Qatar's cabinet holds regular session

HE the Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani presided over the Cabinet's regular session held today at the Emiri Diwan.

After the meeting HE the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud stated the following: At the outset of the meeting the Cabinet welcomed United Nation Security Council Resolution 2216 on Yemen passed under Chapter Seven of the UN Charter.

The Cabinet considered the resolution as an important step towards the support of legitimacy, restoring security and stability in Yemen and maintaining the interests and national unity of its brotherly people.

The Cabinet, afterwards, discussed topics tabled on the agenda as follows: Took necessary measures for the issuance of a draft law enacting the commercial company law after the cabinet took note of the Advisory Council's recommendation on the draft law.

The draft law was issued to cope with new developments in the field of investment and to work for the simplifying and facilitating procedures related to the establishment of commercial companies through the one window system for finalizing the procedures of establishing companies and issuance of the required licenses by representing all related bodies in one place and applying the international standards upon which states are classified with regard to the easy start and practice of business to help upgrade the classification of the State of Qatar and the attraction of more investments in the state.

The draft law includes the general rules of commercial companies, their types, transfer, integration, division, expiry and control over these companies, especially with regard to a public joint stock company, establishment procedures, share subscription, its board of directors and remuneration of board members, the company's general assembly and its functions and the company capital.

The Cabinet took necessary measures for the issuance of a draft law regulating organ transplant after taking note of the Advisory Council's recommendation on the draft law.

As per the draft law, no organ, tissues or cells shall be transplanted from a living person to another living person except for a necessity required to save the recipient's life or to attain a medical treatment necessity provided that the transplant will be the sole means for meeting this necessity and that such transplant will not pose a severe danger to the donor's life or health.

The person shall have full illegibility to donate or leave a will for donating one or more organ, tissues or cells of his body as per a written declaration witnessed by two fully eligible witnesses.

In all cases transplant of organs, tissues or cells shall be operated only by specialists after the conduction of the necessary medical examinations and the approval of the Medical Ethics Committee, set up by a health minister decision for each hospital licensed to carry out transplant operations.

No human organ, part of it, tissues or cells shall be sold, purchased or otherwise got for a compensation of any nature. Inviting, advertising, promoting or brokering in such matters is also prohibited.

Transplant of any organ, tissues or cells from a living person, even under his consent, is prohibited if such transplant will cause his death or cause one of the natural functions of his body to dysfunction permanently.

Approved a draft Emiri decision amending some provisions of Emiri decision No 15 of 2014 regulating the Cabinet.

According to the draft law provisions a the Government Liaison Office, which will affiliate to the Prime Minister, shall be established. The decision is to determine the functions of the office and a decision regulating it, is to be issued by the Prime Minister.

Approved a draft Memorandum of Understanding between Qatar Authority for Standards and Specifications and the US - international examination and materials society.

The Cabinet reviewed a letter by HE the Minister of Justice on the outcome of the Global Law Summit on the occasion of the passage of 800 years after Magna Carta Charter was agreed (London - February 2015) and took the appropriate decision thereon.