Harvest 2024.. The UAE is keeping pace with the present and anticipating the future with a proactive legislative system

During the year 2024, the UAE continued to modernize its legislative system to keep pace with current requirements and tomorrow’s changes, according to a mechanism that ensures facilitation of regulations and implementation requirements, abbreviation of procedures, and clarification of roles and powers.

The set of laws issued in the UAE during the current year embodied the approach of proactive legislation for future fields and emerging technology, and also supported the path of transformation to a flexible legislative framework whose impact society feels on services in the field, and enhances government development efforts in all sectors.

In 2024, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State, “may God protect him,” issued the federal decree regarding the formation of the “International Humanitarian Affairs Council,” which is responsible for supervising all issues and matters related to international humanitarian affairs.

His Highness also issued a federal decree establishing the “Zayed Humanitarian Legacy Foundation,” in commemoration of the legacy of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, “may God rest his soul,” and the continued efforts of state symbols in humanitarian, charitable, and development work.

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State, may God protect him, issued a federal decree establishing the Emirates International Aid Agency, which is affiliated with the International Humanitarian Affairs Council, has an independent legal personality, and has full legal capacity to act.

His Highness also issued a federal decree law amending some provisions of the federal decree law regarding the federal judicial authority. The most prominent amendments included determining the rank of both the President of the Federal Supreme Court and the Attorney General of the Federation, to the rank of minister.

The government of the United Arab Emirates issued a federal decree law regarding the organization of penal and correctional institutions, specifying the controls for the construction of federal penal and correctional institutions in the country, the controls for placing an inmate in a penal and correctional institution, the rights of a pretrial inmate to communicate and meet his lawyer in accordance with specific controls, and the right of a foreign inmate in pretrial detention to Communicating with his embassy, ​​diplomatic mission, or the entity that takes care of his interests in the country, and confirming the rights of the inmate while he is there, The areas of health and social care for inmates and their education and education.

The UAE government also issued a federal decree law amending some provisions of the federal decree law regarding combating money laundering crimes, combating the financing of terrorism, and financing illegal organizations.

The amendments included the establishment of the National Committee to Combat Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism and the Financing of Illegal Organizations, and its formation shall be issued by a decision of the Council of Ministers.

The UAE government issued a federal decree law amending some provisions of the federal decree law regarding regulating labor relations.

The amendments included imposing a fine of not less than 100 thousand dirhams and not more than one million dirhams on anyone who employed a worker who was not authorized to work for him, or brought or used a worker and left him without working, or used work permits for a purpose other than the purpose for which they were issued, or closed. An establishment or whose activity was suspended without taking procedures to settle workers’ rights in violation of the provisions of the new decree, its executive regulations, and the decisions issued in implementation thereof, or he employed a juvenile with it in violation of its provisions, as well as everyone who agreed to employ the juvenile. In violation of its provisions, those who have guardianship or guardianship over the juvenile.

The Council of Ministers adopted a decision approving the issuance of a federal law regarding combating communicable diseases, and a decision regarding the executive regulations of the federal decree law regarding financial reorganization and bankruptcy. It also adopted a decision regarding the executive regulations of the federal decree law regarding maritime law.
The Council agreed to issue a decision regarding the unified list of violations and administrative fines imposed on violators of measures to combat money laundering and combat the financing of terrorism.

It is worth noting that the Council of Ministers launched this year the “Implementation of UAE Laws” index, and also approved the launch of the UAE Legislation Platform, which comes within the national plan to develop and modernize legislation in the country.