The Federal National Council will resume its dogmatic activities today, after a 63-day "precautionary" stopover in line with the preventive measures taken by the state to counter the spread of the new Corona virus, where it will hold its seventh session of the first regular session of the 17th legislative term, "remotely" via technology " Video conferencing.
According to a new agenda for the seventh session, the council replaced the discussion of a federal draft law on cooperatives, with a discussion of another federal law on witness protection, for reasons that a parliamentary source referred to «Emirates Today», due to the difficulty of discussing and approving the cooperative law “from a distance”, because it It includes 98 articles, in addition to the need for more discussion and interventions.
For the first time in the date of the meeting of the council, today’s session will not witness the presence of all members of the council in the “Zayed Hall” designated for hosting public sessions, given that the session was held through a special television circle, “Video Conference”, provided that attendance at the council’s headquarters is limited to the president of the council and the secretariat General, Chairman and members of the Defense, Interior and Foreign Affairs Committee, and any of the members who wish to participate in presence, in addition to a limited number of media representatives.
The source emphasized that the members of the Council discussed the mechanism for discussing the cooperatives bill, during a trial session held two weeks ago, but they faced some difficulties, including the large number of articles of the law as well as differences in visions about some of the articles, especially those relating to quotas for the purchase of foreigners and residents from cooperative societies, which were identified by the draft The law has a maximum of 20% of its total market value.
According to the agenda of today's session, the Council is discussing a federal draft law on witness protection, which provides protection for both the “witness, his family, the victim and his family, the notifier and his family, the expert and his family, the secret source and his family, the person whose life or safety may be at risk because of his close relationship to the covered With protection, and finally whoever decides to protect him. ”