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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Tuesday 3 December 2013 29 Moharram 1435 - Volume 18 Number 5902 Price: QR2 RasGas marks Doha Goals incident-free to begin next work hours week Business | 17 Sport | 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir meets Iran FM Al Mazrouah Private sector yard to sell fish, poultry DOHA: Fresh fish from Qatari will get access waters and locally produced chicken and egg, apart from vegetables, will be sold at low prices at the Al Mazrouah yard in Umm Salal, which will open to state labs on Thursday for the new har- vest season. The market was set up last year by the Ministry of Environment Companies can get products tested to help Qatari farmers sell their products directly to the custom- DOHA: State-run laboratories to testing the ingredients of prod- ers at reasonable prices, without that test gold, toys, building ucts. “Once we open our doors to intervention of middlemen. materials and electrical appli- the private sector, our services The market attracted a large ances, among other things, for would prove to be of much help to number of customers last year, quality assurance will soon open them,” Al Rumaihi said. including restaurants, groceries, their doors to the private sector. Private companies are large supermarkets, and vegetable sup- The laboratories presently run importers and depend on quality pliers. More than 35,000 people quality checks on the above and certification for products issued in visited the yard last year and other materials such as asphalt, the countries of their origin. The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif about 170,000 cartons of vegeta- soil and marble only for the Al Rumaihi said all the labo- and his delegation yesterday. Talks dealt with relations and matters of mutual concern. bles from the local farms were government. ratories work in close coordina- sold, according to figures released Their purpose is to make sure tion with the state consumer by the ministry. that all goods imported or pro- rights watchdog, the Consumer Inspired by the success of the duced locally meet Qatari stand- Protection Department (CPD) experiment, the ministry has ards and specifications. of the Ministry of Economy and expanded the facility this year The government has decided to Commerce. Shura nod for military draft law and added separate outlets for make the services of these labo- “The CPD regularly sends us fresh fish, livestock and locally ratories available to the private samples of various products col- DOHA: The Advisory Council As is the practice, the draft should be made and the service produced poultry products, Qatar sector for a fee so that private lected by its inspectors from the has urged the government to was referred to it by the State should be compulsory for all News Agency reported yesterday. companies can get any material local market and we run quality enforce a proposed law to make Cabinet. Qatar News Agency who fall within the targeted age The market will be open tested for quality. checks,” said the official. brief military service compul- (QNA) reported that the pro- group. three days a week — Thursday, “We are presently busy fixing Plans are afoot to set up three sory for all young male Qataris, posed law could see the light of The Ministry of Defence will Friday and Saturday — from this fee slabs for the various tests,” more laboratories — to test without any exemption. day this very year. inform the concerned person to Thursday until the end of the har- said Saleh Al Rumaihi, Director of edible oil, textiles, and cosmetic Once passed, the law is to be Once enforced, the legisla- report to it within 60 days. It has vest season. Sales will take place Laboratory Affairs at the Ministry products. implemented on an experimen- tion will apply to all Qatari men been recommended that employed from 7am until 5pm on all days. of Environment. Al Rumaihi said as for setting tal basis and its impact is to be aged between 18 and 35 years. Qataris should continue to receive There will be 32 stalls selling Qatar currently has eight labo- up a laboratory for cosmetic assessed with feedback taken Graduates will need to do the their salaries and other benefits vegetables, with addition of 10 ratories, all under the Ministry of products, plans were in the final from people. compulsory service for three during the period of service, stalls from last year. Environment, that specialise in stages. “The legal aspects have The Council has recommended months, while the duration will which should be counted in their The ministry is expecting testing various materials, includ- been taken care of. We are now that those who refuse to undergo be four months for all others. length of service. healthy competition among ing precious metals. looking into financial and techni- military training be denied jobs Exceptions are to be made in The draft suggests that the farmers, which could result in There are laboratories to check cal aspects and the training of in order to force them to fall in the case of sons of defence per- government could, in the event low prices. It has also taken asphalt, building materials, soil staff.” line. sonnel or prisoners of war or of war or any other emergency, measures to ensure the quality and marble, electrical and house- These will be referral laborato- The Council, at its weekly those whose fathers are missing, ask those who have done the com- of the products through proper hold appliances, chemicals and ries for Qatar and the other GCC meeting yesterday, approved the QNA said. pulsory service to be in an active display and packaging. children’s toys as well. states, according to the official. draft compulsory military service The Council has said in its rec- force for 10 years. Continued on page 6 One laboratory is solely devoted THE PENINSULA law unanimously after discussion. ommendations that no exceptions THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA Delivery by mini-drone Special panel for UN evidence on Syria war private schools DOHA: A special commit- crimes implicates Assad tee has been set up under the Supreme Education Council GENEVA: Evidence collected named Assad or any other offi- (SEC) to study applications by UN investigators probing cials publicly. related to establishment of Syrian war crimes implicates They have compiled secret lists new private schools as well as President Bashar Al Assad, of suspects and handed them to increase in school fees. United Nations human rights Pillay for safe storage, in hope The committee will also oversee chief Navi Pillay said yesterday. that one day suspects will face procedures for licensing of new Pillay later denied having trial for violations including tor- private schools and study prob- direct knowledge of their secret ture and mass killings. lems and issues related to private list of suspects, but her reveal- “They point to the fact that the schools. ing remarks about the head of evidence indicates responsibility The Minister of Education has state were at odds with a policy at the highest level of govern- issued a decision setting up three of keeping the identity of alleged ment, including the head of state,” special committees under the perpetrators under wraps pend- Pillay told a news conference. SEC, a local Arabic daily reported ing any judicial process. But Pillay said even she can- yesterday. The UN investigators, who col- not unseal the confidential lists, The other two committees lect testimony in utmost secrecy and insisted she was only repeat- will deal with issues related to and independently from Pillay, ing what the investigators led by Independent schools’ staff and have previously said the evidence Brazilian expert Paulo Pinheiro the establishment and manage- A flying “octocopter” mini-drone that would be used by Amazon to fly small packages to consumers. Jeff points to the highest levels of had said. ment of Independent schools, Bezos, CEO of the US online retail giant, said yesterday he hopes to soon deploy an armada of mini-drones Syria’s government, but have not REUTERS respectively. able to drop small packages at your doorstep. Protesters dig in heels in Ukraine KIEV: Ukrainian protesters June 18 was hottest, Jan 23 coldest last year blockaded government build- ings and camped on Kiev’s DOHA: June 18 was the hot- Environment Statistics Report The highest daily average tem- average) the average annual con- However, salinity in central central square yesterday, seek- test day in Doha last year with 2013, lessons learnt and data perature observed in Qatar was centration of PM2.5 was seven Qatar shows an increasing trend. ing to oust President Viktor a maximum temperature of 47.7 shortcomings”, presented the in July 2000, at 49.6 degrees C. times higher at Movenpick, 11 The most recent calculation of Yanukovych after police bru- degrees Celsius, and the coldest ministry’s second environment In 2012, the highest average times higher at Qatar University the overall groundwater balance tality and a row over EU ties day of the year was January 23, statistics workshop. monthly relative humidity was and eight times higher at Aspire shows an annual overexploita- plunged the country into its with 8.6 degrees C, according to Extreme temperatures of 45 observed in Doha, with 88 per- Zone in 2012. tion of 108.04 million m3 per year worst political crisis in a decade. data released by the Ministry degrees C and more are most cent in January and December. In Concentrations of sulphur (2012).