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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS | 21 SPORT | 30 Qatar keeps Al Attiyah cynosure its contracts of all eyes as Qatar dispute-free Rally flags off THURSDAY 4 FEBRUARY 2016 • 25 Rabia II 1437 • Volume 20 • Number 6696 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Sheikh Jassim meets Saudi King Ministry to Towing charges increase waste management for seized plant capacity By Raynald C Rivera vehicles raised The Peninsula DOHA: The Ministry of Munici- pality and Environment plans to old law had provisions for towing expand the Domestic Solid Waste charges and fines. Management Centre (DSWMC) Ministry of Interior The new law (No. 16 of 2015) gave upping its capacity from 2,300 can auction off the Ministry of Interior the author- to 5,300 tonnes of waste a day, as seized vehicles if ity to fix towing charges for seized well as build another centre with vehicles. The Department of Traffic a capacity of 3,000 tonnes a day. not claimed in works under the Ministry of Interior. “Now we have some stud- three months So, the Ministry submitted a pro- ies and proposals to expand the posal to the State Cabinet to raise existing plant to upgrade it from rates and fines in the form of a draft the current 2,300 tonnes a day decision. The Cabinet, at its routine capacity to 5,300 tonnes to take us weekly meeting yesterday, approved to 2022 with full capacity. Within The Peninsula the Interior Ministry’s draft decision, three to four years, we will have Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported. another one in the north with a The ministry seizes cars for capacity of 3,000 tonnes for us various reasons, including faulty to achieve QNV 2030 with sus- DOHA: The Ministry of Interior has parking, faulty overtaking, abandon- tainable environment. This is our increased towing charges for vehi- ing a car for long in a public place plan,” said Safar Mubarak Al Shafi, cles seized for violations. or breaking other provisions of the Director of General Cleanliness The charges have been raised to traffic law. Such vehicles are towed Project, Mechanical Equipment QR500 for bigger vehicles weigh- by the ministry using a special auto- Department and Waste Treatment ing three tonnes (when empty) mobile and taken to traffic impound Center at the Ministry of Munici- and above, and to QR200 for light yards of which there are several in pality and Environment. vehicles. the country. According to the 2015 Al Shafi was talking to media- The fine for not claiming a seized law, a seized car must be claimed persons on the sidelines of the vehicle is being raised to QR20 per by its owner within three months. sixth Waste Management and day from QR15. The towing charges, The fine for letting the car Recycling Summit which opened according to the old traffic law (of remain in the traffic police impound yesterday at InterContinental Doha 2007), were QR200 for larger vehi- yard will now be QR20 per day. The City. Like its predecessor, cles (three tonnes and above) and The new law (No. 16 of 2015) also Personal Representative of Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, H H Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad the new waste treatment facility QR150 for light vehicles (under three gives the Interior Ministry the right Al Thani, with Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi being planned, he said, would be tonnes). to auction off a seized vehicle if not Arabia yesterday. Deputising for the Emir, his Personal Representative attended the inauguration designed in keeping with the most The old traffic law (No. 19 of claimed within three months. ceremony of the 30th edition of the Jenadriyah Heritage and Cultural Festival in Saudi Arabia. The advanced technology in the world. 2007) was amended and came into festival was inaugurated by King Salman. force last year. Article 89 of the → Continued on page 7 → Continued on page 7 Economic zones to allow unrestricted repatriation of profits and capitals The Peninsula Zones Company) 50 years’ concession related to companies, customs or to develop, maintain and manage the licensing, will apply to such busi- economic zones. nesses. The licensing of a business All types of businesses will be to be set up in an economic zone will DOHA: The economic zones Qatar allowed to be set up in an economic be single-window and solely done by is developing will allow investors — zone. Manateq. nationals or foreigners, individuals or They can be proprietorships The draft law has been framed corporations — unrestricted repatri- or partnership firms or any other by the board of directors of Manateq, ation of profits and capital abroad. types of companies or business enti- which will be given the authority to A law is on the anvil which will ties, says the draft law which was develop, maintain and manage one regulate the company which will approved by the State Cabinet at its or many economic zones and fix the develop, maintain and run the special routine weekly meeting yesterday, boundaries of a zone. economic zones and specify regula- reports Qatar News Agency (QNA). It will also have the authority to tions about the businesses to be set Special rules will apply to busi- develop its own, or link to existing up in these zones. nesses operating from the economic ports, whether they are seaports, The draft law, which once effec- zones and no other national law or airports or land check posts, QNA tive, will give Manateq (the Economic regulations whatsoever, whether added. Egypt court overturns death penalty for 149 pro-Islamists AFP criticised internationally, as the ouster, including six who were con- government cracked down on sup- victed of belonging to an Islamist porters of ousted Islamist president militant group. CAIRO: An Egyptian appeals court Mohamed Mursi. The military overthrow of Mursi, overturned yesterday death sen- The court had also sentenced the country’s first freely elected pres- tences for 149 pro-Islamists accused 37 people to death in absentia, but ident, ushered in the worst domestic of killing policemen in a mob attack they would have to hand themselves bloodshed in the country’s modern on their station, a judicial source said. in for a retrial. The grounds for the history. The court ordered a retrial for the appeals court ruling were not imme- Mursi ruled for only a year, deeply defendants over the attack, which diately available, but the court has dividing the country, and his removal killed 13 policemen near Cairo on overturned hundreds of death sen- was met with escalating protests by August 14, 2013, the day police shot tences over the past year, to the relief Islamists that police dispersed with dead hundreds of Islamist demon- of rights advocates and frustration of live ammunition. strators in the capital. some in the government who have On August 14, 2013, less than two The initial ruling in February urged fast track executions. months after his overthrow, police 2015 came amid a series of death Seven people have been executed broke up two protest camps in Cairo, sentences in mass trials that were for political violence since Mursi’s killing about 700 protesters. HOME THURSDAY 4 FEBRUARY 2016 03 Kuwait Emir meets Sheikha Moza in London Premier meets Chubu president Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday met Japanese Chubu Electric Power Company President and Representative Director Satoru Katsuno and his delegation. Qatar to observe World Emir of Kuwait H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah yesterday met H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Founder and Chairperson, Education Above All Foundation (EAA), on the sidelines of the ‘Supporting Syria and the Region’ conference in London yesterday. Talks dealt with the conference Cancer Day 2016 today agenda, including education of Syrian refugee children. Sheikha Moza highlighted EAA’s role in supporting access to quality primary education for millions of children across the globe in areas of conflict, including Syrian children who have missed out on learning due to the ongoing conflict. Kuwaiti The Peninsula Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al Khalid Al Sabah was present. between healthcare partners and or educating themselves on the signs Pic: AR Al-Baker organisations. and symptoms of cancer, for example. “Everyone can play a part in Another proactive way in which beating cancer — from partners in the public can mark the day is to DOHA: Qatar will today join millions the National Cancer Programme make a pledge to take up breast and around the world to mark World Can- developing processes and services bowel cancer screening. cer Day 2016. to facilitate prevention, early detec- ‘Screen for Life’ programme pro- RAF unveils portal to help students The day will be marked by the tion and diagnosis, treatment and motes education and awareness of Ministry of Public Health, Hamad long-term transitions to the pub- benefits of early detection of can- Medical Corporation (HMC) and the lic who make a decision every day cer in Qatar and aims to save lives The Peninsula have been assigned to reply student “We will soon issue a complete Primary Health Care Corporation about their lifestyles. Together we can by encouraging women aged 45 and queries online. guideline in Arabic for students (PHCC). This year’s theme ‘We Can – I ensure no one feels alone or unsup- above with no symptoms to book ‘RAF Platform’ is accessible on seeking admission and scholarship Can’ underlines the fact that everyone ported after a cancer diagnosis. We breast cancer screening through a http://www.raf-minha.com/.