'Made in Qatar' Seminar Discusses Commercial Outlets Law, Commercial Registration

Doha, May 21 (QNA) - Qatar International Center for Conciliation and Arbitration (QICCA) organized a seminar on the sidelines of the 'Made in Qatar' exhibition under the title 'commercial outlets law and commercial registration'. The seminar, which was held in collaboration with the Qatar University's Faculty of Law and the Qatari Lawyers Association, is part of a series of seminars organized on the margins of the expo.     The seminar, chaired by secretary of the Qatari Lawyers Association Mohamed Ahmed Al Ansari and attended by HE QICCA Secretary General Sheikh Thani bin Ali bin Saud Al-Thani, addressed developments in the commercial registration law in Qatar, in accordance with the amendments in Law No. 20 of 2014 which amended Law No. 25 of 2005 on the commercial registration. It highlighted the importance of the commercial registration and the registration provisions in accordance with the law, in addition to the effects of registration in the commercial registration and its crimes and reconciliation.     Assistant professor of commercial law at the Qatar University's Faculty of Law Dr Nazzal Kiswani, and assistant professor of commercial law at the Qatar University's Faculty of Law Dr Mohammed Salem Abu Faraj gave lectures during the seminar.     Al Ansari said that the commercial outlets law aims to regulate all the provisions relating to commercial, industrial and public outlets and street vendors, in addition to issues related to commercial licenses and the exercise of related activities, adding that the law seeks to simplify and facilitate the special procedures for granting business licenses for all commercial and industrial outlets as well as street vendors.     He added that the new Law has 34 articles regulating all provisions relating to commercial, industrial and public outlets and street vendors, pointing out that it transferred all powers from the Ministry of Municipal and Agriculture to the Ministry of Economy and Trade. It also gave the powers to the Minister of Economy and Trade to issue regulations and decisions to enforce the law, he said. (QNA)