EU supports Vietnam in adopting better management of packaging waste 12:17 | 04/02/2021
The European Union cooperates with the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) and other stakeholders to take steps towards efficient plastic waste management in Vietnam to reduce marine plastic litter.
Rui Ludovino, first counsellor at the Delegation of the EU to Vietnam, shared his thoughts about packaging management in Vietnam
The information was stressed at a consultation workshop on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Plastic Packaging co-hosted by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE), the EU and Expertise France on January 20 in Ho Chi Minh City. The principle of EPR mechanism is outlined in the revised Law on Environmental Protection (LEP) in Vietnam.
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On November 3, 2020, Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Aal Thani announced that in October 2021, for the first time in Qatari history, elections would be held for the Qatari Shura Council, or parliament. This is not the first time parliamentary elections have been announced in Qatar. This already happened once during the reign of the present emir, in 2017, and several times during the reign of the previous emir, his father Hamad bin Khalifa Aal Thani; in all these cases the elections were subsequently postponed.
The emir made the announcement in a speech at the opening of the parliament s 49th session. He said: The preparations for the parliamentary elections have almost reached their conclusion, and they will be held next October, if Allah wills it, in accordance with the constitution, which was ratified 18 years ago in a 2003 referendum and published in 2004. Thus, an important step was taken to strengthen Qatar s tradition of
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KUWAIT CITY, Jan 23: The official spokesperson of the Public Authority for Disabled Affairs (PADA) and the Director of the Legal Affairs Department Mubarak Al-Baddah says the authority has referred some employees to the Public Prosecution Office for investigation regarding unlawful disbursement of money, reports Aljarida daily.
Clarifying that these sums were disbursed to rehabilitative and educational bodies in violation of the law and without implementing the regulations issued in this regard, he said some Kuwaiti and expatriate employees of the authority have been referred for investigation, after their involvement in the incident was proven.
Al-Baddah said the referral came after it became clear to the Legal Affairs Department that the incident may constitute a suspicion of facilitating the seizure of public funds, stressing that this step comes in implementation of the state’s laws aimed at preserving public funds and confronting attempts to waste it.
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KUWAIT CITY, Jan 12: The Secretariat General of the National Assembly has categorically denied the rumor that the Assembly pays an expatriate consultant a salary of KD10,000 with other privileges such as a house near the sea and a car. According to the Secretariat General, the consultant’s salary is much lower than the rumored amount and he was not granted a house or a car. It affirmed the concerned authorities are monitoring the salaries of employees at the Assembly, adding that the nationalization of jobs in the legislature is ongoing and has reached 91 percent so far. It then appealed to the media to verify information prior to publication and obtain information only from official sources.
01 Jan 2021 - 4:05
Sidi Mohamed | The Peninsula
The upcoming Shura Council will have full legislative and supervisory authority over the government. The goal of electing members of the new Shura Council is to enhance effective popular participation in managing the country’s affairs and making decisions, a senior official at the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said yesterday. “The elections for Shura Council which will be held in October this year represent a qualitative leap in Qatar’s development process.
The Council can summon Ministers, including the Prime Minister, can dismiss ministers, monitor the government’s financial management and approve the budget,” said Brigadier Salim Saqr Al Muraikhi, Director of Legal Affairs Department at the Ministry of Interior. In November last year, Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani announced that the elections for Shura Council will be held in October this year, 2021.