parliamentary action, which provides all the best for the happiness of the people of the UAE and support the wise leadership's orientations in achieving the interest of the homeland and the citizen.
The powers of the Council are legislative, monitoring and political
For her part, HE Ezzat Suleiman bin Suleiman, member of the Federal National Council, referred to the legislative, supervisory and political powers of the Legislative Council, pointing out that the legislative authority is to discuss, approve, amend or reject draft laws. The Council may discuss draft constitutional amendments, The Council also discusses the international treaties and conventions that the State is conducting with the various States and international organizations.
The Council has the right to initiate and discuss general issues related to the affairs of the State and to submit proposals and recommendations to increase its efficiency. It also asks the Prime Minister and the Ministers: Each member is entitled to He shall make inquiries about the matters within the jurisdiction of the various ministries and governmental bodies in the State, including the question of an unknown matter and ascertain the occurrence of an incident to which he is aware, as well as the examination of complaints submitted by individuals to federal governmental bodies.
As for the political competence of the Council, Ben Sulaiman said that it is the work of parliamentary diplomacy, which is the role played by the Parliamentary Division of the Council. She pointed out that the participation of the UAE Parliamentary Division in parliamentary diplomacy comes through participation in regional and international parliamentary federations, in addition to other parliamentary meetings such as specialized parliamentary conferences and symposia. The Council also conducts parliamentary visits which are well established and practiced in many parliaments of the world.
Local achievements
On the level of strategic achievements at the internal level, the Council has played a significant supervisory role by discussing general issues, asking questions and adopting recommendations to improve the performance of many sectors of society, especially educational, economic, housing, health and social. And service in agriculture and fishing.
She explained that in the education sector, the Council, during its discussions on the subject of education needs, recommended to the government on the need to establish a national university, and the government took this recommendation, which resulted in the establishment of the United Arab Emirates University, which is the first university in the state.
The Council recommended the establishment of a fund to support scientific research in the State, in which private institutions and companies operating in the State will contribute to the State budget. The Council also recommended the establishment of a federal agency for academic accreditation, Education, which deals with the licensing, classification and accreditation of private schools based on the revision of their educational systems and curricula.
On the achievements in the economic sector reported that the Council made a recommendation to issue a law of the Central Bank, the government approved this recommendation was issued a federal law to establish the Central Bank, and the Council recommended the establishment of a stock exchange for commodities and trading shares of companies operating in the state, This recommendation is to issue a federal law on the establishment of the Emirates Securities and Commodities Authority and Market.
The Federal National Council has played a major role in introducing several amendments to the draft Companies Law and the amendments made by the Council to the draft law to allow the company to keep an electronic copy of the assets of any documents and documents stored and deposited in accordance with the regulations issued by the Minister. The Board added that the Founders Committee shall provide any other documents required by the competent authority to provide the competent authority with the freedom to request any documents or documents. This amendment is consistent with the World Bank's indicators for the extraction of licenses and the fulfillment of any notices, Requested by the competent authorities.
On the achievements in the housing sector, Ben Sulaiman stated that, during his discussion on the policy of the Ministry of Public Works and Housing, the Council recommended the establishment of a national housing program that provides suitable housing for the citizen.
The Federal National Council, during its discussions during the legislative chapters, also recommended organizing the use of government housing to identify the mechanisms governing the ownership of houses and the preservation of their legitimate rights. It also discussed the extent to which the law covers the changes and developments in the housing sector.
In the health sector, the council discussed several issues including the policy of the Ministry of Health, mental hospitals and health services in the Northern Emirates. The most important suggestions made by the Council in the policy of the Ministry of Health are the plans to improve quality, the safety of patients and employees, Including high-risk materials, etc., in addition to addressing the issue of disability in various mental health specialties, whether medical or nursing staff, and the high costs of treatment and drugs for psychiatric diseases in the country.
HE Dr. Azza Bin Sulaiman pointed out that the Council discussed several draft laws, including a law on the licensing of the Fertilization Center in the State and a law on communicable diseases. The Federal National Council discussed the legal fatwa concerning the freezing and preservation of embryos and heard the opinion of the specialists in the subject. And the legislative opinion, and accordingly the Council refused to freeze and save embryos. The Council also discussed the draft law on communicable diseases. The draft law obligates health facilities to implement a number of commitments to ensure the non-spread of communicable diseases, including the need for health establishments to cooperate fully with the Ministry and the health authority to provide them with the necessary information for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.
The Council also presented concrete proposals on Emiratisation, including the consideration of the parameters of the strategic vision proposed by the Federal National Council as a basis for the construction of Emiratisation programs, plans and policies, especially within the framework of the partnership between the public and private sectors and the integration of education outputs with training programs. (3) of 2011 on strengthening the participation of national human resources and the necessity of taking the necessary measures to subject all free zones to nationalization policies and plans. He also called for the urgent need to expedite the issuance of the Unemployment Insurance Law to address the job security gap between the two sectors To the government and private and achieve job security for citizens, and oblige all federal government agencies to link with
In its recommendations, the Council called for the establishment of a Higher Federal Council for Emiratisation, which would be the only entity concerned with resettlement and to consider the determinants of the strategic vision proposed by the Council as a basis for building Emiratisation programs, plans and policies, especially within the framework of the public-private partnership. The provisions of the Law regulating the working relations of working hours, weekly rest days and annual holidays, thus reducing the differences between the government sector and the private sector regarding working conditions and taking the necessary measures to subject all free zones to policies and plans Yen and the need to localize the profession of human resources manager.
The Cabinet also recommended that the government provide more care to farmers and fishermen and provide them with financial and financial assistance in order to raise their standard of living. The government responded by submitting a draft law on agricultural cooperatives, General for the marketing of agricultural production.
The Federal National Council called for the importance of providing postal, telegraph, telephone and wireless services with great care and work to develop them. This demand was met by the wise leadership by obliging the Ministry of Communications to take care of standardization and development of postal services in the country and to develop a plan to cope with the expansion of postal services It has already been established across the country, and a public postal department has been set up to include all postal services in the UAE. The state has also prepared bills to regulate the licensing and use of wireless devices in the country.
External achievements
She discussed the achievements of the Council at the external level and achieved many achievements in this regard during his parliamentary visits and the participation of the Parliamentary Parliamentary Division in the regional and international parliamentary federations, as well as other parliamentary meetings such as specialized parliamentary conferences and seminars. Where his initiatives, projects, proposals, papers and emergency items presented by these forums meet with the approval and welcome of a broad parliament, and works to strengthen parliamentary relations among the countries of the world through joint work committees, and work to achieve the interests of the State in various political, economic and social fields.
She pointed out that the members of the National Council have held leadership positions in external representation, including the presidency of the Arab Parliament, representation of the Arab Group in the Executive Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, membership of the Executive Committee of the Union of Member States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, In various organs and committees of various regional and international parliamentary federations and organizations.
At the beginning of 2015, the Council had submitted an integrated proposal on the Women's Document prepared by the Arab Parliament. Several proposals had been adopted by the Division and the Council had proposed to amend the Rules of Procedure of the Inter-Parliamentary Union since 1999 at the 101st Session in Brussels, Article 22 (23), which relates to the identification of categories of observers in IPU meetings, rights and duties, has been amended.
In the end of her speech, HE Azza Suleiman addressed the success of the proposals of the Parliamentary Division of the Council regarding the establishment of the Gulf Parliamentary Information Network and the establishment of the Islamic Parliament. The 9th Conference of the Council of Member States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Announced the establishment of the Islamic Parliament.Noting that one of the most prominent successes achieved by the UAE Parliamentary Division in the field of combating terrorism was during its participation in the activities of the 10th Conference of the Union of Member States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, held in Istanbul in January 2015. Terrorism and extremism.
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https://www.uaeu.ac.ae/ar/news/2018/march/support_teahcing.shtml
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