ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Gulf Cup: Qatar set for Saudi Arabia clash Sport | 28 Thursday 13 November 2014 • 20 Muharram 1436 • Volume 19 Number 6248 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 New licensing Emir, Brazil President hold talks rules for shops, eateries likely Ministry licence to be mandatory DOHA: A law is on the anvil in 1975. Law Number 3 (of 1975), that will make it manda- Al Zaman said, regulates com- tory for all shops, eateries and mercial and industrial shops. even vendors to be licensed by Vendors were not included in the Ministry of Economy and this law (No 3 of 1975) which Commerce. vests all licensing and monitoring Currently, shops and the eater- authority with the municipalities ies are licensed by the municipal- concerned. “The new law is the ity of the area where they are need of the hour since businesses located. have expanded vastly in the past The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Brazil President Dilma Rousseff held talks at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. The two sides agreed And vendors are not included 39 years, with the immense rise in to set up a joint committee to promote cooperation in all fields. The Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani was present. in the law that presently regulates population,” said the lawyer. the licensing and operation of the New businesses like bouquet above businesses. and mobile phone shops, giant The economy ministry’s licence shopping malls and hypermar- will, understandably, be aside kets, among others, have sprung from the one that is presently up in the past four decades. “This Plan to set up issued by the municipalities. The makes it necessary that a new law draft of the law is ready and seeks is enforced to regulate them,” said Whopping QR200m offered for to make the licensing process and Al Zaman. unified GCC monitoring stricter for all shops, He said it is likely the munici- eating outlets and vendors. pality and the economy ministries police force Currently, complaints are will install a joint database of the fancy car number in auction galore that many commercial retail businesses since both will DOHA: A meeting of senior establishments carry out busi- be licensing authorities. DOHA: Easy-to-remember been bid for car registration The last bidder, it has been officials of the GCC ministries nesses for which they are not Currently, no such database mobile phone and car registra- number 333355. Until yester- announced by the Traffic of interior held in Kuwait yes- licensed. “There are cases where for joint licensing and monitor- t ion nu mb er s h ave b e c ome s uch day, the highest bidding for this Department, will be given an terday endorsed the proposed someone has a licence for a café ing exists. a craze among citizens that number was QR400,000 less additional 15 minutes when the GCC security pact and agreed but he is operating a massage cen- It is also likely that medical one of several special car num- than QR200m. auction ends at 10 o’clock tonight. on a proposal to set up a unified tre,” said prominent lawyer, Yusuf clinics, and engineering, auditors’ bers being auctioned online Bidders, as per rules, are Winners of the auction should police force for the region. Al Zaman. and law offices, among others, by the Traffic Department required to make a deposit of report to the Traffic Department The proposals will be tabled at Such irregularities will be will also have to seek additional has attracted a bid of a mind- QR20,000 ($5,492) as earnest within a given timeframe after the meeting of the GCC ministers curbed when the new law comes licensing from the economy min- boggling QR200m, or $54.92m money for taking part in the the online process has ended to of interior to be held in Kuwait into effect, Al Zaman told this istry under the new law. “It is (QR200,394,000). online auction and quoting their pay cash and collect the number. at the end of this month, Qatar newspaper as the State Cabinet because, after all, they are com- Since last Tuesday, the Traffic bid amounts. Some of the easy-to-remem- News Agency reported yesterday, approved the draft law at its mercial activities so they need to Department has been holding Bidding was to start from ber car registration numbers quoting Brig Haza Al Hajri, assist- weekly meeting yesterday, QNA be also licenced by the economy online auction for 19 special car QR100,000 and the auction is being auctioned include 353535, ant secretary-general for security reported. ministry,” said Al Zaman. numbers. The bidding ends at 10 being held through the Metrash 363636, 373737 and 333377, affairs at the GCC secretariat. The proposed law will replace THE PENINSULA pm today. 2 service of the Ministry of among others. Talking to the media after the one that was passed 39 years ago, Continued on page 6 The amount of QR200m has Interior. THE PENINSULA undersecretary level meeting, Al Hajri said that the GCC secu- rity pact has been approved and endorsed by the member coun- tries. Commenting on the security situation in the region, he said Europe makes “we have a pact to combat ter- US, China in historic rorism and it will be implemented space history whenever needed.” He added that the situation BERLIN/FRANKFURT: is stable and the GCC security The European Space Agency climate change deal agencies are closely monitoring (ESA) landed a probe on a the developments. There is also comet yesterday, a first in space BEIJING: The United States and China yesterday announced regular exchange of information exploration and the climax of a ambitious targets on greenhouse gas emissions as part of a “his- related to terrorism. decade-long mission to examine toric” pact that climate scientists acclaimed but US Republicans The meeting also discussed a up close the remnants of the denounced as a job-killer. proposal to connect the control birth of Earth’s solar system. At a Beijing summit, the leaders of the world’s two biggest polluters rooms of the GCC ministries The 100kg lander — virtually put their stamp on attempts to breathe new life into action against of interior through a common weightless on the comet’s sur- global warming ahead of international talks in Paris next year. network. The next undersecre- face — touched down on schedule US President Barack Obama said the joint announcement on the tary level meeting will be held in at about 1600 GMT after a seven- two countries’ emissions targets was a “historic agreement” and a Qatar, QNA reported. hour descent from spacecraft “major milestone in the US-China relationship”. Chinese President THE PENINSULA Rosetta around 300 million miles Xi Jinping said the two had “agreed to make sure that international from Earth. Scientists hope that climate change negotiations will reach an agreement in Paris”. FIFA ethics chief to samples from the surface of 67P/ Attempts to deal with climate change, which scientists warn is Churyumov-Gerasimenko will help Andrea Accomazzo (right), Spacecraft Operations Manager of the European approaching a potentially catastrophic point of no return, have long make 2018, 2022 show how planets and life are cre- Space Operations Centre and seen on a video projection behind a model been stymied by the unwillingness of the United States and China to ated as the rock and ice that make of the Philae lander, reacts after the successful landing of the Philae lander work together on the problem. But China set a target for its green- statement today up comets preserve organic mol- on comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko, at the European Space Agency’s house gas output to peak “around 2030”, which Obama commended as ecules like a time-capsule. a commitment to “slow, peak and reverse the course” of its emissions. PARIS: FIFA Ethics chief Hans- headquarters in Darmstadt. REUTERS And Obama, who faces scepticism as well as outright denial about Joachim Eckert will make a climate change in the US Congress, set a goal for the United States public statement today over the to cut its own emissions of greenhouse gases by 26-28 percent from inquiry into the controversies 2005 levels by 2025. “We have a special responsibility to lead the plaguing the bidding processes worldwide effort against climate change,” Obama said at a joint news for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. conference with Xi. AFP The author of the report, former Sisi issues decree to Attacks damage Palestinian US federal prosecutor Michael Garcia has long campaigned for repatriate prisoners mosque, Israeli synagogue QR250,000 stolen from car the details to be made public as MGHAYR, WEST BANK: A Palestinian concerns rocket over allegations of CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi mosque and an Israeli synagogue were damaged DOHA: Cash worth QR250,000 ($68,653) was stolen from the car corruption in the two events being issued a decree yesterday allowing him to repatri- in separate arson attacks, police and local resi- of a Qatari which was parked outside the government service cen- staged by Russia and Qatar. ate foreign prisoners in Egypt, state media said, a dents said yesterday, causing no casualties but tre in Al Rayyan yesterday. “Chairman of the Ethics move that could enable the release of an Al Jazeera stoking tensions. The victim had withdrawn the cash from the bank and kept it in his Committee’s adjudicatory chamber journalist now serving a seven-year jail term.