* Cabinet also approves draft law on combating conflict of interest, refers it to Shura
The Cabinet Wednesday approved a draft Amiri decision to establish Doha University for Science and Technology, Qatar News Agency reported.
It also approved a draft law on combating conflict of interest and referred it to the Shura Council.
The developments came at the Cabinet's regular meeting chaired by HE the Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz al-Thani at the Amiri Diwan.
Following the meeting, HE the Minister of Justice and Acting Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Dr Issa bin Saad al-Jafali al-Nuaimi issued a statement giving the details of the proceedings.
The proposed university aims to provide Qatar with specialists, technicians and experts by preparing specialised cadres, with qualifications of all degrees, trained in academic, applied, technical and professional sectors in areas that meet the needs of society, government agencies, institutions and various sectors.
The activities of Doha University for Science and Technology are meant to achieve the goals of human, social and economic development in the country, and to achieve its objectives. The university shall approve and grant the appropriate degrees and certificates in accordance with the provisions of this resolution.
The Cabinet also approved a draft law on combating conflict of interest and referred it to the Shura Council.
The draft law included, among its provisions, defining the employee as every person who occupies a position or a job, whether permanently or temporarily, in one of the bodies to which the provisions of this law apply, and whoever is entrusted by the court to carry out a mission of arbitrators, experts and bankruptcy administrators, liquidators and judicial guards, as the case may be.
The definition of a conflict of interest is any situation in which an employee or a person associated with him has a material or moral interest that conflicts or is likely to conflict with the duties or responsibilities of his position or job, including his commitment to integrity, impartiality, and the preservation of public money and the public interest.
As a preventive measure the employee must, according to the provisions of the draft law, disclose cases that may lead to a conflict of interest when occupying the position or position, by completing the disclosure form prepared for this purpose, and submitting it to the department or unit concerned with legal affairs or its representative in the entity to which it belongs.
Undersecretaries of the ministry and those of their ranks shall submit the aforementioned disclosure form to the ministers they report to. Ministers and those of their ranks shall submit the aforementioned disclosure form to HE the Prime Minister.
Cases of conflict of interest where the employee is prohibited from doing any act or behaviour, or making a decision, related to an act of his job or position, or abstaining from it, if it constitutes or results in a conflict of interest.
As part of mechanisms to combat conflict of interest, the employee must, in the event of any conflict of interest, disclose it immediately, and prevent any harm to the public interest, and in this he may waive the interest that results in the conflict or leave the position or public position he occupies. The employee may be dismissed, transferred or suspended from work, as the case may be.
It also approved a draft law on combating conflict of interest and referred it to the Shura Council.
The developments came at the Cabinet's regular meeting chaired by HE the Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz al-Thani at the Amiri Diwan.
Following the meeting, HE the Minister of Justice and Acting Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Dr Issa bin Saad al-Jafali al-Nuaimi issued a statement giving the details of the proceedings.
The proposed university aims to provide Qatar with specialists, technicians and experts by preparing specialised cadres, with qualifications of all degrees, trained in academic, applied, technical and professional sectors in areas that meet the needs of society, government agencies, institutions and various sectors.
The activities of Doha University for Science and Technology are meant to achieve the goals of human, social and economic development in the country, and to achieve its objectives. The university shall approve and grant the appropriate degrees and certificates in accordance with the provisions of this resolution.
The Cabinet also approved a draft law on combating conflict of interest and referred it to the Shura Council.
The draft law included, among its provisions, defining the employee as every person who occupies a position or a job, whether permanently or temporarily, in one of the bodies to which the provisions of this law apply, and whoever is entrusted by the court to carry out a mission of arbitrators, experts and bankruptcy administrators, liquidators and judicial guards, as the case may be.
The definition of a conflict of interest is any situation in which an employee or a person associated with him has a material or moral interest that conflicts or is likely to conflict with the duties or responsibilities of his position or job, including his commitment to integrity, impartiality, and the preservation of public money and the public interest.
As a preventive measure the employee must, according to the provisions of the draft law, disclose cases that may lead to a conflict of interest when occupying the position or position, by completing the disclosure form prepared for this purpose, and submitting it to the department or unit concerned with legal affairs or its representative in the entity to which it belongs.
Undersecretaries of the ministry and those of their ranks shall submit the aforementioned disclosure form to the ministers they report to. Ministers and those of their ranks shall submit the aforementioned disclosure form to HE the Prime Minister.
Cases of conflict of interest where the employee is prohibited from doing any act or behaviour, or making a decision, related to an act of his job or position, or abstaining from it, if it constitutes or results in a conflict of interest.
As part of mechanisms to combat conflict of interest, the employee must, in the event of any conflict of interest, disclose it immediately, and prevent any harm to the public interest, and in this he may waive the interest that results in the conflict or leave the position or public position he occupies. The employee may be dismissed, transferred or suspended from work, as the case may be.
