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Shura Council discusses draft law on mortgaging movable funds  18 Jan 2021 - 12:31 QNA Doha: The Shura Council held its regular weekly meeting on Monday under the chairmanship of HE the Speaker Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud. At the beginning of the meeting, the Council discussed a draft law on mortgaging movable funds. The draft law includes 9 chapters and 49 articles, which aims to give companies and individuals the opportunity to acquire bank loans guaranteed by mortgaged movables...

China is expanding its efforts to develop the southern Hainan island into a globally significant free trade port by creating an enabling business climate and facilitating investment.

1. Background A draft law on measures relating to information and communication infrastructures of national interest and the conditions for the implementation of 5G networks (the " Draft Law") was launched on August 4, 2020 for public consultation by the Ministry of Transportation, Infrastructure and Communications and slightly revised on September 2, 2020. The Draft Law purports to regulate the authorisation of manufacturers of technologies, equipment and software for 5G networks (collectively...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: After struggling with developing a national-level data privacy law for over a decade, the National People’s Congress of People’s Republic of China released the draft Personal Information Protection Law (Draft Law) on October 21, 2020. The Draft Law was open for public comments for almost a month and is likely to be adopted as is. Once issued, the Personal Information Protection Law will be the first national-level law on data pr...

Spain: New tax measures to end 2020 The Spanish government has presented two bills to Congress, under which it will introduce rises in a wide range of taxes. These are the bill on Measures to Prevent and Combat Tax Fraud and the bill on the National Budget. In brief The Spanish government has presented two bills to Congress, under which it will introduce rises in a wide range of taxes. These are the  bill on Measures to Prevent and Combat Tax Fraud and the bill on the National Budget. Contents...

The Senate of the Republic of Kazakhstan has approved the Draft Law on amending the Labour Code on December 3, 2020, and its adoption is expected at the beginning of 2021. Currently, Kazakh legislation does not regulate contract services for providing personnel (e.g. outstaffing). The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection has stated that the lack of regulation in this area led to numerous violations of the rights of the provided personnel. As a result, the legislative body decided to equal...

Access Now 21 December 2020 | 2:29 pm Dear Members of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, We, the undersigned organisations, are writing to express our deep concern regarding the provisions contained within the draft Law on Combating Cybercrimes, which was reintroduced before the Iraqi Council of Representatives on November 23, 2020. We are particularly concerned by the draft law’s criminalisation of vaguely defined acts and its use of overly broad terms. Such ambiguous language ...

Insiders hope the government will promulgate the law next year. The 57 senators unanimously approved the bill at the 6th Senate Session on December 21 after the bill was greenlit at a Cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Hun Sen early in September. Government securities are a vital financial tool for governments to raise financing from the domestic private sector and from abroad for socio-economic development, according to the minutes of the meeting. The final version of the draft b...

Draft Law on Census Adopted by European Affairs Committee The Draft Law on Census was adopted on Thursday in first reading by the European Affairs Committee. The document regulates the issues of organisations, institutions in charge of the process, and questions on the census material. Deputy Justice Minister Agim Nuhiu said there would be columns concerning national and religious affiliation, adding that citizens abroad whose stay didn’t exceed one year would be covered. VMRO-DPMNE’s MPs c...

Political-corporate nexus It is not every day that one needs a doctor, a lawyer, a policemen or a priest, but everyday, three times a day, you need a farmer. Farmers are not a homogenous community. There are caste and class differences because, among land-owning farmers, the socio-economic spectrum of farmers is huge. At one end are wealthy, university-educated farmers with large land-holdings, who are also traders or aggregators, own agri-based industries, have political clout (sometimes as M...