Next Tuesday, the Federal National Council will discuss a federal draft law on consumer protection, which includes 36 articles aimed at raising awareness of consumer rights and obligations, and ensuring the safety and quality of products, in addition to the penalties prescribed for violators of its provisions, while the session witnesses seven parliamentary questions from Council members, including Four questions for the Minister of Human Resources and Emiratisation, Nasser bin Thani Al Hamli, the most prominent of which is a question about employment fairs, and another about «preserving the rights of national employees working in the private sector», and three questions for the Minister of Economy, Engineer Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansoori.
In detail, the Federal National Council will hold its twelfth session for the first regular session of the seventeenth legislative session, next Tuesday, "remotely" headed by Speaker of the Council, Saqr Ghobash, which is devoted to discussing a federal draft law on consumer protection, in the presence of a number of ministers and government representatives.
The session witnesses seven questions from members of the Council addressed to government representatives, including four questions for the Minister of Human Resources and Emiratisation, Nasser bin Thani Al Hamli, the first from the Council member, Nasser Muhammad Al Yamahi, about "job fairs", and the second from member Hamid Ali Al Abbar Al Shamsi, about " Preserving the rights of civil servants working in the private sector, ”and the third of the member, Kifah Muhammad Al-Zaabi, on“ psychological and criminal safety of support service workers ”, while the council member, Sabreen Hassan Al-Yamahi, asked the fourth question to Al-Hamli about“ the flexibility of working in the private sector for female employees Current conditions related to coronavirus prevention. ”
Meanwhile, the Minister of Economy, Engineer Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansoori, receives three parliamentary questions, as member Dirar Hamid Balhoul Al Falasi asks the Minister (in his capacity as Chairman of the Emirates Authority for Standardization and Metrology) about “reducing the use of hydrogenated oils in the food industries to protect the consumer”, and member Obaid also asks Khalfan al-Ghoul al-Salami asked Mansouri, in his capacity as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Securities and Commodities Authority, about "protecting financial markets during crises".
The Council concludes the question item with a question from the First Vice-President of the Council, Hamad Ahmed Al-Rahoumi, to the Minister of Economy, on “setting a lower price for the shares of some consumer cooperative societies”.
During the session, the council will see a letter issued on the request for approval to discuss the topic of "the Federal Youth Foundation policy", as well as the report of the council's financial, economic and industrial affairs committee on the federal draft law on consumer protection, before discussing and approving the draft law.
According to the final report adopted by the Committee on Financial, Economic and Industrial Affairs, the federal bill on consumer protection achieves five main goals, which include "obtaining the correct information about the goods that the consumer buys or uses or the service received, and educating and educating the consumer about his economic rights and obligations, and consumer practice His rights to choose the most appropriate product and service available in the markets, according to his desires, the quality of the good and the service and obtain them at the declared price, and to preserve the health and safety of the consumer when obtaining the commodity or receiving the service, without harming him when using the commodity or receiving the service ».
5 chapters .. and 36 articles
The Consumer Protection Bill contains five chapters divided into 36 articles, which dealt with definitions of some of the words and phrases contained within the draft law, in addition to stating the objectives and scope of the law, the Higher Committee for Consumer Protection, provisions related to the obligations of the provider, advertiser and commercial agent, and what are prohibited from them, and provisions related to protection Consumer rights, provisions related to penalties imposed for violating the provisions of the law, final provisions related to reconciliation of conditions, repeal of provisions that violate the law, grievance, judicial seizure, and issuance of the executive regulations of the law.
- members of the National «» 7 direct parliamentary questions to the Ministers of Economy and «» resettlement.